HIST A200 U.S. History to 1865 3 crs.
This course covers the exploration, the colonial experience, independence, the new republic, the spread of both democracy and slavery, expansion, abolitionism, and the Civil War. The emphasis of the course is not only political but on the economic, social, and intellectual and cultural aspects of U.S. history as well.
HIST A201 U.S. History from 1865 3 crs.
This course discusses the Reconstruction era, the Gilded Age, imperialism, progressivism, WWI, the ’20s, the New Deal, WWII, the Cold War, the new frontiers, the Great Society, and contemporary America. The emphasis of the course is not only political but on the economic, social, intellectual, and cultural aspects of U.S. history as well.
HIST A202 Historical Methods Lab 1 cr.
This course is a one-hour laboratory taken either freshman or sophomore year, with exceptions for transfer students. Linked with HIST A200, the lab director teaches historical methods while the instructor of the HIST A200 survey grades the research paper.
HIST A220 Latin America I 3 crs.
This course is a survey of pre-Columbian civilizations; European discovery and conquest; structure and problems of empire in Spanish and Portuguese America; the influence of the church; and the struggle for independence.
HIST A221 Modern Latin America 3 crs.
This course is a socio-economic, cultural, and political analysis of Latin American Republics since 1820. Emphasis is on the development of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Topics include problems and prospects, clash between the traditional and the modern, conflicts between church and state, and inter-American relations.
HIST A230 Law in Early America 3 crs.
This survey course examines the major developments in American legal history from the Colonial period to the Civil War.
HIST A231 Law in Modern America 3 crs.
This course, a continuation of HIST A230, examines the major developments in American legal history from 1865 through the 20th century.
HIST A232 American Trials 3 crs.
This course focuses on famous American trials and uses them as a means to examine the broader historical context in which they took place. Particular attention is given to why these trials captured the public’s attention at the time they occurred and why they still have a hold on the popular imagination today.
HIST A235 Seminar in Global Issues 1.5 crs.
This course is open to all students by invitation who want the challenge of engaging macro questions of the human experience within the context of different moral and political values. The course is limited to 20 students and then only to second-semester freshmen through first-semester seniors. The seminar is intended to prepare Loyola’s most able students for success in scholarship and fellowship competitions.
HIST A240 A History of New Orleans 3 crs.
This course not only explores the historical forces that have transformed New Orleans into one of the world's most distinctive cities, but also the ways in which the Crescent City has played an important role in shaping the broader historical events of both region and nation. Students emerge from this course with a firm understanding of how diverse factors such as geography, economics, culture, ethnicity, and politics have produced New Orleans as we know it today.
HIST A245 Louisiana History 3 crs.
This course examines the political, economic, and social development of Louisiana from the colonial period to the present.
HIST A248 U.S. Military History 3 crs.
This course examines U.S. military policy from the American Revolution to the Cold War; the causes, events, and effects of major American conflicts; and the role of the military in American society and thought during the past two centuries.
HIST A270 The American Character 3 crs.
This course is a study of those characteristics of American culture that seem to define America as unique among nations. It concentrates on contemporary American values and politics, but will begin with the observations of Franklin and Crevecoeur and include the writings of contemporary journalists, historians, social scientists, novelists, travel writers, and foreign observers.
HIST A276 African American History to 1865 3 crs.
This course is a survey of the African-American experience from the African background to the end of the Civil War. It focuses on African-Americans’ quest for the American dream and how they attempted to deal with the problems and challenges posed by enslavement and racism.
HIST A277 African American History from1865 3 crs.
This course is a study of the African-American experience since the Civil War. Students examine the nature and effects of the changes wrought by the Civil War and Reconstruction. The course addresses the themes of change and continuity in the black experience, the struggles against Jim Crow, the civil rights struggles, and post-civil rights developments.
HIST A278 African American Women's History 3 crs.
This course will explore the cultural, social and political history of African American women from slavery to the present. Interdisciplinary in approach, we will utilize books, primary sources, art, and film to explore how African American women navigated the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality in defining themselves. Major themes will include labor, social movements, community and institution building, violence, and resistance.
