01:510:101
Development of Europe I (3)
Introductory survey of European history from ancient times to the early modern period. Introduction to historical interpretation and historical inquiry.
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01:510:102
Development of Europe II (3)
Introductory survey of European history from the early modern period to the present. Introduction to historical interpretation and historical inquiry.
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01:510:201
Ancient Greece (3)
Civilization of the eastern Mediterranean world in ancient times, with emphasis on the origins of Western civilization and the Greek contribution to Western culture.
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01:510:202
Ancient Rome (3)
The Roman Republic and the Empire, with emphasis on the rise and decline of a Mediterranean world civilization under Roman leadership.
Credit not given for both this course and 01:190:209.
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01:510:205
Byzantium: The Imperial Age (3)
Development of the medieval Greek state and its civilization, 7th through 13th centuries. Key themes of history and culture (political theory, theology, literature, art). Relations with the Slavs, Arabs, Turks, and the West.
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01:510:207
Byzantium: The Last Centuries (3)
Development of Byzantine society and culture from the Latin crisis (1204-1261) through the Turkish conquest (1453), including the Byzantine impact on West European, Slavic, and Ottoman cultures.
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01:510:209
Emergence of Medieval Europe, 400-1150 (3)
Europe from the fall of Rome through the Dark Ages and into the feudal age--the era of Charlemagne, the Vikings, and the Crusades.
Credit not given for both this course and 01:667:281.
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01:510:211
Harvest of the Middle Ages, 1150-1520 (3)
From feudalism to the Protestant Reformation, with emphasis on social and economic developments. Religious, political, institutional, and cultural changes.
Credit not given for both this course and 01:667:282.
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01:510:213
The Crusades (3)
Ideology and expressions of the crusades, 11th to 14th centuries, including crusades against Muslims, heretics, and other papal enemies. Extensive use of film.
Credit not given for both this course and 01:685:213.
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01:510:245
The Arts of Power: Ritual, Myth, and Propaganda (3)
Investigates how paintings, movies, poems, and ceremonies have been manipulated to bolster the political authority of rulers, including Louis XIV, Lincoln, Hitler, and Elizabeth II.
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01:510:253
History of Witchcraft and Magic (3)
Witchcraft in relation to the history of religion; the phenomena of crime, deviance, and demographic change; and the history of women in Europe and America.
Credit not given for both this course and 01:988:253.
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01:510:260
Remembering the Shtetl (3)
How Jewish life in East European small towns has been documented and recalled from 19th century to present in fiction, art, ethnography, film, memoir.
Credit not given for both this course and 01:563:210.
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01:510:261
History of the Holocaust (3)
Development of anti-Semitism in modern European history culminating in the "Final Solution"; special emphasis on Jewish responses and resistance.
Credit not given for both this course and 01:563:261.
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01:510:271
Russia and the West (3)
Formation of traditional Russian society in isolation from the West; the impact of the West on Russia from Peter the Great to the present.
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01:510:300
Greek and Roman Slavery (3)
Social, economic, legal, and political aspects of slavery in Ancient Greece and Rome. The sources and numbers of slaves, forms of servitude, manumission, slave labor.
Credit not given for both this course and 01:190:300.
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01:510:301
Early Greece (3)
History of the Greek world from Minoan Crete through the Persian War. Readings (in translation) range from Homer through Herodotus.
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01:510:302
Classical Greece (3)
Greek history from the Persian War to the Macedonian conquest of Greece. Readings (in translation) from Thucydides, Xenophon, Demosthenes, Plutarch, and others.
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01:510:303
Hellenistic World (3)
Expansion and development of Greek culture from Alexander through the successor kingdoms in Greece, Egypt, Syria-Palestine, and Asia Minor.
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01:510:304
The Rise of the Roman Republic (3)
Roman political, social, and cultural history from the beginning of urban settlement through the emergence of the Roman state as the dominant power in the Mediterranean basin to the end of the second century BC.
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01:510:305
The Crisis of the Roman Republic (3)
Roman political, social, and cultural history during the crisis of the
late republic from 133 BC, the tribunate of Tiberius Gracchus,
through the establishment of the principate by the emperor Augustus.
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01:510:306
Roman Empire (3)
Political, social, and intellectual developments of the imperial period
until the age of Constantine, with emphasis on the first two centuries
AD.
(Formerly 01:510:305) Credit not given for both this course and 01:190:306.
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01:510:307
The Roman World in Late Antiquity (3)
Development of the Roman state and society from the late third through early seventh centuries. The transformation of the late classical world, and the origins of Byzantium and the medieval West.
(Formerly 01:510:306)
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01:510:308
Ancient Cultural and Intellectual History (3)
Aspects of cultural, religious, and intellectual developments in the classical world.
(Formerly 01:510:307)
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01:510:309
A History of Western Morals: Antiquity and Middle Ages (3)
Examines the formative period of moral ideas in Western civilization in ancient Greek, Roman, and Hebrew societies, then traces the evolution of those ideas through the Middle Ages.
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01:510:313
Renaissance in the Middle Ages (3)
Transmission and appropriation of classical culture in the patristic age; Irish, Carolingian, 12th-century, and early Italian Renaissance; social and political bases of these movements.
