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(A-QR) = Analytical -
Quantitative
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(CP) = Comparative Practices
(D-D) = Diversity - Domestic
(D-I) = Diversity - International
(D-L) = Diversity - Language
(ES) = Earlham Seminar
(IP) = Interpretive Practices
(SI) = Scientific Inquiry
(W) = Wellness
(AY) = Offered in Alternative Year
*HIST 121 INTRODUCTION TO
U.S. HISTORY TO 1865
(3 credits)
An introduction to
important trends and topics in U.S. history from the colonial period to 1865.
Includes political, economic, social, cultural and diplomatic subjects with
attention to questions of gender and race. (D-D)
*HIST 122 INTRODUCTION TO
U.S. HISTORY SINCE 1865
(3 credits)
An introduction to important trends
and topics in U.S. history from the end of the Civil War (1865) to the
present. Includes political, economic, social, cultural and diplomatic
subjects, with particular attention to matters of race and gender. (D-D)
HIST 130 HISTORY OF
NONVIOLENT MOVEMENTS
(4 credits)
A general introduction
to the field of peace studies and a history of nonviolent movements.
Surveys theories from the tactical nonviolence of Gene Sharp to the
principled nonviolence of practitioners like King and Gandhi, and explores
the use of nonviolence as a means of achieving peace and effecting social
change in an international and domestic context. Also listed as PAGS 130.
*HIST 220 INTRODUCTION TO EUROPEAN HISTORY (4 credits)
A survey encompassing
18th- to late 20th-century Europe, providing the major and non-major with
the opportunity for an acquaintance with modern European history. Principal
developments in European society, politics, religion and thought studied
through lectures, discussions and readings. Special attention to connecting
the spheres of women and men. Prerequisite: An Earlham Seminar, an Interpretive
Practices course or consent of the instructor. (CP)
*HIST 226 TRADITIONAL EAST ASIA (3 credits)
A survey of traditional culture
in China, Viet Nam, Korea and Japan, with emphasis on China and Korea,
and on East Asia as an international system. Special attention to the
historical development of the great tradition in literature, art, religion,
politics and social institutions. Also listed as JPNS 226. (CP, D-I)
(AY)
*HIST 228 MODERN EAST ASIA (3 credits)
A survey of East Asia since about
1800, with emphasis on China and Korea, and on East Asia as an international
system. Special attention to the historical development of politics, economics,
society and social institutions, literature, thought and international relations.
Prerequisite: An Earlham Seminar, an Interpretive Practices course or
consent of the instructor. Also listed as JPNS 228. (CP, D-I) (AY)
*HIST 231 AFRICAN HISTORY TO 1880 (4 credits)
Introduces students to
Africa's
long and varied past. Surveys the development of the continent from the
Nile Valley civilization to the loss of independence in the 1880s. Topics
include Africa as the site of the earliest human development, ancient Egypt's
relationship to the rest of Africa, the influence of Islam, the origins
and nature of African states and empires, the organization and consequences
of the Atlantic slave trade, the impact of European traders and missionaries,
and the scramble for Africa in the 1880s. Pre-requisite: An Earlham Seminar,
Interpretive Practices course or consent of the instructor. Also listed
as AAAS 231. (CP, D-I) (AY)
*HIST 232 AFRICAN HISTORY SINCE 1880 (4 credits)
Surveys the African
loss of sovereignty and the establishment of European colonial dominance
in Africa. Focuses on economic, political and social distortions resulting
from foreign domination. Considers the impact of African reactions to
these developments. Special attention to the struggle for independence
and the re-emergence of independent African states. Prerequisite: An
Earlham Seminar, an Interpretive Practices course or consent of the instructor.
Also listed as AAAS 232. (CP, D-I) (AY)
*HIST 234 GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN EUROPE AND AMERICA (3 credits)
A study
of ideas and expressions of gender since the 18th century and how and
why they have changed. Also, a historical inquiry into sexuality with
special attention to the "invention" of
heterosexuality and homosexuality in the 19th century.
Prerequisite: An Earlham Seminar, Interpretive Practices course or consent
of the
instructor. (CP, D-D)
HIST 240 SEMINAR (3 credits)
Sophomore- and junior-level seminar on selected
topics, introducing advanced research and critical writing within the
discipline. Previous topics have included the agrarian temper in U.S.
history and nation building in Africa.