HIST A283 Games, Fictions, & Power in China 3 crs.
This course is about power in China during and before the Ming dynasty - both how power worked, and how Chinese elites thought it worked. Using a role playing game, we explore the workings of Confucian power at court, and then study the ways people thought about power through games, fiction, and philosophical writings.
HIST A287 East Asian History 3 crs.
This course is an introductory survey of the history of China, Japan, Korea. Students study the cultural traditions of Asia as well as the historical conflicts that arose among the various Asian civilizations. The course prepares students to study in depth the cultures of China and Japan and provide foundation for an understanding modern Asia. Cross-listed with JPNS A287
HIST A288 Middle East & Islam, 600-1650 3 crs.
This course traces the major developments in the Middle East from the 7th to the 16th centuries. This period witnessed the transition to Islam in the Arabian Peninsula and its spread throughout the wider Middle East. Accordingly, students study how Muslims shaped a unified civilization and interacted with non-Muslim communities and polities.
HIST A289 Middle East 1600 to Present 3 crs.
This course is a continuation of Middle East I. It explores the main patterns and events that shaped the modern Middle East from the 16th century to the present, paying particular attention to the expansion of empire, the transformation of economies and institutions, changing gender relations, and conflicts over territory.
HIST A300 Ancient History 3 crs.
This course discusses the political, social, religious, economic, and cultural development of western culture from the Sumerians to the Romans.
HIST A304 Early Christianity 3 crs.
This course examines the apostolic age; geographical expansion; persecutions; organizational developments; early heresies; councils of Nicaea, Ephesus, and Chalcedon; popular piety; church-state relations; rise of Monasticism.
HIST A305 Medieval Crime and Community 3 crs.
This course explores the interaction between the development of criminal law and social change in the late medieval period. Classes are organized thematically and focus on a broad range of subjects, from trial by ordeal to sanctuary. Emphasis is placed on the creative ways litigants and jurors manipulated the law courts to their best advantage.
This course examines European social, political, and cultural institutions from the fall of Rome to the 15th century. Themes include: the evolving Church (monasticism, papal monarchy, medicant orders); medieval institutions (feudalism, monarchy); intellectual change (Scholasticism, vernacular literature); and crisis (Crusades, the Black Death).
HIST A307 Saints & Demons in Medieval Europe 3 crs.
The medieval church played a central role influencing the lives of Western Christians. This course examines the depth of that influence. Particular emphasis is placed on forms of religious expression, the development of ecclesiastical organization and hierarchy, the role of the church in everyday life, canon law, and lay involvement in the church.
HIST A308 Age of Renaissance 3 crs.
This course is a study of the social, political, economic, and intellectual developments of the Renaissance. Shifting attitudes mark a transition from the medieval to the early modern world and prepare the way for the upheavals of the Age of Reformation.
HIST A310 Age of Reformation 3 crs.
This course examines the shift in religious sensibilities in light of new economic, intellectual, and political developments, and explores the unique responses of Protestant and Catholic reformations.
HIST A313 Islam in China 3 crs.
This course uses China to understand Islam, and Islam to understand China, in order to develop more sophisticated views of both phenomena. By the end of the course, students' image of the mosque will have room for Chinese-style pagodas, and their imagination of China will include Turkic Sufi poetry.
HIST A315 Western Intellectual History 3 crs.
This course traces the history of western ideas, dealing with the major intellectual developments from the pre-Socratic Greeks to the crisis of European thought in the 19th century.
HIST A317 History of Genocide 3 crs.
This course examines the nature of genocide concentrating on episodes of genocide in the twentieth and twenty-first century, and investigating distant and proximate roots of specific episodes in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The consequences of specific acts of genocide, responses to genocide and strategies for combating genocide are also considered.
HIST A321 Modern Europe 1815 — 1914 3 crs.
