2015-2016 Undergraduate Academic Catalogue [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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HS 345 - The Peoples of Early America (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. Explores the peoples and cultures of early America (1550-1775). Examines how encounters, conflicts, and compromises between Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans shaped the development of colonial society. IU
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HS 346 - Revolutionary America (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. The social, economic, and political causes and consequences of the American Revolution are explored. The course is divided into three parts. The first investigates the events leading up to the Declaration of Independence. The second analyzes the social experience of war for different groups in American society and examines the new governments established at both the state and national levels. The third traces the transformations wrought (and not wrought) by the Revolution in American society and politics. Traditional lectures are occasionally given, but the bulk of class time is spent discussing the readings and documents as well as the ideas and arguments in them. GT/IU
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HS 347 - Our Rights: A History of Civil and Human Rights Law in America (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. Examines the legal history of civil and human rights in America, from the colonial period through the present. Students explore the social, economic, and political forces that influenced significant cases such as Brown v. Board of Education and Roe v. Wade, and analyze how decisions in those cases shaped subsequent legal and social discourse. Students interpret Supreme Court opinions, identify recurring tensions in American legal history, and analyze these tensions in various aspects of present day civil and human rights law controversies. GT
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HS 348 - The Civil War and Reconstruction (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. This course is divided into three parts. The first asks what forces led to the American Civil War. The second examines various aspects of life during the war years. And the final part considers how the nation "reconstructed" itself in the postwar years. Students should recognize that relatively little time is devoted to military history. IU
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HS 349 - Baltimore: Its History and Architecture (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. An examination of the history of Baltimore since its foundation in 1727: its growth as a center of trade and industry, its tumultuous nineteenth-century politics, and especially its industrial decline and unexpected revival in the twentieth century. The city's historic buildings and neighborhoods are the principal focus of the course, and students are encouraged to leave campus to study them. Novels and feature films about Baltimore are also used to study the city's history. Same course as AH 349 . IU
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HS 350 - World War II in America (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. The roots of contemporary American society took hold during the turbulent years of World War II. Examines the images of America and its enemies in popular culture, issues of race at home and abroad, changing experiences for workers and women, and the transformation of the economy, government, and foreign policy of the United States. IU
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HS 351 - American Urban Culture: A Tale of Four Cities (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. Students explore the growth of cultural institutions in four American cities-Baltimore, Boston, New York, and Philadelphia-in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. For much of the time under consideration, the elite and the citizenry in each of these cities competed to establish exemplary cultural institutions that would be emulated-or envied-by other cities. Early urban planning, religious edifices, monuments, parks, museums and libraries, and department stores are among the topics considered. Same course as AH 351 . IU
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HS 352 - America Since 1945: The Cold War Years (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. Examines two vital threads in post-World War II American history: our evolving international role and the rapidly changing society at home. At one level, it tries to make sense of a bewildering series of important events, including: the Cold War, McCarthyism, the Civil Rights Movement, the War on Poverty, the Vietnam War, the Peace Movement, the sixties counterculture, feminism, Watergate, and supply-side economics. At another level, it asks how these critical events-and broader demographic trends such as the baby boom and suburbanization-touched everyday Americans. How did life for the "person on the street" change during this tumultuous period? IU
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HS 353 - History of Violence in America (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. Violence has been a salient feature in America's past and present and portends to play a major role in the future. We can observe the history of violence from the invasion of the Americas; to the Puritans' exclusivity; to the legal and social subjugation of Africans into chattel slavery; to the rise and near fall of urban centers; to and through revolutionary and civil wars; to the chemical destruction of the physical environment at home and abroad; to a steady contemporary diet of enactments of violence in Hollywood films, television cartoons, comic strips, music videos, art exhibits, popular literature, etc.; and to the present revelation of the high incidence of violence in American families. This course increases students' understanding of the subtle dimensions and roots of violence and also enables them to determine alternatives and solutions to violent thought and acts in American society. IFS/IU
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HS 356 - American Art: Art for a Democracy (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. Although American artists looked to European models for their inspiration, their art consistently reflected the complexities of American culture. In America, English aristocratic portraits were transformed into Puritan celebrations of hard-earned and therefore, well-deserved wealth; American architects responded to the practical demands of climate and materials at hand; painters of American life glorified the wilderness even as it was disappearing; the democratic process was both glorified and satirized. Examines the American response to European art as it was assimilated and transformed by American artists from the seventeenth century to the Great Depression. Same course as AH 318 . IU
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HS 358 - African American History through the Civil War (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. Surveys the history of African Americans from the African Atlantic Diaspora to the end of the Civil War. Critical topics discussed include place, identity, memory, and the myriad ways in which African Americans created a sense of community. The course canvases the national landscape to see African Americans in states of freedom and enslavement, in the North and in the South, in cities and on plantations, in the "big house" and "in the field," and as skilled artisans and unskilled laborers. At all times students are poised to consider the degree to which African Americans possessed "agency" and how they used it to construct strategies of survival. IAF/IU
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HS 359 - African American History through Film (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. Explores major themes in African American history through the medium of film, supplemented by critical readings and primary sources. Students are introduced to significant developments, pivotal questions, and notable individuals who have contributed to the shape of the nation's history, society, and diverse culture. Representations of history and ideological content are examined, as well as the artistic techniques employed in historical films. GT/IAF/IF/IU