*HIST 241 ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN (3 credits)
In antiquity, the Mediterranean
Sea united rather than divided cultures. Surveys cultures around the
Mediterranean from the ancient mid-eastern kingdoms to the Roman Empire
through the 4th century BCE. Particular attention to intellectual and
religious life and to civilization contracts with sub-Saharan Africa,
transalpine Europe, Arabia and Persia. Readings include primary texts.
Prerequisite: An Earlham Seminar, an Interpretive Practices course or
consent of the instructor. Also listed as CLAS 241 and JWST 241. (CP,
D-I) (AY)
*HIST 242 MEDIEVAL MEDITERRANEAN HISTORY (3 credits)
A unit in North
African, Arab and Byzantine as well as European history. Begins with
the 5th century with the breaking of Roman rule around the Mediterranean
and concludes with the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 and the expulsion
of Spain's Jews and Moslems
in 1492. Prerequisite: An Earlham Seminar, an Interpretive Practices
course or consent of the instructor. Also listed as JWST 242. (CP, D-I)
(AY)
*HIST 243 MEDIEVAL EUROPE (3 credits)
Western and Central Europe from
the 5th through the 14th centuries. A study of the emergence of European
civilization north of the Alps. Major topics include Christianization and
feudalization; village and domestic life; expansion eastwards and the rise
of commerce and cities; Ashkenazic Jewry; intellectual history and the rise
of universities. Prerequisite: An Earlham Seminar, an Interpretive Practices
course or consent of the instructor. (CP) (AY)
*HIST 246 EUROPEAN WOMEN'S HISTORY (3 credits)
An examination of
women's
history in the 19th and 20th centuries across a range of European countries,
with particular focus on politics, race, sexuality and culture. Employs
a comparative methodology, exploring similar themes across chronology and
geography. Allows students to question narrow (national, disciplinary, epistemological)
boundaries and reflect upon the distinctive contributions of women's
history.
HIST 248 ANTISEMITISM AND JEWISH EMANCIPATION (3 credits)
Examines the
relationships among citizenship, nation-state and Jewish identity. Focuses
on central questions of emancipation, assimilation, tolerance and persecution
for European Jews from the Middle Ages to the Holocaust. Structured primarily
around historical texts and primary sources; provides analysis and insight
into the debates that have unfolded over the centuries on the question
of Jewish presence, citizenship and persecution in European history.
Built around a central principle that Jewish history is neither anecdotal
nor marginal but actually central to European history.
*HIST 251 MEDIEVAL JEWISH HISTORY (3 credits)
The study of Jews as a nation
among the nations from Second Temple times until the beginning of emancipation
in the 18th century. Topics include law and self-government, treatment
of Jews in Moslem and Christian societies, the development of Jewish thought
and practice, and the experiences of Jewish women. Prerequisite: An Earlham
Seminar, an Interpretive Practices course or consent of the instructor.
Also listed as JWST 251. (CP, D-I) Offered every three years.
*HIST 252 MODERN JEWISH HISTORY AND THE HOLOCAUST (4 credits)
Studies the Holocaust or Shoah in the context of Modern Jewish History
from Emancipation through 1948. Particular attention to Jewish self-definition
and to Jewish responses. Secondary sources as well as select work of
prose fiction and selected memoirs. Prerequisite: An Earlham Seminar,
an Interpretive Practices course or consent of the instructor. Also listed
as JWST 252. (CP, D-I) (AY)
*HIST 253 JEWS SINCE 1945 (4 credits)
After the Holocaust, 80 percent
of the world's Jews lived in either the United States or Israel. A
study of the profound cultural, political and philosophical changes accompanying
this geographical change. Special attention to the Jewish communities
of the United States and the effects of Jewish statehood in Israel. Readings
include novels as well as histories. Prerequisite: An Earlham Seminar,
an Interpretive Practices course or consent of the instructor. Also listed
as JWST 253. (CP, D-I) (AY)
*HIST 254 THE HOLOCAUST AND FILM (4 credits)
Examines the question of
the representation of the Holocaust as a historical event and asks how
we, as citizens, can provide an adequate ethical commitment to the memory
of this event. Questions asked concern issues of memory and trauma, how
to do justice to survivors' experience,
how to understand the scope of the Holocaust. Also examines the limitations
of explanatory modes and specific issues pertaining to cinematographic
representation. Prerequisite: An Earlham Seminar, an Interpretive Practices
course or consent of the instructor. Also listed as FILM 254 and JWST 254.
