History
Undergraduate e-mail: tucker@humanitas.ucsb.edu
Graduate e-mail: ritzau@humanitas.ucsb.edu
Faculty e-mail: perez@humanitas.ucsb.edu
Web site: http://www.history.ucsb.edu
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Department Chair: John E. Talbott
Lawrence Badash, Ph.D., Yale University, Professor (history of science)
Randolph Bergstrom, Ph.D., Columbia University, Associate Professor (American social policy)
Hilary Bernstein, Ph.D., Princeton University, Assistant Professor (European renaissance)
W. Elliot Brownlee, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Professor (American economic history)
Sarah Cline, Ph.D., UC Los Angeles, Professor (Mexico, Latin America, Christianity)
Patricia Cline Cohen, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, Professor (women, social history)
Douglas H. Daniels, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, Professor (American and Afro-American history)
Jane S. DeHart, Ph.D., Duke University, Professor (modern U.S., women, public policy)
Harold A. Drake, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Professor (Rome)
Francis A. Dutra, Ph.D., New York University, Associate Professor (Brazil, Portugal)
Adrienne L. Edgar, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, Assistant Professor (modern Russia and the Soviet Union, central Asia)
Mark C. Elliott, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, Associate Professor (modern Chinese history)
Sharon Farmer, Ph.D., Harvard University, Associate Professor (medieval Europe)
Joshua A. Fogel, Ph.D., Columbia University, Professor (comparative East Asian history)
Abraham Friesen, Ph.D., Stanford University, Professor (Reformation)
Mary O. Furner, Ph.D., Northwestern University, Professor (19th- and 20th-century U.S. history, history of public policy)
Nancy E. Gallagher, Ph.D., UC Los Angeles, Professor (Middle East)
Mario Garcia, Ph.D., UC San Diego, Professor (Chicano history)
Jonathan A. Glickstein, Ph.D., Yale University, Associate Professor (U.S. intellectual history)
Anita Guerrini, Ph.D., Indiana University, Associate Professor (early modern Europe, history of science)
Carl V. Harris, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Associate Professor (American South)
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Ph.D., University of Washington, Professor (modern Russia)
R. Stephen Humphreys, Ph.D., University of Michigan, King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Professor of Islamic Studies (Islamic studies)
Joan Judge, Ph.D., Columbia University, Assistant Professor (modern China)
Laura Kalman, Ph.D., Yale University, Professor (20th-century U.S. legal and political history)
Carol L. Lansing, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Professor (medieval Europe)
John W. I. Lee, Ph.D., Cornell University, Assistant Professor (ancient Greece)
Albert S. Lindemann, Ph.D., Harvard University, Professor (modern European socialism)
Fredrik Logevall, Ph.D., Yale University, Associate Professor (U.S. foreign relations)
John D. Majewski, Ph.D., UC Los Angeles, Associate Professor (19th-century American history)
Harold Marcuse, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Associate Professor (modern central/eastern European history)
J. Sears McGee, Ph.D., Yale University, Professor (Tudor and Stuart Britain)
S. Cecilia Mendez, Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook, Assistant Professor (Latin American history)
Stephan F. Miescher, Ph.D., Northwestern University, Assistant Professor (African history)
Kenneth J. Mouré, Ph.D., University of Toronto, Associate Professor (European economic history)
Alice M. O'Connor, Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, Assistant Professor (20th-century U.S. history of public policy)
Michael A. Osborne, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Associate Professor (history of biological sciences)
Ann M. Plane, Ph.D., Brandeis University, Assistant Professor (U.S. colonial history)
Erika D. Rappaport, Ph.D., Rutgers University, Associate Professor (modern Britain)
Luke S. Roberts, Ph.D., Princeton University, Associate Professor (history of Japan)
David P. Rock, Ph.D., Cambridge University, Professor (Latin America and Argentina)
Paul M. Sonnino, Ph.D., UC Los Angeles, Professor (early modern Europe)
Paul Spickard, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, Professor (Asian and Pacific islander, American history, multi-raciality, ethnic theory)
John E. Talbott, Ph.D., Stanford University, Professor (modern Europe, war and society)
Zaragosa Vargas, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Associate Professor (modern U.S., labor, Chicano)
F. A. Bonadio, Ph.D., Yale University, Professor Emeritus (Civil War and Reconstruction)
Morton Borden, Ph.D., Columbia University, Professor Emeritus (early national U.S.)