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HS 360 - African American History Since Emancipation (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. The second half of the African American history survey introducing the major themes, events, people, and activities of African Americans in America from the Emancipation Proclamation (1863) to the present. Special attention is given to Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow; the Great Migration north and west; the evolution of African American leadership and political organizations; the Harlem Renaissance; the Black Power movement and the struggle for civil rights into the twenty-first century; and the black military experiences. As an interdisciplinary course, it lays a foundation for additional study of the centrality of African Americans in American history or any related discipline. In a given semester, this course may be structured topically with more emphasis on law, music, politics, gender or regionalism. IAF/IU
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HS 361 - Merchants and Farmers, Planters and Slaves: The Roots of American Business, 1600-1850 (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. Surveys the development and structure of the U.S. economy and its business enterprise from the country's formation through the advent of the industrial revolution and the railroad, focusing on such questions as: What was the framework of the economy of the American colonies and what impact did independence have on it? What were the major forces for change in the U.S. economy, 1600-1850? What patterns, if any, did that change assume? How, in turn, did the alterations influence the organization and operation of the U.S. economy? What impact did economic transformation have on American society by the 1950s? IU
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HS 363 - A Century of Diplomacy: United States Foreign Policy Since 1890 (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. A study of modern American foreign policy. Topics include imperial expansion in the 1890s, World Wars I and II, the Cold War, Korea, Vietnam, interventions in Central America, and the rise of a new international order. Covers: how American culture and politics influence foreign policy decisions and why the United States seeks peace in Europe, dominates Central America, and commits blunders in Asia. GT/IU
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HS 366 - The Civil Rights Crusade (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. Examines the black struggle for equality in America from disfranchisement in the 1890s through the turbulent 1960s and 1970s. Emphasizes the institutional and cultural barriers to racial equality in both North and South, and the organized means by which black Americans and white sympathizers challenged them. IAF/IU
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HS 367 - Black Women in the Atlantic World (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. Black women have a rich history worth exploring, and this analysis highlights their activities and contributions within the family, the workforce, and the black community. Historical themes address black women's roles in areas like religion, education, and politics and in reform movements like abolition, women's rights, civil rights, women's liberation, and abortion rights. Examines black women's organizations like the Council of Negro Women and the Women's Political Council, as well as the achievements of such notable women as Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Mary McLedd Bethune, Ida Wells- Barnett, Rosa Parks, and Barbara Jordan. IAF/IG/IU
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HS 368 - The Atlantic World: Readings, Approaches, and Explorations (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. Introduces, surveys, and interrogates the concept of the Atlantic World commonly used today in the study of American history and culture and in global studies. The movement and intersection of peoples, ideas, economies, and cultures are considered. Territories, borders, and regions that have contributed to the construction of the Atlantic World paradigm are also studied. GT/IU
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HS 370 - The Jesuits in Asia Since 1542 (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. Examines the history of the Society of Jesus in its four main Asian provinces prior to the Society's suppression and since its reemergence to the present day. Provides background concerning the origins of this religious group in Europe and its spread worldwide. GT/IA/IC
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HS 371 - East Asia in the Modern World (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. A study of the four countries that make up the East Asian cultural sphere (China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam), from roughly the mid-eighteenth century-when traditional cultures and civilizations were in full play-to the present-when all East Asian countries except North Korea have experienced the world's fastest growing economies. GT/IA
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HS 372 - The Vietnam War through Film and Literature (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. Documentary and feature film, autobiography, oral history, documents, and works of literature are used to probe the following themes: the origins, course, and historical meaning of the war; the antiwar movement and the home front; the clash of cultural values between East Asia and the West; and ethical and psychological issues raised by the experience of war. GT/IA/IF/IU
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HS 373 - Africa: Past and Present (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. Focusing on Africa south of the Sahara, this survey explores selected themes in African history from the eighth through the twentieth centuries, including the emergence of African states and long distance trade; the organization and impact of the trans-Atlantic slave trade; European conquest and colonization; social/economic change during the colonial period; the rise of nationalism and the struggle for independence; and finally, development and underdevelopment in contemporary Africa. Considers issues of change and continuity in African societies, as well as the differential impact of social and economic change on women and people of different socioeconomic groups. GT/IAF
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HS 374 - East Asia on Film (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. A study of crucial aspects of the twentieth-century history and culture of China and Japan through film. In addition to examining how some major historical events and episodes are treated, the course focuses especially on the complex relationship between modern China and tradition and on the roles of context and culture in shaping human history. GT/IA/IF
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HS 375 - Indian History, Culture, and Religion through Film (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. Cinema is a powerful medium for describing the history and culture of a people. Given its antiquity and varied cultural and religious life, India can be well understood through popular films made in its many distinct languages, particularly Hindi, Telugu, and Tamil. Times, people, and traditions come alive and lead to a deep involvement of the viewer with issues that could not have come to the fore except through the medium of film. This course covers films made in India and on India over the last hundred years. GT/IA/IF
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HS 376 - Memories of Nagasaki and Hiroshima (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS100-level course. Presents a history of the memories--personal and collective, local and national--of the atomic bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima in August 1945. By looking at primary and secondary literature, art, and film, the course places the experiences of the survivors at the center of an exploration of the historical, cultural, and political contexts of postwar Japan that shaped the memories and narratives of the bombings. GT/IA
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HS 377 - History of Modern China (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. Discusses important social, political, economic, and cultural events during the modern period of Chinese history, from the reign of the first Ch'ing emperor to that of the current Chinese Communist leader, Deng Xiaoping. Integrates lectures, discussion, movies, a short library project, and other assignments to foster an interest in Chinese history and culture. Several short papers; midterm and final examinations. GT/IA