(CP, D-I) (AY)
*HIST 270 TOPICS IN NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY (3 credits)
A topical study
of various aspects of the history of Native American history in North
America from the 19th century to the present. Sample topics include Native
American education and boarding schools, woodland Indians and cultural
recovery, Native American women, and tribes and political identity. Prerequisite:
An Earlham Seminar, an Interpretive Practices course or consent of the
instructor (CP, D-D) (AY)
*HIST 324 RACE AND ETHNICITY IN THE U.S. (4
credits) Research Credit.
Examines the pattern of changing social constructions of race and ethnicity
in the U.S. and their profound effects on the political, social and economic
lives of individuals and the country. Begins to untangle the historical
roots of the social constructions of whiteness and race, and examines
contemporary issues. Prerequisite: An Earlham Seminar, an Interpretive
Practices course or consent of the instructor. Also listed as AAAS 324.
(D-D)
HIST 340 HISTORY OF COLONIAL EUROPE 1789-1939
(4
credits) Research Credit.
Explores the question of remapping the history of Europe: How do we provincialize
Europe? Post-colonial theory and the explosion of colonial history have
shown traditional assumptions of European history to be not only antiquated
but fundamentally Eurocentric since they erase the very ways in which
the empire has constituted Europe. Examines how the specter of empire
structures determines what we understand to be Europe and the West. Prerequisite:
HIST 220.
*HIST 343 RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE EUROPE (4
credits) Research Credit.
Europe
from the dawn of the modern world to the age of Louis XIV. Topics include
the Renaissance and Reformation, Imperial Spain and the Dutch revolt, the
rise of capitalism and the ascendancy of absolutist monarchy. Prerequisite:
An Earlham Seminar, an Interpretive Practices course or consent of the instructor.
(CP) (AY)
HIST 344 DIPLOMATIC HISTORY: THE COLD WAR (3 credits)
Examines the agents
and structures that shaped world politics between the end of World War
II and the collapse of the Soviet Union concurrent with the Gulf War.
Were these five decades "a
long peace" or a period of unprecedented violence in world history?
Issues and themes include socialist internationalism, McCarthyism, human
rights, decolonization, national liberation movements, proxy wars, the
nuclear arms race, perestroika and the New World Order. Also listed as PAGS
344. (AY)
HIST 345 ENLIGHTENMENT AND REVOLUTION (4
credits) Research Credit.
The
1789 French Revolution has been perceived as one of the foundational
events of the modern era. Examines how the Enlightenment can be seen
as the precursor or origin of the Revolution, how revolutionary principles
could sustain the implementation of notions of rights and equality, and
how the French Revolution has emerged as historical object. Prerequisite:
HIST 220. (AY)
HIST 346 THE LONG CENTURY: 19TH-CENTURY EUROPE (3-4 credits)
Explores
how the central developments and fundamental shifts that took shape throughout
Europe were driven by the delineation of a masculine self and nation,
and how those were articulated politically, intellectually and culturally.
Explores such themes as working-class and middle-class culture, the emergence
of mass politics and revolutions, nationalism and imperialism, gender
and sexuality, science and knowledge, culture and art in the fin-de-Siecle.
Prerequisite: HIST 220. (AY)
HIST 347 EUROPE AND THE WORLD WARS (4
credits) Research Credit.
Topics
include military and civilian life during the First World War, the New
Diplomacy, the successor states, the decline of French and British power,
totalitarianisms, the Second World War, the Cold War, the fall of communism
and European integration. (AY)
*HIST 353 LATIN AMERICA TO 1825 (3 credits)
An examination of the origin
and development of Latin American civilization, with particular attention
to the European conquest and its effect on Native Americans: the origin and development
of colonial institutions and conditions which led finally to the demise
of the colonial system. Also listed as LTST 353. (D-I) (AY)
*HIST 354 LATIN AMERICA SINCE 1825 (3 credits)
Emphasizes the 20th century,
examining patterns of modernization, development and resistance. Sources
include literature, and works reflecting religion and popular culture.
Also listed as LTST 354. (D-I) (AY)
HIST 355 SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET RUSSIA (4
credits) Research Credit.