This course covers European History from the Congress of Vienna to the outbreak of World War I. Some of the topics covered include Revolution and Reaction; the Industrial Revolution; German and Italian Unification; the quest for colonies and empire; and the roots of World War I and the Russian Revolution.
HIST A322 Modern Europe 1914 — 1945 3 crs.
This course surveys European history from the First World War to the end of the Second World War. In addition to the causes and results of the two wars, some of the topics covered include the Treaty of Versailles; the Russian Revolution and Stalinism; Fascism and Nazism; and the Holocaust.
HIST A323 Modern Europe 1945 — Present 3 crs.
This course examines Europe from the end of World War II until the present. Some of the topics covered include the Origins and Course of the Cold War; the Transformation of Britain and France; the Resurgence of Germany; The European Common Market and the European Union; the collapse of Communism and of the Soviet Union; and the wars of Yugoslavian Secession.
HIST A327 Hitler and Nazi Germany 3 crs.
This course traces the development of Hitler through his rise to power to his subordination of Germany to his dictatorship. It examines the character of the Nazi state, its monopolization of power through terror, its racial agenda, its aggressive ethnic imperialism, and its ultimate defeat as a result of hubristic over-extension.
HIST A328 The Holocaust 3 crs.
This course examines history of the anti-Semitism of the Nazi regime in Germany, its anti-Semitic measures, and finally its genocidal assault on the Jews of Europe. The origins of German and Nazi anti-Semitism, the course of Nazi anti-Semitic policy, and the consequences of the Holocaust are discussed in detail.
HIST A330 American Beginnings 3 crs.
This course explores the establishment of colonies in North America. Economic, political, social, and intellectual developments from prehistory to the end of the Seven Years’ War (1763) are discussed.
HIST A332 Revolutionary America 3 crs.
This course considers the impact of revolutionary change in North America from the time of the Revolution to the end of the War of 1812. The course explores the economic, political, social, and intellectual questions facing Americans from the beginnings of the drive to Independence through the formative years of nationhood.
HIST A336 History of the Old South 3 crs.
This course discusses the origins and evolution of the Old South as a distinctive region and section from its colonization through the collapse of the Confederacy.
HIST A337 The New South 3 crs.
This course is an investigation of the history of the New South. The course ponders the definition of "New South," the New South Creed, and development of the South as a distinctive region from the collapse of the Confederacy to the Information Age.
HIST A338 Civil War and Reconstruction 3 crs.
This course covers 1845 — 1877 through examination of the forces leading to sectional conflict and to reestablishment of the Union.
HIST A340 U.S.: Gilded and Progressive Eras 3 crs.
This course is a study of America’s industrial age and emergence as a world power in the period 1877 — 1914. Emphasis, too, is on the reaction and reform which these changes brought about, e.g., the decline of laissez faire thought and the genteel tradition, and the rise of the Populist and Progressive movements.
HIST A342 U.S.: The ’20s and ’30s 3 crs.
This course is a study of America from 1914 to 1941; from the peak of optimism and the Progressive Movement to disillusionment and the brink of a second world war; from incredible prosperity to more incredible depression. Emphasis is on the social, political, and intellectual responses to the period’s tremendous economic, cultural, and technological changes.
HIST A343 U.S.: WWII to Present 3 crs.
This course is a study of America from 1941 to the present, including WWII, the Cold War, the hot wars of Korea and Vietnam, and the increasingly active foreign policy of the period. At home, it includes the problems of adjustment to the postwar world and to unprecedented affluence–in general to the vast changes of the past five decades.
HIST A345 A History of Food in America 3 crs.
This course encourages students to broadly consider the historical consequence of food through diverse methodologies and inclusive modes of expression. Reading material, classroom discussion, and lecture encourage an expansive approach to research methodology and interpretation while emphasizing systematic analytical approaches to history.
HIST A349 Africa to 1880 3 crs.
This course is a survey of the history of Africa from the earliest times. It examines the evolution of African societies and states and interactions between Africans and the outside world.
HIST A350 Africa 1880 to Present 3 crs.