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HS 378 - History of Modern Japan (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. Examines modern Japanese history and the relationship between Japan's past and its role as a major nation today. Illuminates distinctive patterns of Japanese society and their influence on modernization, characteristics of Japanese cultural identity vis-a-vis the West, and key factors in Japan's current economic success. Short papers and exams. GT/IA
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HS 379 - Latin America and the United States Since Independence (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. Traces the development of political, economic, and cultural relations between the Latin American nations and the United States, particularly as seen from the south. Examines crises, misunderstandings, and stereotypes from both sides. Considers themes such as cultural exchange, intervention, Pan-Americanism, the Cold War, drug trafficking, and globalism. GT/IL
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HS 380 - History of South Asia in the Twentieth Century (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. Focuses principally on India and to a lesser extent her immediate yet important neighbors-Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Burma. Deals with issues like the freedom struggle against the foreign rule of the British, French, and Portuguese; the growth of nationalism and political parties; social emancipation; the presence of stalwarts like Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Muhammad Jinnah; the role of religions and religious activity; the Partition of 1947; economic growth; foreign policy; technological progress; and the growing South Asian cultural and literary world. GT/IA
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HS 381 - Search for the Divine: Hindu, Christian, Muslim, and Buddhist Ways in India (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. Down the ages, men and women belonging to the Hindu, Christian, Muslim, and Buddhist faiths in India have searched for the Divine in myriad ways. This course presents a picture of this search woven around the lives, prayer, and writings of a significant number of Divine seekers. While showing the uniqueness of this unfolding search in the lives of individuals of different faiths, the course also points to its far reaching influence and attraction for people everywhere. GT/IA/IC
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HS 382 - Crime and Punishment in Latin America (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. Crime, punishment, and the laws that define them are examined to provide a window onto the history of class, ethnic, and gender relations in Latin America. Courtrooms-and the documents they generate-are exceedingly important for historians writing about laboring classes, women, indigenous peoples, Africans, and other marginalized groups. Through books, articles, films, and primary sources, students study how laws and crime have shaped people's understandings of politics, morality, and social relationships. Understanding the factors that bring people into contact with the law, as well as their perceptions of it, will elucidate how racism, sexism, and poverty determine people's paths to crime. In turn, deconstructing laws and social norms will elucidate some of the ways governments and elites maintain power. As the relationship between laws, crime, and power is reconceptualized, students may begin to rethink how they study the past. GT/IFS/IL
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HS 383 - The Cross and the Sword: Christianity and the Making of Colonial Latin America (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. Examines the Catholic Church, a central institution in the colonization and development of Latin America. The Church became integral to colonial Latin America's social, economic, intellectual, and political life. Discusses why missionaries succeeded while others became martyrs. Why were Jesuits simultaneously defenders of Indians yet owners of plantations? Why were Jesuits expelled from Latin America and other religious orders not? Also discusses Protestant and Jewish colonists and examines native religions on their own terms. GT/IC/IL
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HS 384 - Modern Latin America (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. Covers Latin American history from independence in the nineteenth century to the present. Examines the impact of modernization, growth of political instability, neocolonialism, and U.S.-Latin American relations with an emphasis on Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Andean and Central American republics, and Cuba. GT/IL
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HS 385 - The History of Mexico (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. A general survey of Mexican history that introduces the cultural, economic, political, and social factors that have shaped Mexico from the pre-Columbian era to the present. Topics include pre-Columbian civilizations and their cultural contributions through architecture and fine arts; the Spanish conquest; colonial New Spain; race, class, and gender in Mexican society; wars of independence and nation building; foreign invasions by the United States and France; the age of Porfirio Diaz; the Revolution of 1910; the modernization of Mexico; and U.S.-Mexico relations. IL
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HS 386 - Soldiers and Guerrillas in Modern Latin America (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. Covers Latin America's military from the man on horseback to the modern authoritarian state. Surveys the differing roles the military has played and continues to play in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, the Andean States, and Central America. Also examines the interplay between the American military and Latin American military establishments. Investigates problems urban guerrillas, terrorism, and East-West rivalries have caused for the region. GT/IL
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HS 387 - Topics in Latin American History (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. An investigation into a specific cultural, economic, or political aspect of Latin American history. May be country specific (such as Mexico) or cover larger geographic areas. GT
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HS 388 - Conquest and Colonization in Africa: 1884-1965 (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. In the late nineteenth century, European powers divided Africa among themselves, putting down resistance and establishing colonies that served as sources of raw materials, labor, and markets for European goods. It was not until the nationalist period after World War II that Africans were able to regain their independence. Explores the dynamics of conquest, colonization, and resistance to colonial rule in Africa. GT/IAF
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HS 389 - Women and Social Change in Modern Africa (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. Analyzes the impact of social, economic, and political change on women in modern Africa. In particular, it explores the differential impact of colonization, wage labor, and cash crop production on women and men, which resulted in new forms of exploitation as well as opportunity. Women's innovative response to opportunity, their resistance to negative social change, and their role in nationalist movements and postindependence societies are also considered. Readings include life histories and women's novels as well as academic studies. GT/IAF/IG
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HS 390 - Gender and Sexuality in Latin America (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS100-level course. Examines how the role of gender and sexuality in Latin American societies, cultures, economies, and religions has changed over time. Using sources such as books, articles, videos, images, oral histories, and primary documents, the course investigates the history of gender and sexuality with a particular emphasis on deconstructing such socially constructed binaries as femininity/masculinity, male/female, and homosexuality/heterosexuality. The course also focuses on the ways class, ethnicity, race, age, religion, and other identities affect men's and women's realities. Gender and sexuality provide fresh perspectives on the ways the past is reconstructed. GT/IG/IL