An
examination of primarily Soviet history with attention to the final decades
of czarism. Topics include Leninism and the Russian revolutionary tradition;
the February and October revolutions; Brest-Litovsk and the origins of
Soviet foreign policy; NEP and the turn to collectivization; Stalinism
and terror, from the Popular Front to the Non-Aggression Pact; the Great
Patriotic War; Stalin's last years,
the Cold War; Khrushchev and reform; collective leadership under Brezhnev;
and Gorbachev's reforms and their effects. (AY)
*HIST 356 THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT (4 credits)
Surveys the history of
the modern southern Civil Rights Movement. Focusing on the campaigns
and struggles in the mid 1950s and 1960s when blacks and their white
allies directly confronted Jim Crow segregation in an effort to gain
full citizenship rights and economics opportunity. Focuses on mass movements,
with some attention to other freedom struggles, particularly before the
emergence of mass activism. Prerequisite: An Earlham Seminar, an Interpretive
Practices course or consent of the instructor. Also listed as AAAS 356.
(CP, D-D) (AY)
*HIST 357 READINGS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S HISTORY (3 credits)
Explores select topics in the history of African American women from
the era of antebellum slavery to the present, using such primary sources
as slave narratives, autobiographies, documents and historical monographs.
Topics include gender relations in the slave community, the gendered
nature of slave resistance and rebellion, the politics of economic emancipation,
women's activism
in the struggle against racial violence and segregation and the role
of women in the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. Also listed as
AAAS 357. (D-D) (AY)
HIST 358 TUDOR AND STUART ENGLAND (4 credits)
The history of England, 1460-1714.
A topical inquiry into English society, politics and religion, including
the English reformation, Tudor and Stuart kingship, the changing social
order, civil war and political revolution, the emergence of Parliament,
the constitutional monarchy, the religious settlement and the foundation
of oligarchy. (AY)
HIST 359 HISTORY OF EDUCATION (3 credits)
Begins with the 17th century
and focuses on the 19th and 20th centuries. Emphasizes the United States
while drawing upon the history, experiences and philosophies of other
countries or regions to help explain or clarify the U.S. development of
education. Defines education as the transmission of culture, aiming at a
broad understanding of the forces and factors that influence and shape public
and private education at the primary and secondary level. Prerequisite:
An Interpretive Practices course or consent of the instructor. Also listed
as EDUC 359. (AY)
HIST 360 COLONIAL AMERICA (3 credits)
An examination of the origins of
the British colonies in North America up to the outbreak of the revolution.
Explores the development of colonial ideas and institutions such as Puritanism,
slavery, the family, town government, the problems of imperial rule, and
the character of Indian culture and its interaction with European life.
Seeks to explain how these were the formative years of American life and
society. Prerequisite: An Interpretive Practices course or consent of the
instructor. (AY)
HIST 361 YOUNG REPUBLIC (4 credits) Research Credit.
An investigation
of the origins, development and character of the new nation. Studies
the causes and ideas of the American Revolution and assesses the Declaration
of Independence, Articles of Confederation and Constitution. Also considers
the emergence of public and especially federal institutions, the changing
role of private life, slavery, nationalism, the character of democratic
society, the origin of the War of 1812, education, continental expansion
and the rise of sectionalism. Prerequisite: An Interpretive Practices
course or consent of the instructor. (AY)
*HIST 362 AMERICA AT MID-PASSAGE: CIVIL WAR AND ITS LEGACIES
(4 credits) Research Credit.
Focuses on 19th
century issues leading to the Civil War and the multilayered legacy of
the war, with particular attention to race and reunification. Examines
the war's
transformation of politics and the economy and the efforts of various
groups to resist, control or reform a society in the throes of rapid change.
Prerequisite: An Earlham Seminar, an Interpretive Practices course or
consent of the instructor. (CP) (AY)
HIST 363 RECENT U.S. HISTORY (4 credits) Research Credit.
A study of social,
economic, political, diplomatic and demographic developments from 1914 to
present. Special attention to the social ferment of the 1920s, the experimentation
of the New Deal, the origins and impact of World War II, the contours of
the Cold War, McCarthyism, American intervention in Vietnam, cultural
conflicts in the 1960s and 1970s including the form and function of various
social protest movements, and the Reagan-Bush era. Prerequisite: An Interpretive
Practices course, HIST 121, HIST 122 or consent of the instructor. (AY)
*HIST 364 WESTWARD MOVEMENT:
ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF THE OLD
NORTHWEST (4
credits)
Research Credit.