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01:510:315
Reform and Dissent in the Middle Ages (3)
Christian unity and its implementation, church structure, canon law, monastic reform, conciliar movement, academic and popular heresy, church-state relations, with emphasis on Italy and Germany. Integrated, interdisciplinary study of the age of the Renaissance in Italy and northern Europe from 1300 to 1550.
(Formerly 01:510:417)
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01:510:316
Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe: From Renaissance to Revolution (3)
Early Modern European history through the lens of women's experience with a special focus on the experience of women in Western Europe. Emphasis on methodologies and theories deployed by women's historians in recent decades.
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01:510:317
The Renaissance (3)
Integrated, interdisciplinary study of the age of the Renaissance in Italy and northern Europe from 1300 to 1550.
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01:510:318
Era of World War I (3)
Causes, course, annd consequences of World War I in the light of political, social, and military forces.
(Formerly 01:510:417)
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01:510:319
The Age of Reformation, 1500-1648 (3)
The Protestant and Catholic reformations and their significance for European society.
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01:510:320
Women in Antiquity (3)
Women in the ancient societies of Greece and Rome. Their roles and images in the social, legal, political, domestic, philosophical, and artistic spheres examined using primary sources.
(Formerly 01:510:251)
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01:510:321
The Age of Enlightenment (3)
Eighteenth-century European philosophy and philosophers examined within their historical contexts. The role of ideas in movements for social, moral, and political change.
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01:510:325
Nineteenth-Century Europe (3)
Examination of the formative period of modern Europe, including the industrial and democratic revolutions, nationalism, imperialism, and the crises culminating in World War I.
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01:510:327
Twentieth-Century Europe (3)
Major economic and social forces shaping life in 20th-century Europe, and efforts of major social groups to cope with and shape these forces.
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01:510:329
Medieval Culture and Society (3)
Topics in medieval religions, political, intellectual, and social history; thematic focus varies by instructor.
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01:510:333
France, Old Regime, and Revolution (3)
French history from Louis XIV to the fall of Napoleon. The absolutist state and the impact of revolution, stressing the interplay of political, social, cultural, and economic history.
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01:510:335
Modern France (3)
History of France from the fall of Napoleon to the present, with particular emphasis on the relation of political developments to social, intellectual, and economic change.
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01:510:337
Medieval Kings and Queens (3)
Rulership in theory and practice, from Germanic chieftains to divine-right monarchs, with attention to royal rivals, myths and rituals, marriage, and gender.
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01:510:338
England in the Middle Ages (3)
Political development of England from William the Conqueror to the War of the Roses.
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01:510:343
The Political History of England, 1485-1789: Centuries of Revolution? (3)
Explores the political, religious, and intellectual history of early modern England. Topics include the reformation, the state, political culture, revolutions of the 17th century.
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01:510:344
The Social History of England, 1580-1780: The First Modern Society? (3)
Explores the socioeconomic and cultural history of early modern England. Topics include popular culture; religion; sex and gender; urbanization; rise of consumerism, industrialism, capitalism.
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01:510:345
English Constitutional History to 1688 (3)
Developments of English governments to 1688, with emphasis on those institutions and political and legal ideas that form the background for American constitutional development.
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01:510:346
The English Revolution, 1640-1660 (3)
Explores the most tumultuous period in English history. Topics include causes and revolution, the Civil War, regicide and republicanism, radical politics and religion, Oliver Cromwell.
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01:510:347
The British Empire and the British Isles, 1485-1763 (3)
History of British overseas enterprise from opening phases of Atlantic exploration through end of the Seven Years' War. Special attention to impact of empire on British Isles.
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01:510:349
Modern Britain (3)
Developments since the 18th century that have shaped the character of contemporary Britain, including parliamentary democracy, industrialization, rise and fall of empire, and cultural change.
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01:510:350
Greek Society (3)
Social and economic life of the Greeks from the Mycenaean period through the Hellenistic age. Written and material evidence employed.
Prerequisite: Recommended: 01:510:201. Credit not given for both this course and 01:190:350.
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01:510:351
Medieval Italy, 476-1300 (3)
The Italian peninsula from the fall of the empire in the west to the age of the communes; social, political, and religious history.
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01:510:354
History of Italy's People (3)
Topical approach. Etruscans to present. Emphasis on culture, geography, religion, philosophy, family structures, agricultural systems, urban development, and universities.
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01:510:357
Medieval Germany (3)
Survey of German history from the late Roman Empire to the threshold of the Reformation, ca 300 to ca 1500.
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01:510:359
German Culture from Reformation to Enlightenment, 1500-1750 (3)
Covers political history (Reformation, Thirty Years' War, Absolutism), and Lutheran, Calvinist, and Catholic confessional culture. War experiences, pamphlets, and religious, social, and intellectual developments such as the Rosicrucians or Pietism. Also covers the early stages of the Enlightenment, the Republic of Letters, and natural law theories.
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01:510:360
Society and Culture in Germany 1750-1870 (3)
Introduction to the classical period of German culture, including study of Kant, Fichte, Lessing, Goethe, and Shiller in historical context.