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HS 391 - History of the Jesuits (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. From its inception in Europe in 1540, the Society of Jesus made an indelible mark on the history of the church and also on the political, educational, and cultural life of the world. From an initial group of seven members under the leadership of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, the group grew in numbers and influence world wide, reaching an all time high of 36,000 in 1965. This course deals with the work and lives of Jesuits in Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Australia. It explores their spiritual legacy; their contribution to the growth of the faith; and their humanitarian, educational, and cultural appeal. The problems they encountered in the course of their operations are also discussed. Suppressed by the Papacy once for 41 years, persecuted in various parts of the world, and beset in recent years by a downturn in vocations, the Society of Jesus continues to be a vibrant force in church and world history. IA/IC
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HS 392 - Introduction to Latin American and Latino Studies (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. A study of Latin America and Latino issues in the United States, with history and culture being of primary concern to determine how identities and nations are constructed and how they interact with each other. Students are encouraged to view these diverse realities through the lens of their major discipline. Closed to students who have taken ML 392 . GT/IL
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HS 393 - The Making of the Modern Middle East (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. An introduction to the history of the modern Middle East that examines the political, economic, social, and cultural institutions and forces that have most profoundly affected the region in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The emphasis throughout is on identifying the ways in which specific events and long-term processes have informed social and political reality in the contemporary Middle East. Study is focused on a number of significant political, social, economic, and cultural developments and movements, including (but not limited to) the rise and formation of modern nation states; the role of imperialist and colonial powers in the region; the emergence of nationalism; regional conflicts; the rise of Islamism; and the evolution of ethnic, class, and gender identities. Class meetings consist of lectures, discussions, and the occasional film screening. GT
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HS 400 - History Methods (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. Examines both the tools historians use and the problems they have to solve. These issues are approached within a thematic and a regional context, combining an investigation of such variant sources as oral histories, personal memoirs, government documents, iconography, and film with the types of history that can be written using them. Despite the course's 400-level designation, it is especially designed and recommended for sophomore history majors for use in their subsequent courses. Students who belatedly declare the history major are urged to take the course as soon as possible since it must be completed before taking a seminar.
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HS 401 - Intensive Independent Study I (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. Permits a student to do close and vigorous study on a historical topic not available in the regular curriculum. Heavy reading/writing will normally be required, but precise definition of subject and specification of assignments will be determined by consultation between the instructor and student. Written or electronic permission of the instructor and department chair.
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HS 402 - Intensive Independent Study II (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course, HS 401 . Permits further independent work by a student who has completed HS 401 . Written or electronic permission of the instructor and department chair.
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HS 403 - History Honors I (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. An optional program available to select senior history majors by department invitation in their junior year. It aims to provide intensive research and writing on a precisely defined thesis topic in order to complete a sustained study of high quality. Written or electronic permission of the instructor and department chair. The yearlong thesis project consists of two courses, HS 403 and HS 404 , which run consecutively.
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HS 404 - History Honors II (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. A continuation of HS 403 . Written or electronic permission of the instructor and department chair.
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HS 405 - History Internship (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. The Baltimore area supports many agencies and museums concerned with historical study. As well as learning about the historical documents, collections, and buildings managed by these organizations, history interns have the opportunity to gain work experience in the community. Students work with the instructor to choose and carry out unpaid internship projects supervised by professional staff at the Baltimore City Life Museums, the Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore's two art museums, the Office of Urban Archaeology, The Commission on Historic and Architectural Preservation, and other local historical agencies. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. (Fall/Spring)
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HS 406 - Transatlantic Slave Sites: Study Tour (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. Before and after enslaved Africans were transported to the New World, Africans were transported and sold in the Old World. This course includes tutorials and on-site learning, research, and discussion of historic locations throughout the Atlantic World that functioned as key ports in the transatlantic trade in African peoples and in slave-produced goods. It bears witness to "traces" of the African presence from the past and makes observations of distinct African-diasporic communities that exist today. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. Additional costs may be incurred. IAF/IU
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HS 410 - Special Topics: The Crusades (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. Students examine the Crusades, beginning with the efforts by western Europeans to assist the Byzantine Empire to defend its borders against Middle Eastern Islamic enemies. Those efforts set the stage for centuries of warfare between European crusader forces and Islamic forces for control of the Holy Lands. Students study the early history of the Crusades, from both the Christian and non-Christian view, as well as their effect on the early modern and modern history of the world. A significant research paper is required. IM
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HS 411 - Special Topics: The Second World War (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. Students examine the history of the Second World War and particularly military strategy and combat in both European and Asian theatres of war. Students confront historical controversies over appeasement, the Holocaust, and the decision to drop the atom bomb. The course also deals with memorials to the war and its combatants. A significant research paper is required.
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HS 412 - Gods and Monsters: An Iconography of Nineteenth-Century Europe (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. Studies individuals whose careers mirrored and shaped the intellectual terrain of nineteenth-century Europe. Among these are "Chinese Gordon," hero of the Battle of Khartoum; Florence Nightingale, "savior" of the Crimean War; and Oscar Wilde, poster boy for the decadent art movement. These individuals are analyzed in the context of the most powerful critiques of nineteenth-century assumptions, those of Marx, Darwin, Freud, and Nietzsche.