This course examines the environmental history of Earlham's home, the
Old Northwest — from
the geological formation of the Great Lakes to tribal uses of the land, but
primarily focusing on the last 200 years as the area changes from "wilderness" to
family farms to large urban cities and industrial agriculture. Emphasis is given
to the various environmental ethics that shaped resource uses, and the interrelated
changes and their consequences — both intended and unintended — for
wildlife species, air, soil and water quality, land use and human health, habits
and choices. Prerequisite: An Earlham Seminar, an Interpretive Practices course
or consent of the instructor. Also listed as ENPR 364. (CP) (AY)
HIST 365 SOCIETY AND THOUGHT IN THE U.S. (3 credits)
An examination of
major ideas shaping U.S. society. Considers the source of these ideas,
the ways in which they become disseminated in the culture, and their
impact on patterns of behavior. Focuses on authors whose ideas have profoundly
shaped ideas of gender and family. Prerequisite: An Interpretive Practices
course or consent of the instructor.
*HIST 366 AMERICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT (3 credits)
The development of political
ideas in America from the Puritan colony experience to the present. Examines
the changing concepts of the role of government and the nature of political
society through the writings of major thinkers. Also listed as POLS 366.
(D-I) (AY)
*HIST 367 WOMEN AND MEN IN AMERICAN SOCIETY
(4 credits) Research Credit.
A survey of U.S. social history from 1607 to the present, focusing on
the historical contours of female/male sex roles. Topics include marriage,
the family, child-rearing, work, education, sexuality, and gynecology
and reproduction. Analyzes the effects of war, racism, slavery, immigration,
industrialization and consumerism along with abolitionism, temperance,
feminism, civil rights and other social protest movements. Prerequisite:
An Interpretive Practices course, HIST 121 or 122, or consent of the
instructor. Also listed as LGST 367 and WMNS 367. (D-D) (AY)
*HIST 368 AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY TO EMANCIPATION (4 credits)
A survey
of African Americans from the era of the Atlantic slave trade to the
passage of the 13th amendment. Topics include the paradox of the co-existence
of slavery and freedom, the nature of the slave community, the issue
of slave resistance and the role of free African Americans in the abolition
movement. First-hand accounts and secondary materials give students an
appreciation of the African American historical experience in the United
States. Also listed as AAAS 368. (D-D) (AY)
*HIST 369 AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY SINCE EMANCIPATION (4 credits)
Surveys
the history of African Americans from the era of Emancipation through
the migrations that transformed blacks into a national, urban minority
to the political, cultural and economic challenges in the era of conservatism.
Topics include the struggle to define race and citizenship after the
Civil War, the impact of migrations on black society and national politics,
the consequences of the rise of a black industrial working class, campaigns
for civil and human rights, and the emergence of the black power movement.
Also listed as AAAS 369. (D-D) (AY)
*HIST 371 ZIONISM AND MODERN ISRAEL (4 credits)
Examines Jewish political
theory and the original texts of Zionists and the role of war and diplomacy
in creating mandatory Palestine and recognizing the new State of Israel.
Offers a comprehensive study of Israeli domestic history along with the
history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Prerequisite: An Earlham Seminar,
an Interpretive Practices course or consent of the instructor. Also listed
as JWST 371. (CP, D-I)
*HIST 372 ASIAN AMERICAN HISTORY (3 credits)
A survey of the history of
Asians and Americans of Asian ancestry in the United States from the 18th
century to the present, with emphasis on phases of immigrant history and
interactions with recipient communities in the context of U.S. historical
development, and on issues of race, ethnicity, gender, naturalization and
citizenship, and racial, ethnic and cultural identity. Prerequisite: An
Earlham Seminar, an Interpretive Practices course or consent of the instructor.
Also listed as JPNS 372. (CP, D-D) (AY)
*HIST 373 AMERICA'S MIDDLE EAST (3 credits)
A survey of the history
of American involvement in and attitudes toward the countries and peoples
of the Middle East, with emphasis on diplomacy and policy making, scholarship
and the construction of knowledge, and representations of the Middle
East in American popular culture. Prerequisite: An Earlham Seminar, an Interpretive
Practices course or consent of the instructor. (CP, D-I) (AY)
*HIST 374 AMERICA'S WARS IN ASIA (3 credits)
Examines American perceptions
and diplomatic and military conduct in Asia in the 20th century, from the
Philippine War to the War on Terror, focusing on the bilateral relations
between Asian countries and the U.S.,and on American behavior in the context
of U.S. domestic culture and politics. Examines the future of U.S. foreign
policy towards Asia. Prerequisite: An Earlham Seminar, an Interpretive Practices
course or consent of the instructor. Also listed as JPNS 374 and POLS 374.