This course covers the interaction of Africa with the West. It also examines the processes and structures of colonialism, African reactions to colonialism, nationalist movements, and the economic and political structures of independent African states.
HIST A352 Women in African History 3 crs.
This course examines women in African history from ancient times to the present, focusing on how religious practices, colonialism, and social class have impacted their lives. Students examine the construction of gender, social systems, reproduction, women’s exercise of power, and the attempt to control of the bodies of women and girls.
This course examines the making of modern Iran from the inception of the Qajar dynasty (1796) to the present, tracing the development of the state structure from an ethno-tribal monarchy to a modern theocratic state through internal and international wars, civil wars, coups, revolutions, and reforms. The Islamization of the Iranian political and cultural sphere during and in the aftermath of the 1979 revolution is explored as a puzzle rather than the expected logical development of Iranian political processes. Critical questions are posed about Iranian history.
HIST A360 Punishment and Power in Modern Japan 3 crs.
This course covers the penal practices used in Japan from the 17th century to modern times. It explores how changes in the law related to the country’s desire to conform to Western legal standards in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Japanese prison system, “thought control” and the legal implications of the Allied Occupation are studied. Cross-listed with JPNS A360
HIST A370 History of India 3 crs.
The history of India from the pre-Vedic period to the present is examined, emphasizing social and cultural developments, including the caste system, family structure, and the role of women. Art, architecture, literature, and music are analyzed as reflections of Indian values. Attention is also on the British Raj, the national independence movement led by Mahatma Gandhi, and contemporary India.
HIST A381 English History to 1688 3 crs.
This course is a study of political, social, cultural, and religious developments from the Roman Conquest to the Revolution of 1688. Themes include: England’s mixed cultural heritage, emergence of Parliament, development of law, interaction with England’s neighbors and invaders, religious transformation, and proto-nationalism.
HIST A382 English History, 1688 to Present 3 crs.
This course is an analysis of the transformation of English society from 18th-century aristocratic dominance and the rise of the middle classes in the 19th century to the emergence of working-class power and the establishment of the welfare state in the 20th century. The changing role of England as a world power is also examined.
HIST A390 China to 1644 3 crs.
This course examines how the Chinese have viewed themselves, historically, politically, social-economically, religiously, and aesthetically from the Hsiao Dynasty c. 2200 B.C. to the Ming Dynasty 1640.
This course examines how the Chinese continued to view themselves in relation to their earlier history and how the coming of the West influenced the Ching Dynasty (1644-1911) and the subsequent experience of the Chinese in the 20th century.
HIST A392 Japanese History I 3 crs.
Pre-Buddhistic Japan of the Jomon and Yayoi Eras, Nara, the "Golden Age" of Heian, the emergence of the Samurai in the Kamakura Era, Ashikaga Shogunate, and the arrival of the West are discussed in the course. Emphasis is given to the religious, political, and cultural life of Japan between c. 500 B.C. and 1600 A.D. Cross-listed with JPNS A392
HIST A393 Japanese History II 3 crs.
This course examines the Tokugawa Era (1600 — 1868), the impact of the West and the subsequent emergence of Japan as a modern nation in the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa Eras. Emphasis is placed on Japanese arts and culture. Cross-listed with JPNS A393
HIST A400 Historiography 3 crs.
This course is a study of the meaning of history through the eyes of philosophers, theologians, and historians; it studies both philosophies of history and the various approaches to historical investigation. Required of all students majoring in history.
HIST A404 Documentary & Oral Histories 3 crs.
This class uses the methodology of oral history to explore an aspect of the history of New Orleans through interviews. Students use A/V equipment to preserve their interviews and they use the information they gather to write term papers and produce documentaries. The focus of this course varies each semester.
HIST A405 Early American Indians 3 crs.
This course surveys the history of North American Indians from the earliest periods of prehistory to the "closing" of the American frontier in 1890. Using the methodology of ethnohistory, the course explores the history and culture of the diverse Indian peoples of early America as well as their interaction with other ethnic groups.
HIST A410 History of Mexico 3 crs.