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01:510:361
History of Germany to 1914 (3)
History of Germany from the Reformation to World War I, emphasizing absolutism, militarism, unification, the rise of nationalism, and anti-Semitism.
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01:510:363
Germany from 1871 to Present (3)
Analysis of the collapse of imperial Germany, the failure of democracy
in the Weimar Republic, Hitler's Third Reich, the Holocaust, and
restructuring of Germany since 1945.
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01:510:371
Russia from the Vikings to Peter the Great (3)
Slavic, Scandinavian, Byzantine, and Mongol contributions to traditional Russian culture; development of the autocratic state and its relations with the church, nobility, townspeople, and peasantry.
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01:510:373
State and Society in Imperial Russia (3)
Autocratic government as a dynamic force in the 18th century and a conservative one in the 19th in the face of intellectual and socioeconomic development.
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01:510:375
Revolutionary Russia and the Soviet Union (3)
Crisis of the old regime; revolution; building socialism in an
underdeveloped country; Stalin's terror; expansion and the Cold War;
the post-Stalin attempts at reform; the breakup of the Soviet Union.
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01:510:377
Russia in War and Peace (3)
History of Russia from the war against Japan in 1904 to post-Soviet wars in Chechnya. Focus on how international conflicts affected Russian politics, culture, and society: Revolution of 1905, turmoil in First World War, revolutions of 1917, Russian Civil War, "socialism in one country," mythology of Great Patriotic War, xenophobia in Cold War, war in Afghanistan, and collapse of communism.
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01:510:381
National Conflict in Eastern Europe, 1800-1948 (3)
Emergence of national movements and independent states in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, and Bulgaria. Problem of national minorities in nation-states, and solutions offered by nationalist, fascist, and communist regimes.
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01:510:382
Genesis of Modern Greece, 1450-1830 (3)
Political, social, religious, cultural, and intellectual experiences of Greeks under Ottoman rule, 1450-1830, culminating in national independence.
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01:510:383
Communism and Post-Communism in Eastern Europe, 1945-Present (3)
Impact of communism and neoliberalism on Eastern Europe. Collapse of the Soviet Bloc, transition to liberal market capitalism, and its social consequences.
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01:510:385
The History of East European Jewry (3)
Economic, legal, and political conditions of Jewish life from the 16th century to World War II. Forms of Jewish response: autonomism, messianism, Hasidism, emigration, and socialism.
Credit not given for both this course and 01:563:385.
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01:510:386
History of Zionism (3)
Messianism, forerunners of Zionism; ideology of Zionism; pioneer movements; the Yishuv and its institutions. The state of Israel: its structure and inner and outer life.
Credit not given for both this course and 01:563:343.
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01:510:387
Development of the Marxist-Leninist System (3)
Ideological background of Marxist-Leninist systems; evolution of Soviet system from Lenin to Gorbachev; disintegration of Soviet system since Gorbachev. Establishment of Marxist-Leninist systems in Eastern Europe and their evolution from Stalin to Brezhnev and dissolution under Gorbachev; special attention to Yugoslav dissidence under Tito; origins and evolution of Chinese Marxist-Leninist system after 1949, including Great Cultural Revolution and reforms under Deng Xiao-Ping; origin and development of Cuban Marxist-Leninist system.
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01:510:389
Jewish Politics, Jewish Power (3)
Political relationship of the Jewish community to the gentile authorities among whom they lived, from Rome in 70 CE to the contemporary period. Continuities and discontinuities of traditional conceptions of Jewish political behavior; rebellion and accommodation to structures of power in varying historical contexts.
Credit not given for both this course and 01:563:389.
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01:510:390
Jewish Memory (3)
Course explores various forms of Jewish memory shaped in response to major events, including myths, holidays, monuments, pilgrimages, testimonies, museums, literature, and film.
Credit not given for both this course and 01:563:390.
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01:510:391,392
Historical Studies (3,3)
Separate sections focusing on different topics at different times and in different areas. Specific titles available at time of registration.
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01:510:403
Ancient Warfare and Diplomacy (3)
International politics and military history in the Greek and Roman world. Readings include ancient sources (in translation) and modern interpretations.
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01:510:407
Rome in the Age of Augustus (3)
Examination of the career of Augustus and the developments in the Roman world during this period. Treatment of the problems of change and continuity through revival and innovation in political, social, and intellectual spheres with emphases on growth of imperial system and on the literary works and social legislation.
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01:510:419
Europe in the Contemporary World (3)
Europe from 1930s to present, focusing on European responses to challenges of American power, Soviet revolution, and anticolonial movements.
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01:510:425
Intellectual History of Early Modern Europe (3)
Study of major currents of thought (religious, scientific, political, and social) from the end of the Middle Ages to the 18th century.
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01:510:431
Origins of Capitalist Society (3)
History of the origins and developments of life and consciousness characteristic of capitalist societies since the beginnings of the industrial age.
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01:510:441
The Social History of Medieval England (3)
Concentrates on the interaction between individual and society in medieval England with special emphasis on the life experiences of the common people.
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