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Concentration: U.S./Europe/Global / Period: Pre-Modern/Modern
HST 300 World War II in Europe
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Concentration: Europe / Period: Modern
HST 300/JSP 300 Antisemitism in US History
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Concentration: U.S. / Period: Modern
HST 300 American Jewish History Survey, 1654-Present
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Concentration: U.S. / Period: Modern
HST 300 Food in Modern Europe
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HST 301 Practicum
What is History? How do scholars “do” history? This seminar introduces history majors to the methods and goals of historical study, and to the skills needed to conduct independent historical research. The first part of the course will be spent discussing what exactly history is and has been. We will then move on to discussing the kinds of history that have developed across the century in the American Historical profession. Finally, students will spend a large portion of the course familiarizing themselves with the analytical and practical skills needed to develop their own research projects.
HST 311 Medieval Civilization
This course explores European civilization from about 800 to about 1200. We will study kings, saints, and villains; faith and violence, love and hatred; ideas and beliefs. Our questions include: how did these people make sense of their world? How did they respond to crisis and opportunity? How did their civilization work? What was life like in medie-val Europe? To answer these questions, we will mainly read primary sources that show us what medieval people themselves had to say about their world. Our goal will be to un-derstand the past on its own terms. We will also emphasize the skills of close reading, strong argumentation, and clear expression of ideas.
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Concentration: Global / Period: Pre-modern
HST/SAS 329 Making Modern India
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Concentration: Global / Period: Modern
HST 341/PSC 329 Modern American Presidency
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Concentration: U.S. / Period: Modern
HST 347/HNR 360 Modern American Politics Through Film
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Concentration: U.S. / Period: Modern
HST 354/LIT 300 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Concentration: Europe / Period: Pre-Modern
HST/JSP 362 Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
In 1933, a radical and dictatorial regime came to power in Germany, remade the German state, and went on to orchestrate a vast program of mass murder in pursuit of a vision of biological purity and to launch a war of world conquest, ultimately killing millions. This course examines the history of German fascism, the Nazi state, and the Holocaust according to three primary lines of inquiry. In the first part of the course, we will address the question of how the Nazis came to power. What was Nazism, and why did it gain a popular following? Why did the Weimar Republic, the parliamentary democracy founded in 1918, fall (first to dictatorship and then to Nazism) in the early 1930s? In the second part of the course, we will examine the politics of Nazism in power. What was everyday life like for various Germans under the Nazi state, and why did many Germans come to support the regime? The course’s third section addresses war, genocide, and the legacies of Nazism and the Holocaust. How did Nazi genocide policies develop, and how was it possible to implement them? What can the history of Nazi Germany teach us about other state-run mass murder programs? How have Germans grappled with the aftermath of Nazi Germany?
Concentration: Europe / Period: Modern
HST 364 The Origins of Modern Russia
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Concentration: Europe / Period: Modern
HST 370 American Military History
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Concentration: U.S. / Period: Modern
HST 386 Crime and Society in US History
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Concentration: U.S. / Period: Modern
HST 393 East Asia and the Socialist Experience
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Concentration: Global / Period: Modern
HST 401 Genocide in the Modern World
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Concentration: Europe/Global
HST 401 China in Western Minds
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