Classes in HIST
| HIST110 | The Ancient World (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interpretation of select literature and art of the ancient Mediterranean world with a view to illuminating the antecedents of modern culture; religion and myth in the ancient near East; Greek philosophical, scientific, and literary invention; and the Roman tradition in politics and administration. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST111 | The Medieval World (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The development of Europe in the Middle Ages; the role of religious values in shaping new social, economic, and political institutions; medieval literature, art and architecture. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST135 | Civil Discourse or Urban Riot Why Cities Don't (Often) Explode (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| An examination of the mechanisms that promote peaceful co-existence in urban societies and a discussion of how and why city streets sometimes become violent. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST156 | History of the United States to 1865 (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The United States from colonial times to the end of the Civil War. Establishment and development of American institutions. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST157 | History of the United States Since 1865 (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The United States from the end of the Civil War to the present. Economic, social, intellectual, and political developments. Rise of industry and emergence of the United States as a world power. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST211 | Women in America Since 1880 (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Also offered as WMST211. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: HIST211 or WMST211. An examination of women's changing roles in working class and middle class families, the effects of industrialization on women's economic activities and status, and women's involvement in political and social struggles including those for women's rights, birth control, and civil rights. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST213 | History of Sexuality in America (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit will be granted for only one of the following: HIST213 or HIST219O. Formerly HIST 219O. Explores the social construction of sexualities from the first colonial settlement to the modern era in the United States. Analyzes the implications of these understandings for power relations in U.S History. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST219B | Rebellious Women (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST221 | Asian American History (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Formerly: HIST219M and HIST219G. Also offered as AAST201. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: AAST201, HIST219G, HIST219M, or HIST221. Introduction to the history of Asian Americans in the United States and the Americas and to the field of Asian American Studies, from an interdisciplinary perspective. Topics include theories of race and ethnicity; Asian migration and diaspora to the Americas; Asian American work and labor issues; gender, family, and communities; nationalism and nativism, and anti-Asian movements; Asian Americans in World War II, the Cold War, and the issues in the civil rights & post-civil rights era. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST222 | Immigration and Ethnicity in America (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Also offered as AAST222. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: AAST222, AAST298A, HIST219L or HIST222. Formerly HIST219L. The history of immigration and the development of diverse populations in the United States are examined. Topics include related political controversies, the social experiences of immigrants, ethnicity, generations, migration, inter-group relations, race and diversity in America culture. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST225 | Modern Military History, 1815-Present (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The military history of Europe through an examination of the economic, financial, strategic, tactical, and technological aspects of the development of military institutions and warfare from the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to the present. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST233 | Empire! The British Imperial Experience 1558-1997 (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit will be granted for only one of the following: HIST219P or HIST233. Formerly HIST 219P. Britain's empire from the mid-sixteenth century to the late twentieth century, focusing on the encounter between Britain and indigenous peoples. Topics include the origins of British imperialism in Ireland and North America, the slave trade, the East India Company and India, women in Empire, transportation and the making of Australia, sex in empire, missionaries, racial theories and decolonizaiton. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST235 | History of Britain 1461 to 1714 (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| British history from the War of the Roses to the Hanoverian succession; Yorkist and Tudor society and politics; the Renaissance and Reformation in England, Henry VIII through Elizabeth I; 17th-century crises and revolutions; intellectual and cultural changes; the beginnings of empire; the achievement of political and intellectual order. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST236 | History of Britain 1688 to Present (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| British history from the Glorious Revolution of 1688 to the present. The revolution of 1688; the structure of 18th-century society and politics; economic and social change in the Industrial Revolution; 19th and 20th-century political and social reform; imperialism; the impact of the First and Second World Wars on British society. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST237 | Russian Civilization (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| An overview of Russian history stressing the main lines of development of the Russian state and the evolution of Russian culture to the present day. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST240 | Europe in the Twentieth Century (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Not open to students who have completed HIST337. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: HIST240 or HIST337. Formerly HIST 337. Political, cultural and economic developments in 20th-century Europe. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST251 | Latin American History II (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The political culture of the republics of Latin America. Themes include nation building, modernization, race relations, economic development, gender, reform and revolution, and relations between the United States and Latin America. