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 History
Professor Pankratz,
Chair
Professor Fahy
Associate Professor deSyon
Assistant Professors Kiddy
and Serlin
100 Level Courses
| HIS
101 |
Early Civilizations
This survey of the Antiquity considers the development and
interaction of cultures in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome.
In so doing, it includes not just political developments but
also the history of everyday life from religious traditions
to the status of women and children. |
| HIS
122 |
Medieval and
Early Modern Civilization
The development of western civilization from the time of
the barbarian invasions through feudalism, Saracenic and Byzantine
civilizations, the Crusades, the development of the feudal monarchies,
the Renaissance, and the Reformation to 1648. |
| HIS
133 |
Modern Civilization
The political, intellectual, social, and economic history
of Europe from 1648 to the present emphasizing industrialization;
the growth of rationalism; the ideologies of liberalism, socialism,
and Social Darwinism; and the events and ideologies of the 20th
century, such as communism, fascism, and the two world wars. |
| HIS
135 |
Foundations
of World Civilizations
This course will introduce students to the general characteristics
of the major civilizations and the epochs of world history to
1500. It will combine a general overview of global developments
and a concern with the common elements in the human experience
with specific study of the development of major distinct traditions
in Southwest Asia, the Mediterranean, India, China, Europe,
Japan, Africa, and the Americas. Students will be encouraged
to see events from a global rather than narrowly Eurocentric
perspective. |
| HIS
141 |
East Asia to
1800
This course aims to provide a broad overview of the pre-modern
histories of China and Japan, focusing on their institutional
and cultural interaction, and their influence on the cultures
of Korea and Vietnam. Subjects to be explored range from the
early development of Chinese philosophy and statecraft to the
development of the distinctive warrior ethic in Japan, from
the elaboration of official court culture to the emergence of
popular cultural forms. Throughout the course, we will consider
how Western images of East Asia have shaped our understanding
of its civilizations. |
| HIS
142 |
East Asia from
1800 to the Present
This course examines East Asia in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries with special emphasis on China and Japan. The course
will include the opening of East Asia by the Western powers,
the modernization process, Japan’s rise to major power
status, the Chinese Republican revolution, Japanese imperialism,
the War in the Pacific, the Communist take-over of mainland
China, the Korean War, Japan’s post-war reconstruction,
the Chinese Cultural revolution, the post-Mao era, and Japan’s
importance in the Western economy. |
| HIS
151 |
The Origins
of American Civilization
The new societies that emerged in North America in the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries were the products of a much broader
process of migration, cultural encounter, conquest, and exchange
that began to accelerate in the Atlantic world after the Columbian
voyages of the 1490s. As it turned out, some of these societies
also formed the origins of the United States as a nation and
the seeds of many of the institutions and impulses of American
life. This course will explore the colonial and revolutionary
periods from both these perspectives. |
| HIS
152 |
The United
States in the Nineteenth Century
The nineteenth century, in the United States as in many
other regions of the world, was a period of fundamental and
astonishingly rapid social and economic change. A capitalist
world system, in which the American economy played an increasingly
important role, implicated more and more people in a planetary
web of market relations. Over the same period the process of
industrialization altered the material bases of production and
consumption with profound implications for the nature of work,
the structure of families, and people’s perceptions of
time. In every aspect of human endeavor – politics, business,
science, literature, the arts, sexuality and gender relations,
child rearing – individuals, groups, and institutions struggled
to adapt to, to make sense of, these changes. Our task in this
course will be to pose and to begin to answer a series of questions
about these changes and these responses. |
| HIS
153 |
United States Since World War I
The major themes of 20th century America will be examined
in the course – political and economic changes, technological
advances, new social patterns, the impact of sports and leisure,
problems of injustice and social breakdown. The continuity
of these developments will be contrasted with changes that
were forced upon the U.S. by specific events – stock
market collapse, depression, war, ’60s trauma, and Reagan
conservatism.
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