This course covers the history of Mexico from Aztec times to the present. Emphasis on dominant social, economic, and cultural trends.
HIST A442 History of Southern Africa 3 crs.
This course offers an historical survey of developments in Southern Africa. Particular emphasis is placed on the evolution and growth of societies and states, economic, social, and political developments, external interventions, and impacts on race relations.
HIST A493 Directed Reading Course 3 crs.
The course content varies but is keyed to student and faculty interests in relevant professional topics.
HIST A496 Seminar/Workshop credits vary
A seminar is a supervised group of students sharing the results of their research on a common topic. A workshop is a supervised group of students participating in a common effort.
HIST A497 Internship/ Practicum credits vary
An internship is supervised practical experience. A practicum is supervised practical application of previously studied theory. Specific intern programs provide practical experience in archival and museum work.
HIST A498 Research Project credits vary
This project focuses on empirical or historical investigation, culminating in a written report.
HIST A499 Independent Study credits vary
Independent work done under professorial supervision.
Foundation Courses: First-Year Seminar
All first-year students take a 3-credit First-Year Seminar during their first semester as one of the core course in the Loyola Core. First-Year Seminars at Loyola are small, discussion-based seminars that introduce new college students to academic inquiry at the university level by investigating a relevant topic. Specially-trained faculty lead these seminars in a way that instills in students the academic skills necessary to become successful Loyola students. A list of upcoming First-Year Seminars can be found on the First-Year Experience homepage.
HIST T122 Global History I 3 crs.
Knowledge-Values Courses: History I
The course chronicles the story of humanity from its origins to 1700. Classes explore the histories, cultures, and folkways of the peoples of the world through assignments focused on the fundamental critical thinking skills required of a novice student in an entry-level college history course: reading and summarizing historical texts (both primary and secondary), gathering and assessing evidence, and the preliminary aspects of writing and discussing history.
HIST T124 Global History II 3 crs.
Knowledge-Values Courses: History I
The course chronicles the story of humanity from 1500 to the near present. Classes explore the histories, cultures, and folkways of the peoples of the world through assignments focused on the fundamental critical thinking skills required of a novice student in an entry-level college history course: reading and summarizing historical texts (both primary and secondary), gathering and assessing evidence, and the preliminary aspects of writing and discussing history.
HIST P210 Latin America's Global Reach 3 crs.
Knowledge-Values Courses: History II: Emerging World
This course compares and contrasts the Old and New World and how their interaction brought us to the global village we live in today. This course thus examines how and why Europeans moved into the New World, seeking to build empires of trade, commerce, and exploitation.
Knowledge-Values Courses: History II: Emerging World
Christianity in Europe and the Levant as it emerged in Late Antiquity was forged in a period where, from the encounter and clash of vastly disparate cultures and beliefs, new artistic and intellectual forms emerged from the old and new modes of thinking and living took hold in a world that managed to successfully synthesize innovation and tradition at all levels of existence. The study of Christianity in Late Antiquity, then, is the study of a social revolution in the making.
HIST P240 Women in The Middle Ages 3 crs.
Knowledge-Values Courses: History II: Emerging World
This class explores changes in women’s rights and roles in medieval society. Special emphasis is placed on the gap between prescription and reality, women’s contributions to medieval society, ideas and attitudes about women, and developments at the end of the medieval period to create a society tolerant of witchcraft persecutions.
Knowledge-Values Courses: History II: Emerging World
Muslim fundamentalists today see attacks on Westerners as a continuation of the Wars of the Cross; Westerners know little about them and feel no sense of continuity. These attitudes are a legacy of the medieval period. For Europe, the Crusades were a positive experience, encouraging scholarship, economic expansion, and Christian solidarity. For Muslims, it hastened the fragmentation of an empire. A better understanding of the Crusades illuminates current relations with the Middle East.
This course satisfies an Advanced Common Curriculum Social Science requirement for students who began their program of study before fall semester 2013.
HIST P258 Medicine in the Medieval West 3 crs.