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HS 413 - Medieval Military History (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. The Middle Ages was a bellicose era. From the Germanic invasions to the Hundred Years War, from the Vikings to the Crusaders, the Middle Ages seems to have been made up of one major conflict followed by another. Traces the history of warfare throughout the Middle Ages as well as covering medieval strategy, tactics, combatants, technology, diplomacy, the role of religion, and the effects on nonmilitary society. IM
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HS 414 - Women in Europe (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. Introduces the many roles of women in European society from the 1600s to the 1950s. Uses women's autobiographies, novels, and letters as well as recent theoretical scholarship. Defines how women, of both elite and popular cultures, perceived themselves and were perceived by men. GT/IG
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HS 415 - Scientists and Psychics: Victorian Science and the Boundaries of Belief (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. This examination of late nineteenth century Victorian science explores both the assumptions upon which physics and psychics based their research, as well as the cultural milieu which provided such a fertile field for both sets of investigations-often performed by the same individuals. The discoveries of Sir William Crookes, Sir Oliver Lodge, and Dr. Anna Kingsford serve as the focus for a detailed study of the mutability of "facts" within the context of science as it developed in fin-de-siècle Britain.
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HS 418 - Mussolini and Fascist Italy (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. Genius/buffoon, hero/villain, revolutionary/reactionary-these are only a few of the dichotomous labels attached to Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1943 and founder of the modern political conception of totalitarianism. Similar controversy surrounds his regime, which was originally hailed by many in Europe as an exciting new "third way" which eliminated the excesses of both capitalism and communism. This course looks carefully at how Mussolini came to power, what he really managed to accomplish, and why he came to such an inglorious end-lost in the wake of Hitler and his Nazi juggernaut. II
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HS 420 - Homer and History (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. Was there a Trojan War? What is the relation of Homer's epic Iliad to historical events of the Bronze Age Aegean? What was its impact on the Greek world of the Geometric Era (the most likely period for the composition of the Homeric poems), a lively period of expansion, colonization, trade, and the rise of the nation-state of the polis. Investigates Homer's effect both on contemporary Greek national identity and later Greeks' understanding and deliberate construction of their own past. Interdisciplinary approach combining literary texts, archaeology, and secondary historical analysis. Same course as CL 420 .
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HS 421 - Caesar and Augustus (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. They transformed a great republic into a monarchy; killed (literally) millions of people; conquered a huge chunk of the Mediterranean World and Europe; carried out one of the greatest urban renewal projects in history; revived and transformed religion; revised the calendar; inspired Shakespeare, Shaw, and dozens of movies. And yet, the one wound up assassinated by his peers, and the other had so little control over his own family that he felt compelled to exile his jet-set daughter to the Roman equivalent of Siberia. Who were they? And how did the epochal events of their lifetime give birth to such genius monsters? Same course as CL 421 . II
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HS 423 - Disasters in American History (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. Examines American history through the lens of disasters. Disasters offer a unique perspective from which to examine social, political, and economic structures and institutions. Explores disasters at various points in U.S. history in an effort to understand how these calamities have affected events; how the impact and understanding of disasters have changed over time; and ultimately, to provide a window onto the changing nature of American society over the past 200 years. IU
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HS 424 - Race, Place, and Memory in American History (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. This diverse course examines the relationships between race, place, and the role of memory in American history and culture. It starts with an understanding of the discourse and ideology of race; traces this thought from its roots in European expansion; and examines how it has remained central to the founding, settling, and structuring of communities and their economic development. The course emphasizes the relationship between diverse places and America's peoples, and it looks closely at how places have served as powerful sites where collective memory and racial, ethnic, and national identities are produced, constructed, and experienced. Topics include patterns of social exclusion, desegregation, immigration, environmental justice, cultural geography, heritage tourism, preservation and memorialization, as well as burial rights and property disputes. IAF/IU
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HS 425 - Modern American Social Movements (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. Examines popular movements to alter the political, cultural, or social structure of the United States in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Topics include temperance reform, women's rights, Populism, Progressivism, the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s, 1930s radicalism, anticommunism, the Civil Rights Movement, the New Left, and the Counterculture. IU
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HS 426 - Propaganda, Culture, and American Society: 1780-1830 (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. An engagement in popular history and culture from 1780 to 1830, a period commonly known as the Early Republic or the New Nation. It examines a wide range of sources (newspapers and magazines, posters, memoirs, sermons, art, ads, and literature) which reflect the major issues of this period, such as the Constitution; American westward expansion; the "Indian problem"; industrialization and the market revolution; transcendentalism; immigration and the making of the working class; as well as the role of race and gender in the formation of an American character. It also addresses the process of opinion repetition, the formation and function of stereotypes, and the reproduction of ideology. IU
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HS 427 - The Era of Good Stealings? Gilded Age America, 1865-1900 (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. Examines the transformation of the United States into an urban, industrial society during the rowdy, rambunctious, and sometimes raw period between the end of the Civil War and the turn of the century. Focuses on the complex interplay between the country's rural, agrarian heritage and the impact of such new forces on the experiment with an active federal government in Reconstruction, the implementation of an industrial revolution, the rise of an industrial proletariat, waves of large-scale immigration, the development of the big city, western expansion and the closing of the frontier, and growing farmer discontent. IU
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HS 428 - The Making of the Early Republic: A Study of Race, Place, and Ideology (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. This course begins with the Constitution and goes to 1830. Using a diverse collection of materials (primary documents and secondary sources), this course emphasizes the relationship between race and place in the early republic years. It also shows how a nationalist ideology was central to the social structuring as well as the political, industrial and economic development and expansion of postrevolutionary American towns and cities. IAF/IU
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HS 440 - Special Topics in Latin American and Latino Studies (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. An intensive investigation into a specific aspect of Latin American history, politics, or culture. Topic announced each time the course is offered. GT/IL
