This class is about 1. Ideas that have chagned the discipline of history. 2. Ideas that have changed the larger flow of history. 3. Ideas that have changed you, the student, and your relationship to history. 4. Ideas that have changed your personal history.Satisfies the Integrative Experience requirement for BA-Hist majors. (No credit after History 391G).

Emphasis on European origins and world consequences; the role of ideologies and social systems on military strategy; weapons development, major battles, key individuals. Attention to U.S. participation, notably in the Pacific. (Gen. Ed. HS)

The history of the legal response to rape has often resulted in injustice for both the victim/survivor and the alleged perpetrator. This course will examine the evolution of the U.S. legal system's treatment of rape, paying particular attention to the movement against lynching in the post-civil war era, the rise of the feminist anti-rape movement in the 1970s and the student movement against campus sexual assault. Through an analysis of court cases, legislation, and other texts we will consider the role sexual violence has played in maintaining gendered and racialized power relationships.

What are the problems associated with developing equitable and just policy? Why does social policy in the United States continue to be marked by tensions between the principle of equality and the reality of inequalities in social, political, and economic realms? How might policy subvert or reinforce these differences and inequalities? This class examines the history of social policy in the United States, particularly those policies affecting concerns of gender, race, and class.

This course will examine modern Brazil from 1800 to the present, concentrating on the making of the nation given its massive geographical size and diverse population. Topics studied include Brazil's status as the world's largest slave holding society in the nineteenth century, and twentieth-century attempts to establish democracy.

This course will examine the role of U.S. imperialism in the region and the revolutionary organizing of Central Americans to build a world free of exploitation and state violence. As a diverse group of people, Central Americans have practiced solidarity to unite their movements across class, racial, and geographic borders. Why has the United States intervened in the region? What common interests have national elites and imperialists shared? How have working-class people transformed the region and confronted empire?

This course traces the history of Mexican society, politics, and culture from the late 18th century to the present. The first half analyzes the turbulent formation of Mexico, the legacies of Spanish colonialism, peasant uprisings of the 19th century, and the origins and course of the famous Revolution of 1910.

The rise and spectacular fall of China?s last dynasty, the Qing (1644-1911), with particular emphasis on the social, economic, intellectual and military forces that transformed China from an empire into a modern nation in the decades leading up to the 1911 Revolution. Our subjects will include secret societies, restoration scholars, gunboat diplomacy, imperial decadence, new-text Confucian visions, clandestine missionaries, treaty-port translators and student revolutionaries. No prior exposure to Chinese history is assumed.

A survey of modern Germany in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with an emphasis on cultural history. (Gen.Ed. HS, DG)

A survey of modern Germany in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with an emphasis on cultural history. (Gen.Ed. HS, DG)