Knowledge-Values Courses: History II: Emerging World
This course explores the history of medical theory and practice, focusing most closely on the medieval era (i.e. 400-1500), but taking into good account also the Greek and Roman foundations of medical theory that prevail in Western and Middle Eastern society until the Enlightenment. The history is explored through a variety of lenses: clinical, ethical, religious and social.
HIST P270 Latin West, Orthodox East 3 crs.
Knowledge-Values Courses: History II: Emerging World
The greatest split of all has been that between East and West, a split exemplified by the emergence of two distinct Christian traditions: Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox. Beginning with the roots of the divergence in apostolic times and taking the story right up to the Council of Florence in the fifteenth century, this course explores the factors--theological, personal, geo-political and cultural--that caused the development of progressively severe and irreversible fractures with the Church. The result was the creation of two distinct "mother churches," which themselves have in turn generated the entire panoply of sects East and West, of which the modern spectrum of Christianity is comprised. Lastly, this course seeks to examine the quest for world-wide ecumenical dialogue, despite divisions of the past, which continues up to the present day.
HIST P271 Money as Meaning 3 crs.
Knowledge-Values Courses: History II: Emerging World
This course proceeds from the proposition that money is a kind of meaning, and focuses on the relationship between money and other forms of communication, such as writing and printing. It examines the changing roles of various kinds of money across time, from the earliest stone-age exchange systems through the birth of capitalism in the early modern period, and explores the various conceptions of money across cultures. Through the survey of the history of monies, students also gain familiarity with the broad outlines of global history to 1650. The course is designed to be of use to students in all majors and degree programs, and to contribute to the goals of a liberal arts education.
HIST Q220 Autobiography as History 3 crs.
This course gives students a firm grasp of autobiography as a distinct literary genre. The historical development of autobiography is presented and the distincitions are drawn between autobiography, memoirs, literary portraiture, and personal adventure stories. The bulk of the course treats the historical circumstances in which each autobiography was written and the contents of the individual autobiographies themselves. Attention is given to ancient, medieval, and modern autobiographies.
HIST Q225 Ideologies and Economics 3 crs.
Knowledge-Values Courses: History II: Modern World
This course examines how the modern world has been shaped by ideologies and economics. From Classical Liberalism to the Arab Spring, students look at the ideas and economic realities that have forged our world.
HIST Q230 Oppression and Resistance 3 crs.
Knowledge-Values Courses: History II: Modern World
This interdisciplinary survey challenges students to critically evaluate the roles that racism, sexism, and prejudice have played in shaping the modern world. Students compare and contrast case studies of slavery, persecution, subjugation, and genocide and explore the violent and nonviolent resistance of marginalized peoples. To achieve a deeper understanding of the broad impact of bigotry and the efficacy of social justice movements, they connect specific struggles to the global narrative.
HIST Q232 Africa and Its Diasporas 3 crs.
Knowledge-Values Courses: History II: Modern World
This course explores the history of African Diasporas around the globe from the time of the Atlantic trade to the present. The course is global in scope, focusing not only African diaspora communities in the Americas, but also in the Indian Ocean world, in Europe and within the continent of Africa itself. Themes include community building and resistance under slavery, diasporic religious expression, black nationalism and socialism, anti-colonialism, and modern diasporas.
HIST Q234 Technology, Nature, and the West 3 crs.
Knowledge-Values Courses: History II: Modern World
This course explores various scholarly explanations for why and how industrialization first appeared in the West, with particular emphasis placed on role of technology in the utilization of natural resources and its attendant ecological effects.
HIST Q236 Historical Geography 3 crs.
Knowledge-Values Courses: History II: Modern World
This course examines modern (1400s-present) international history through the lens of geography. It will provide basic information about physical processes that have been important to social phenomena while emphasizing the role of politics and institutions in the formulation of knowledge and space. It is, moreover, intended to help students fulfill state requirements for the Teaching Certificate.
HIST Q240 Infectious Disease: Global History 3 crs.