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HS 442 - Health and Illness in Latin America (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS100-level course, one HS300-level course. Traditional medical history has emphasized the march of science and the ideas of the "great doctors" that were assumed to have led to the improvement in medical care and the "conquering" of disease. More recently, historians have looked to other complex explanations to explore the relationship between health care systems and societies. This course looks beyond just medical care to the social, cultural, environmental, and economic factors that have shaped the development of the priorities, institutions, and personnel in the health-care system in the Americas. It examines these relationships through the lenses of gender, race, sexuality, science, and class. GT/IL
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HS 443 - Apartheid and Its Demise in South Africa (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. Examines the origins of the South African apartheid system from Dutch settlement in the seventeenth century through British conquest in the nineteenth century, to the electoral victory of the Afrikaner Nationalist Party in 1948. Explores apartheid's demise, beginning with the elite-based African nationalist parties of the 1910s, campaigns of mass civil disobedience of the 1950s, Black Consciousness movement of the 1970s, and mass democratic movements of the 1980s. Issues of race, class, and gender are prominently featured. Readings and research assignments stress a wide range of primary as well as secondary sources. GT/IAF
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HS 444 - War and Revolution: East Asia, 1937-1954 (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. Examines the tumultuous years in the four countries of East Asia: China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Through readings and film, the course looks at World War II, the occupation of Japan, the Chinese communist revolution, the Vietnamese revolution, the Cold War, the Indochina War, and the Korean War. GT/IA
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HS 446 - Modern Latin American Cities (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. Since the late 1800s, Latin America has rapidly urbanized and now has three of the world's ten largest cities. Indeed, Latin America's urban problems have largely prefigured current American urban dilemmas. In addition to the general problems of urban history, this course given special attention to the important role foreign migration has and continues to play. Students study the historical experiences of foreign migrants to Latin America and Latin American migrants to the United States: how have those experiences differed; are there still social melting pots; and will Latin American and United States cities in the twenty-first century be more similar than different? GT/IL
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HS 448 - Women and Gender in the Middle East (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. In the Western media, Middle Eastern women are routinely portrayed as oppressed, with Islam frequently cited as the most significant source of such oppression. But, what exactly is meant by the terms "Middle Eastern women" and "Islam"? And, precisely how and to what degree are women oppressed in the region? This course provides a nuanced, historical understanding of issues related to women and gender in the Middle East and North Africa, here defined as the Arab World, Turkey, and Iran. GT/IG
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HS 449 - The Modern Middle East through Literature and Film (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. Provides a nuanced historical understanding of the political, economic, social, and cultural changes that have occurred in the modern Middle East through the lens of literature and film. Students engage in critical analysis of poems, short stories, novels, and films produced in the Middle East or about the Middle East in order to understand how the lived experiences of women and men have been affected by European colonialism; the rise of nationalism and the creation of the modern nation state; authoritarian regimes; the Palestinian-Israeli conflict; the politics of oil and U.S. hegemony in the region; the rise of Islamist movements; and the Iranian revolution. Same course as HN 449 . GT
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HS 455 - Historic Preservation (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. Historic preservation involves the ecology of our "built environment." It asks what sorts of buildings and neighborhoods contribute to our sense of community and well-being, and how these buildings and neighborhoods might be preserved for this and future generations. Preservationists have assembled an array of economic and legal tools to encourage the profitable restoration or adaptive reuse of America's most valuable buildings and neighborhoods. Contains three main elements: a study of American architectural history and styles, with field experience in "learning to look" at the built environment; consideration of recent trends in the preservation movement in the United States and in Maryland, including a trip to the annual conference of the Maryland Historic Trust; and a field exercise in architectural and community history in Baltimore.
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HS 460 - Seminar: American Progressivism (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. Focuses on the attempts of Americans to control explosive change in the early twentieth-century urbanization, the impacts of industrialization, and the troubling relationship between big business and political institutions in a democracy. Topics include the background and motivations of progressive reformers; their attempts to assimilate or coerce immigrants; and the effect of the progressive consciousness on matters of race, gender, and social class. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. IU
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HS 461 - Seminar: The African Diaspora (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. Focuses on the African background to American history. Premised upon the notion that Africa occupies a more prominent position in the study of the genesis of American culture than is usually acknowledged, the multidisciplinary course examines the structures (for example, the transatlantic slave trade) that ushered Africans to British America from the seventeenth through the early nineteenth centuries. Throughout the course, students are encouraged to sense the Africans' experiences from their point of departure to their arrival and subsequent process of enslavement in the New World. Taking into full account the Africans' role in the Americas, student are asked to reexamine and challenge the negative stereotypes that have historically perpetuated misunderstanding about peoples of African descent. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. GT/IAF
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HS 462 - Seminar: Taking Care of Business: The Evolution of American Business Leadership, 1600-1990s (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. Focuses on the changing organization and operation of American business in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Examines the changing values, activities, functions, and recruitment of businessmen during the evolution of American enterprise. Analysis is organized along three major stages of enterprise: business as personal enterprise dominated by merchants; the rise of largescale entrepreneurial enterprise in the late nineteenth century; and the development of modern-day, professionally managed business organizations. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. IU
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HS 463 - Seminar: Colonial British America (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. Focuses on the British colonies in mainland North America and the West Indies during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Particular attention is paid to three broad issues: the relationship between the physical environment and process of colonization; cultural interactions and conflicts between Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans and the influence of those relationships on the development of colonial societies; and the social and economic integration of the colonies with one another and with the broader Atlantic world during this period. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. IU
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HS 464 - Seminar: Social and Political History of Alcohol and Drugs in America (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. Psychoactive substances, both legal and illegal, have been integral components of economic, cultural, social, and political life in the United States. Focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, topics include the social and class functions of drinking and bar culture; gender and alcohol; the rise of drugs in modern culture; temperance reform; successes and failures of alcohol and narcotics regulation and prohibition; and the contradictory postwar developments of a diseased-based, therapeutic model of drug and alcohol dependency; and the popularity of alcohol and drugs in consumer society and counterculture. Written or electronic permission of the instructor.