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST266 | The United States in World Affairs (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A study of the United States as an emerging world power and the American response to changing status in world affairs. Emphasis on the relationship between internal and external development of the nation. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST283 | History of the Jewish People II (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit will be granted for only one of the following: HIST283, HIST283H, JWST235, or JWST235H. Political, economic, social and cultural development within Jewish history from the end of Middle Ages to the present. Special attention to twentieth century developments including the Nazi holocaust and its aftermath, the Zionist movement and the creation of the State of Israel; rise of the contemporary American Jewish community. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST283H | History of the Jewish People II (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit will be granted for only one of the following: HIST283, HIST283H, JWST235, or JWST235H. Also offered as JWST235H. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST285 | East Asian Civilization II (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A survey of the historical development of modern Asia since 1700. Primarily concerned with the efforts of East Asians to preserve their traditional cultures in the face of Western expansion in the 18th and 19th centuries, and their attempts to survive as nations in the 20th century. Also offered as JWST235. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST289A | Violence, Catastrophe and Civilian Conflict Worldwide in Historical Perspective (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
One of the "I" Courses for Fall 2010: Issues-Inspiration-Imagination; http://www.provost.umd.edu/GenEd2009/ Click here for more course information. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST289B | Carbon: Element at the Center of History (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
One of the "I" Courses for Fall 2010: Issues-Inspiration-Imagination; http://www.provost.umd.edu/GenEd2009/ Click here for more course information. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST289E | Pursuits of Happiness: Ordinary Lives in the American Revolution (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
One of the "I" Courses for Spring 2012: Issues-Inspiration-Imagination; http://www.iseries.umd.edu/ Click here for more course information. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST289I | Looking at America through a Global Lens (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST289K | Spies, Assassins, Martyrs, and Witches: Famous Trials in American History (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST307 | The Holocaust of European Jewry (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Also offered as JWST345. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: HIST307 or JWST345. Roots of Nazi Jewish policy in the l930's and during World War II: the process of destruction and the implementation of the "final solution of the Jewish problem" in Europe, and the responses made by the Jews to their concentration and annihilation. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST324 | Classical Greece (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The ancient Greeks from Homer to Socrates, 800-400 B.C. Society and religion of the city-state, the art and literature of Periclean Athens, the Peloponnesian War, and the intellectual circle of Socrates. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST326 | The Roman Republic (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prerequisite: HIST110 or HIST111; or permission of instructor. Ancient Rome 753-44 B.C., from its founding to the assassination of Julius Caesar. Rome's conquest of the Mediterranean world, the social and political forces which brought it about, and the consequent transformation and decline of the republic. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST331 | Europe in the High Middle Ages: 1000-1250 (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medieval civilization in the 11th through 13th centuries. Emphasis on cultural and political developments of the high Middle Ages with study of the principal sources of medieval thought and learning, art and architecture and political theory. Recommended as a sequel to HIST330. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST333 | Europe During the Renaissance and Reformation II (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST355 | Civil War and the Rise of Industrialization, 1860-1900 (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prerequisite: HIST156, HIST157, HIST210, HIST213, HIST222, HIST254, HIST255, or HIST275; or permission of instructor. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: HIST355 or HIST364. Civil War, sectional and class conflicts and their impact on American life and institutions from the beginning of the Civil War through the Gilded Age; social, economic, and political reconstruction of the Union; industrialization, urbanization, and technological changes. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST356 | Emergence of Modern America, 1900-1945 (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prerequisite: HIST157, HIST211, HIST213, HIST222, HIST255, HIST265, or HIST275; or permission of instructor. The emergence of modern institutions and identities, 1900-1945. These institutions may include corporate enterprises and the welfare state; identities include homosexuality, the New Woman and the New Negro. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST357 | Recent America: 1945-Present (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prerequisite: HIST157, HIST211, HIST213, HIST222, HIST255, HIST265, or HIST275; or permission of instructor. American history from the inauguration of Harry S. Truman to the present with emphasis upon politics and foreign relations, but with consideration of special topics such as radicalism, conservatism, and labor. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST396 | (PermReq)Honors Colloquium II (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prerequisite: HIST395 or permission of department. For HIST majors only. Uses a seminar approach to examine a major problem of historical interpretation across two or more diverse cultures in different periods. Topics vary and include: religion and society, the city in history, gender, slavery and emancipation, and modernization. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST398 | (PermReq)Honors Thesis (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST404 | History of Modern Biology (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The internal development of biology in the 19th and 20th-centuries, including evolution, cell theory, heredity and development, spontaneous generation, and mechanism-vitalism controversies. The philosophical aspects of the development of scientific knowledge and the interaction of biology with chemistry and physics. Also offered PHIL458B. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST405 | Environmental History (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| An introduction to the key issues and methods of environmental history. The scope of the subject is discussed, as well as its relationship with other disciplines, such as ecology, anthropology, and geography. A primary focus is environmental change in history with emphasis on the American experience. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST408A | (PermReq)Senior Seminar:Early Modern Europe (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST408B | (PermReq)Senior Seminar:Asia Pacific War & Occupation of Japan: Gender, Class, Race (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST408E | (PermReq)Senior Seminar:Race, Sex, and Empire: Major Issues in American History, 1877-1920 (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST408J | (PermReq)Senior Seminar:The Modern Babylon: A Cultural History of 19th Century London (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST408K | (PermReq)Senior Seminar:Early American History (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST408M | (PermReq)Senior Seminar:Transnational Labor History (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST408O | (PermReq)Senior Seminar:East Africa (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST408Q | (PermReq)Senior Seminar:Jews and the Urban Environment (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prerequisite: permission of department. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: HIST 408Q or JWST 409L. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST408X | (PermReq)Senior Seminar:Inequality in the 20th Century United States (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST416 | History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit will be granted for only one of the following: HIST416 or HIST419Y. Formerly HIST419Y. Examines the history and impact of the slave trade on African states, societies, and economies. Investigates the meaning of slavery in Africa,the local uses of slavery there and Africa's connections to the Trans-Saharan, Red Sea and Trans-Atlantic slave trades. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST418D | Jews and Judaism: Selected Historical Topics:Readings in Modern Hebrew: Hasidism and its Opponents (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST419D | Special Topics in History:Islam in Europe (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST425 | Imperial Russia (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The rise and fall of the Russian Empire, Peter the Great to the collapse of tsarism in revolution. Emphasis on the evolution of autocracy, social groups, national identities, and cultural change. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST430 | Tudor England (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| An examination of the political, religious and social forces in English life, 1485-1603, with special emphasis on Tudor government, the English reformation and the Elizabethan era. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST455 | Constitutional History of the United States: Since 1860 (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| American public law and government, with emphasis on the interaction of government, law, and politics. Emphasis on the political-constitutional system as a whole, rather than simply the development of constitutional law by the Supreme Court. Major crises in American government and politics such as Civil War, Reconstruction, the 1890s, the New Deal era, the civil disorders of the 1960s. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST461 | Blacks in American Life: 1865 to Present (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prerequisite: HIST157, HIST210, HIST211, HIST222, HIST254, HIST255, HIST265, or HIST275; or permission of instructor. The role of the Black in America since slavery, with emphasis on 20th-century developments: migration from farm to city; growth of the civil rights movement; the race question as a national problem. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST462 | The United States Civil War (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prerequisite: HIST156, HIST210, HIST213, HIST222, HIST254, or HIST275; or permission of instructor. Causes of the Civil War; sectional politics and secession; resources and strategy of the Confederacy and the Union; changing character of the war; emancipation and its consequences: economic, social and political conditions on the home front; and the wartime origins of Reconstruction. Not a military history course; little attention to the tactics of particular battles. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST471 | History of Brazil (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prerequisite: HIST250, HIST251, LASC234, or LASC235; or permission of instructor. The history of Brazil with emphasis on the national period. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST473 | History of the Caribbean (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Offers a concise introduction to the history of the Caribbean regions from the Columbian voyages to the 20th-century. Special emphasis is given to the dynamics of local social and cultural formations within the framework of the political and economic history of the Atlantic world. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST483 | History of Japan Since 1800 (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Japan's renewed contact with the Western world and emergence as a modern state, industrial society, and world power, 1800-1931; and Japan's road to war, occupation, and recovery, 1931 to the present. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST601 | History and Contemporary Theory (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| An introduction to contemporary theories in philosophy, literary criticism, cultural studies, anthropology, and other fields; and analysis of their usefulness to historians. For majors only. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST608B | (PermReq)General Seminar:American History (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST608E | (PermReq)General Seminar:Women's Seminar (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST608J | (PermReq)General Seminar:20th Century Latin America (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST639L | Special Topics in History:History of Sexuality (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Also offered as AMST628W. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: AMST628W or HIST639L. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HIST798B | Readings in Jewish History:The Modernization of the Jews (3 credits) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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