This course explores the global history of infectious disease as a social, political, biological, and environmental phenomenon. Focusing on a select number of paradigmatic diseases - smallpox, bubonic plague, malaria, syphillis, cholera, influenza, leprosy, HIV/AIDS, and ebola - we look at infectious disease from a variety of geographical, chronological, and methodological purposes.
Knowledge-Values Courses: History II: Modern World
HIST Q254 Palestinians & Israelis 3 crs.
Knowledge-Values Courses: History II Modern World
This history course addresses the ongoing conflict between Palestinians and Israelis by exploring its origins in the history of Zionism and the formation of Palestinian national identity since the nineteenth century, inviting course participants to weigh the possibilities for peace, dignity, freedom, and security not only for Palestinians and Israelis, but also for the region and the world.
HIST Q260 WWI in History and Literature 3 crs.
Knowledge-Values Courses: History II Modern World
This class explores the dramatic military, cultural, political, and social shifts that were marked by the First World War. An overview of the military development forms the basic course structure around which the far more complicated social and political assumptions are accessed. Art, literature, and primary documents are used to focus the discussion and offer insight into the experience of war.
HIST Q262 Comparative Social Movements 3 crs.
Knowledge-Values Courses: History II: Modern World
This course explores the theories, actors, events and global social movements through the interrogation of specific case studies. Interdisciplinary in approach, the class utilizes monographs, primary sources, art, and film to explore how the masses affected change in the world they live in. Major themes include community and institution building, artistic expression, and resource mobilization.
HIST Q265 Nation & Nationalism 3 crs.
Knowledge-Values Courses: History II: Modern World
In examining the histories of nation and nationalism across time and space, this course challenges students to question attributes of immutability, naturalness, and eternity assigned to culture, religion, gender, state, and law. Using nationalism as an the analytical lens, students interrogate modernity, westernization, and globalization since 1700. The course explores looks layered and contested nature of our collective human pasts to unpack the roots of many contemporary global conflicts through a broad inter-disciplinary framework.
HIST Q266 Quest for Empire in Latin America 3 crs.
Knowledge-Values Courses: History II Modern World
This course looks at both the unifying & divisive forces of empire in Latin America in the Modern Period (1492-2016). Starting with the discovery of the New World and the Spanish Empire as a model for what evolved and came later and then ending with the two paradigms of the supposed universalism of capitalism and democracy, the course seeks to illuminate the underlying issues and structural forces down to the present day as a way to see what is in store for Latin America culture in the future.
HIST Q268 Gender and Nation 3 crs.
Knowledge-Values Courses: History II: Modern World
Since its birth in the late eighteenth century, nation has been imagined and projected in highly gendered language and imagery. This course takes students on a global journey to map this gendering of nation from different world regions in order to understand why and how this gendering of nation happened the way it did, and explore the consequences of it on the lived experiences of people: men, women, and queer group.
HIST Q283 Rise of Global Capitalism 3 crs.
Knowledge-Values Courses: History II: Modern World
This course is a survey of the growth and spread of world capitalism over the last 500 years, from the earliest global trading companies, through multiple industrial revolutions, to the rise of American multinational corporations and China's recent move toward a market economy. We study capitalism as a historical formation, changing through time and space, and intertwined with other areas of human endeavor as well as examining the history of economic thought from Adam Smith to the present day.
HIST Q285 Genocide in the Modern World 3 crs.
Knowledge-Values Courses: History II: Modern World
This course examines genocidal episodes and mass crimes against humanity from the beginning of the modern era to the present throughout the world. It investigates distant and proximate roots of specific genocidal episodes in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas, and the course and consequences of specific acts of genocide. It considers responses to genocide and strategies for combating genocide. This is an online course.
HIST Q286 War in the Modern World 3 crs.
Knowledge-Values Courses: History II: Modern World
This course examines war in the modern world. It considers the reasons why wars were fought, the nature of the wars and their human, moral, and material costs. Students learn the key developments of major wars and gain an understanding of the changing nature of war and the varieties of war fought in the modern era. Particular attention is paid to causes and consequence of war. This is an online course.