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HS 465 - Seminar: Inside the Civil War (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. Key topics in the social and political history of the Civil War are explored with the goal of gaining deeper understanding of the human and policy dimensions of the conflict. The experience of ordinary soldiers and civilians is the center of discussion; however, specific issues that challenged Americans during the conflict are also examined. These include guerrilla warfare and relationships between soldiers and civilians in war zones; the war's impact on slavery and race; prison camps and prisoner exchanges; attitudes toward death in American culture during the war; the war's different home fronts; patriotism and resistance; government authority and its limits; gender and family life; and experience and memory. Written or electronic permission of the instructor.
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HS 470 - Seminar: The Hundred Years War (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-evel course. The Hundred Years War did more to disrupt the politics, economy, and society of continental Western Europe, thus bringing an end to the Middle Ages, than did any other event. This course follows the chronology of the war by highlighting its origin; military conflicts; effect on society, economy, ecclesiastic affairs, and politics; and conclusion. It focuses on the major players-France, England, Burgundy, the southern Low Countries-with frequent visits to the conflict's spread into the Holy Roman Empire, Italy, the Iberian Peninsula, and even into the Middle East. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. IM
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HS 472 - Seminar: Frontiers and Frontier Peoples in the Middle Ages (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. Medieval Europeans were surrounded by peoples who were not like them. Encounters between the Europeans and those living on the frontiers were frequent. They occurred for different reasons, including warfare, conversion, pilgrimage, exploration, and tourism. This seminar studies the interaction of each group separately. Frontier peoples include Germanic barbarians, Huns, Scots-Irish, Auars/Magyars, Vikings, Andalusian Muslims, Mongols, Cathars, Livonians, Hussites, Tartars, and Ottomans. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. IM
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HS 473 - Seminar: Ending Anarchy in Seventeenth-Century Europe (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. European societies were in crisis in the seventeenth century. Religious passions and political rebellions, wars, famine, and intellectual revolution threatened social order. The resolution of this turmoil produced the English parliamentary system and the French form of "absolutism"-two very different paths to stability. This seminar examines the courts of Louis XIV and other monarchs to determine how they achieved solutions to the problems of their times. It also studies the creation of cultural policies that encouraged the spread of new ideas. Written or electronic permission of the instructor.
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HS 475 - Seminar: The Persecution of the Christians in the Roman World (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. An exploration of the causes, nature, and extent of early Christian persecutions until Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire in the fourth century. Topics include the Jewish-Greek-Roman environment of early Christianity; Rome's policies toward foreign cults; Christians' reputation for extreme promiscuity and cultic atrocities; comparison with competing cults; the danger of open profession of the new faith; and Christian acceptance of the ancient world. Given the muddled understanding of the early Christian persecutions, we shall examine and dispel the myths and bring some order to the chaos. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. Same course as CL 324 . IC/IM
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HS 477 - Seminar: Legends in Medieval History (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. Perhaps no other era in history has produced as many enduring legends as the Middle Ages. Robin Hood, Arthur of Camelot, Count Dracula, Macbeth, Charlemagne, Joan of Arc, and innumerable saints all join dragons, witches, lycanthropes, and other fantastic beasts as major elements of medieval popular culture. Study of their historicity, legendary use, and effect on medieval society proves a valuable tool to understanding the intellectual history of medieval Europe. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. IM
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HS 479 - Seminar: Masculinity and Honor in Modern Europe (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. As part of the general evolution of gender studies, historians have come to realize that both male and female roles are not automatic or natural, but rather tend to be constructed by contemporary social forces. One particularly volatile or rather malleable aspect of such constructions is the notion of honor, which has substantially evolved over the last 500 years. Students examine the nature of this evolution and discusses the impact of the Renaissance, nationalism, capitalism, and liberalism on the definition of what it meant to have honor and how such rituals as knife-fighting, dueling, vendetta, and even nose-biting all served to identify and reinforce masculine behavior among classes and across centuries. Written or electronic permission of the instructor.