(CP, D-I) (AY)
*HIST 376 HISTORY OF WEST AFRICA (3 credits)
Surveys the history of the
Sudanic and forest regions of West Africa from c. 1000 BCE to independence.
Primary emphasis on discerning the internal dynamics as well as the external
factors that shaped West Africa's development. Considers the cultural
and social diversity of the region, the particular nature of the Sudanic
and forest states, importance of long-distance trade and Islam, effects
of the Atlantic slave trade, impact of colonialism on African life and
struggle for independence. Also listed as AAAS 376. (D-I) (AY)
*HIST 377 EAST AFRICA (4 credits)
Surveys the history of East Africa
(Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda) from the time of the great migration through
independence. Among the issues addressed are the differences between
coastal and inland developments, the rise of the Indian Ocean trading
network, the emerging interior states, the appearance of coastal trading
systems, the early European distribution of coastal societies, the development
of plantation economics, the impact of colonialism, the variety in the
decolonization movements and the coming of independence. Also listed
as AAAS 377. (D-I) (AY)
*HIST 378 HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA (4 credits)
Surveys the history of southern
African society from the earliest times to the post apartheid era. Topics
include the nature of early indigenous African societies, the entrenchment
of European domination, the subjugation of African chiefdoms, the role of
international capital in transforming the economy, African resistance to
segregation and apartheid, and the dismantling of the apartheid state. Also
listed as AAAS 378. (D-I) (AY)
HIST 410 PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY (4 credits)
An examination of the nature
and structure of historical writing, the nature of evidence and selected
philosophies of history. Conducted by close readings of the works of
historians from ancient Greece to the present. Also listed as
PHIL 410. (AY)
*HIST 472 MODERN CHINA (4 credits) Research Credit.
A survey of Chinese
historical development from the first dynasties to the present day, with
emphasis on the period from the mid-14th century through the liberalizing
reforms of the post-Mao era. Investigates problems of historical continuity
and change, Chinese perceptions of themselves and of the West, attempts
at economic and political modernization, the Maoist revolution, and the
interplay between institutions and ideas. Also listed as JPNS 472. (D-I)
(AY)
*HIST 473 TRADITIONAL JAPAN (4 credits) Research Credit.
A survey of traditional
life and culture in Japan in a historical and institutional framework, from
earliest times to around the mid-19th century. Topics include the state,
relationship between authority and power, social structures, economic life,
philosophy, religion, the arts and literature. Also listed as JPNS 473.
(D-I) (AY)
*HIST 474 MODERN JAPAN (4 credits) Research Credit.
A study of Japanese
historical and institutional development in the early modern and modern
periods, from the 15th century to the present. Topics include the Tokugawa
period; Meiji Restoration and modernization; periods of colonialism,
imperialism and militarism; postwar recovery and the economic miracle; and
the challenges of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Explores economic,
political, social, intellectual and international perspectives. Attention
to prominent theories of development as applied to Japan. Also listed as
JPNS 474. (D-I) (AY)
HIST 481 INTERNSHIPS, FIELD STUDIES AND OTHER FIELD EXPERIENCES
(1-3
credits)
HIST 482 AMERICAN HISTORIOGRAPHY (4
credits) Research Credit.
An introduction
to the main currents of American historical thought and writing. An opportunity
to examine critically the ways leading American historians have interpreted
significant problems in national development through vigorous inquiry
into principles of selection and causation, use of evidence and fundamental
ideas. Prerequisite: HIST 121 or 122. (AY)
HIST 483 TEACHING ASSISTANTS (1-3 credits)
HIST 484 FORD/KNIGHT RESEARCH PROJECT (1-4 credits)
Collaborative research
with faculty funded by the Ford/Knight Program.
HIST 485 INDEPENDENT STUDY (1-3 credits)
For advanced students. An investigation
of a specific topic conceived and planned by the student in consultation
with a faculty adviser.
HIST 488 SENIOR CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE: HISTORY COLLOQUIUM (2 credits)
Required
of all History majors in the Spring Semester of their Senior year. Includes
a common reading of a major text, student reports on selected new works,
and revision and presentation of a major paper from a previous History course.
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