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HS 480 - Seminar: Cold War in Southern Africa (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. Analyzes U.S. policy toward Southern Africa from the end of World War II to the present. The overarching theme is the impact of Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union on African decolonization and nation-building. Special emphasis placed on U.S. relations with Zaire (the Congo), Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia), Namibia, and South Africa. Key issues considered include conflict and compatibility between African nationalism and decolonization and U.S. economic, military, and strategic interests; continuity and change in U.S.-African policy; options and directions for the future. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. GT/IAF
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HS 481 - Seminar: The History of Disability in Comparative Perspective (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. Students explore the history of disability in global and comparative perspective and examine how different societies across time and place, both Western and non-Western, have determined who is able and who is disabled, who is normal and who is abnormal. They focus on selected topics including deafness, blindness, madness, the eugenics programs, and the disability rights movement to understand how disability has been tied to constructions of citizenship, power, and ethics. Students visit several online disability museums and archives and work with a wide variety of primary and secondary sources. Written or electronic permission of instructor. GT
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HS 482 - Asian Studies Seminar (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. Examines the various traditions of Asia and relates them to present-day Asian life through reading, discussion, and research. Students write a final 15-20 page research paper on a topic of their choice in consultation with the instructor. Because the course also serves as the capstone seminar for the Asian Studies minor, it takes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding modern Asia. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. GT/IA
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HS 483 - Seminar: Soseki and Mishima: Mirrors of Modern Japan (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. Soseki (1867-1916) is generally regarded as the greatest novelist in Japan's modern history; Mishima (1925-1970) is recognized as one of the leading post-World War II writers. Using selected works of these authors, students focus on the authors' artistic methods and visions; reflection of the course of Japanese civilization in the twentieth century; and depiction of a culture caught in the tug-of-war between tradition and modernity. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. IA
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HS 484 - Seminar: The Chinese Revolution (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. Focuses on the social, cultural, political, and economic roots of four phases of the tumultuous twentieth-century Chinese revolution: the 1911 revolution establishing the Republic of China; the nationalist revolution of the 1920s; the Communist revolution of the 1940s; and the cultural revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. GT/IA
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HS 486 - Seminar: The Great Age of the European Reconnaissance: Travel and Discovery (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: HS 101 , one HS 300-level course. Overland and overseas travel began centuries before Columbus. Covers the conditions, motives, and goals of those Europeans who began the Great Age of Discovery by using primary accounts in English translations. Examines how Europeans and non-Europeans understood and misunderstood each other. Discusses the consequences for Europe and the societies they encountered. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. GT/IC
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HS 487 - Seminar: Comparative Revolutions in Latin America (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. A comparison of twentieth-century revolutionary movements focusing on Argentina, Brazil, Columbia, Peru, Chile, Cuba, and Central America. Rural and urban guerilla movements, the development of narcoterrorism, and the role of the United States are examined. Themes include nationalism, state formation, imperialism, agrarian reform, leadership strategies, and citizenship. The goal of the course is for students to acquire a deeper understanding of the nature of exploitation and oppression in Latin America and the continuing struggles for social justice. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. GT/IL
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HS 488 - Seminar: Political Violence and Terrorism in the Modern World (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. Political violence has been a constant feature of the twentieth and now the twenty-first century. Much of this violence has its origins in colonial people seeking political independence together with ethnic, racial, and religious minorities seeking redress from what they consider subjugation. To reach their goals, such groups have employed a variety of irregular armed strategies, variously labeled legitimate by one side but terrorism by the other. Class discussion addresses the kinds of violence independent and insurgent groups have used in seeking their goals, as well as the counter-guerrilla or counter-terrorist tactics used against them. The course begins with independence movements in Colonial Cuba, South Africa, and the Philippines. Special attention is given to post-1945 Latin America and independence movements in the French and British empires. It discusses the difference between guerrilla warfare and terrorism and ends with contemporary political and religious violence. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. GT/IL
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HS 489 - Seminar: America in the Middle East (3.00 cr.)
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. Explores the complex history of America's interaction with the Middle East, beginning with the first Barbary war fought in North Africa in 1801 and ending with the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Topics include Protestant Christian missionary activity; the American brand of orientalism; the United States' involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; the Arabian Gulf; and the politics of oil and cultural encounters and exchanges. Students work with primary sources such as diplomatic documents and other official records, missionary reports, newspapers, memoirs, literature, art, and advertising. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. GT
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HS 490 - Capstone Project in American Studies (3.00 cr.)
As the capstone experience for the American Studies minor, each student develops an independent research project, internship, or service-based project, to be advised by two professors from different departments and presented at an end-of-year American Studies Symposium. The project constitutes the culmination of the student's work in American Studies and provides an opportunity for the student to bring together the perspectives of two different disciplines on a research area of particular interest. A project proposal must be submitted to and approved by the American Studies committee prior to registration for either the fall or spring semesters of senior year. The project must contain both a research and a formal writing component (the equivalent of a 20-25 page research paper). Written or electronic permission of the instructor. IU
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HN 201 - The Human Drama: The Ancient World (4.00 cr.)
Restricted to Honors students. The first in the four-course, interdisciplinary exploration of human history, extending from the ancient to the modern world, which Honors Program students take in the freshman and sophomore years. (Fall only)
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HN 202 - The Human Drama: The Medieval World (4.00 cr.)
Restricted to Honors students. The second in the four-course, interdisciplinary exploration of human history, extending from the ancient to the modern world, which Honors Program students take in the freshman and sophomore years. IM/IC (Spring only)
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HN 203 - The Human Drama: The Renaissance to Modernity (4.00 cr.)
Restricted to Honors students. The third in a four-course, interdisciplinary exploration of human history, extending from the ancient to the modern world, which Honors Program students take in the freshman and sophomore years. IC (Fall only)
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HN 204 - The Human Drama: The Modern World (4.00 cr.)
Restricted to Honors students. The fourth in a four-course, interdisciplinary exploration of human history, extending from the ancient to the modern world, which Honors Program students take in the freshman and sophomore years. (Spring only)
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HN 210 - Eloquentia Perfecta (3.00 cr.)
Restricted to Honors students. A course in analytical thinking, writing, and speaking. Aimed at helping Honors students to become better readers, listeners, speakers, and writers, each section of the course focuses on a particular theme or topic. Students read texts pertinent to the section's theme or topic, analyze the arguments and rhetoric of those texts, produce their own analytical writing, and make oral presentations. (Fall only)
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HN 215 - Engaging Nature (3.00 cr.)
Restricted to Honors students. An introductory science course which emphasizes close observation of the natural world, problem solving, and hypothesis development. It is designed to introduce students to science as a "way of knowing" and to the nature of scientific research and debate. (Spring only)
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