Alexander B. Callow, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, Lecturer Emeritus (American urban history)
Chi-yun Chen, Ph.D., Harvard University, Professor Emeritus (ancient China)
Robert O. Collins, Ph.D., Yale University, Professor Emeritus (Africa)
Alexander DeConde, Ph.D., Stanford University, Professor Emeritus (foreign relations)
Dimitrije Djordjevic, Ph.D., University of Beograd, Professor Emeritus (Balkans and Eastern Europe)
Frank J. Frost, Ph.D., UC Los Angeles, Professor Emeritus (Greek history)
Alfred M. Gollin, D. Phil., D. Litt., Oxon., Professor Emeritus (modern Britain, 19th and 20th century)
Otis L. Graham, Jr., Ph.D., Columbia University, Professor Emeritus (recent U.S. history)
Stephen N. Hay, Ph.D., Harvard University, Professor Emeritus (India)
Immanuel C. Y. Hsu, Ph.D., Harvard University, Professor Emeritus (modern China)
Harold C. Kirker, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, Professor Emeritus (U.S. culture)
Leonard M. Marsak, Ph.D., Cornell University, Professor Emeritus (modern European intellectual history)
Roderick W. Nash, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Professor Emeritus (American environmental history)
Richard E. Oglesby, Ph.D., Northwestern University, Professor Emeritus (American West and California)
Joachim Remak, Ph.D., Stanford University, Professor Emeritus (Europe since French revolution)
Jeffrey B. Russell, Ph.D., Emory University, Professor Emeritus (medieval Christianity)
Catherine L. Albanese, Ph.D. (Religious Studies)
Allan Grapard, Ph.D. (East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies)
Richard D. Hecht, Ph.D. (Religious Studies)
Robert Morstein-Marx, Ph.D. (Classics)
A.E. Keir Nash, Ph.D. (Political Science)
Hyung Pai, Ph.D. (East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies)
Xiaojian Zhao, Ph.D. (Asian American Studies)
The Department of History offers two undergraduate degree programs: the bachelor of arts in history, and the bachelor of arts in the history of public policy.
The B.A. in the history of public policy, the first to be offered in American higher education, combines comparative studies in history with studies in related academic disciplines. Students are expected to acquire competence in a foreign language, in statistics and computer operations, and in research and writing skills, culminating in the preparation of a senior thesis. An internship in governmental and public affairs is strongly recommended.
The department offers the M.A. and the Ph.D. in history within two parallel curricula. One, traditional in nature, prepares students primarily, though not exclusively, for teaching careers in higher and secondary education. The second, pioneered at UCSB, is a graduate program in public historical studies, which aims at training historians for careers not in teaching, but in the community at large, primarily as researchers and writers.
Although personal enrichment is the prime reason that students choose history as a field of study, the nature of the discipline makes it highly desirable as a training ground for many professional fields. The traditional career for the history major has been in teaching, but the breadth of knowledge acquired by studying history is an advantage to those intending a career in business and government service. The stress on the development of research skills, as well as on the ability to think and write clearly, has proven to be excellent preparation for law school and for a wide variety of research and writing jobs.
Students with a bachelor's degree in history who are interested in pursuing a California Teaching Credential should contact the credential advisor in the Graduate School of Education as soon as possible.
The Department of History designates one of its members each year as principal undergraduate advisor; in addition, certain members of the department are appointed undergraduate advisors, each specializing in one of the two majors. Separate advisors are provided for M.A. and Ph.D. candidates. Publications describing both undergraduate and graduate programs are available from the department.
(1) The annual J. Bruce Anderson Fellowship award is endowed by the parents of Dr. Anderson; recipients must be in the Ph.D. program in history. (2) The A. Russell Buchanan Award is presented annually to the graduating senior majoring in history deemed most outstanding. (3) The Richard Kent Mayberry Prize is awarded annually to a history graduate student who has completed at least two years in the doctoral program.
Membership in the Gamma Iota Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honorary society, is open to students who have completed at least five courses in history with a grade-point average of 3.4 or better. Graduate students and faculty also belong to the organization. In addition to regular meetings on campus, the society sponsors student papers at regional and national meetings. Further information about the organization is available at the department office.
Preparation for the major. Thirty-two lower-division units, including (1) 12 units of History 4A-B-C; (2) 12 units of History 17A-B-C; (3) 4 lower-division units in Asian, African, Latin American, or Middle Eastern history; (4) 4 additional lower-division units of the student's choice in history.
Upper-division major. Forty units of upper-division work in history, at least 4 units of which must be in proseminar courses (any course with the letter P after its number). Four units of History 194AH-BH-CH may substitute for the proseminar requirement, but additional units earned in 194AH-BH-CH may not be applied to the major.
The proseminar. The particular skills of the historian are the ability to define issues, to gather information pertinent to a solution, and to digest and report that information in a clear and well-conceived argument. These skills, which are summed up by the word "research," are especially cultivated in undergraduate proseminars, in which the entire term is devoted to preparing a paper on a specialized topic of research. Majors are required to take at least one such course during their career here, but students serious about developing their research and writing skills are urged to take more than one. Proseminars and their subjects may be readily identified by the letter P after their course number, and by the course title. Since most faculty offer no more than one proseminar a year and enrollment is restricted, advance planning is essential. A list of proseminars to be offered in the current year is available at the Department of History office. Once students have chosen a field for the proseminar, they should approach the faculty to determine when such a proseminar will be offered, so they may plan their schedules well in advance.
Foreign language. Election to Phi Beta Kappa requires proficiency in one foreign language, normally demonstrated by completion of the fourth quarter or its equivalent. Students contemplating graduate study should consult their prospective graduate schools to determine whether specific languages are required.
Graduation with Distinction in History (The Undergraduate Honors Program)
The Department of History at UCSB traditionally has been committed to excellence in undergraduate education. In addition to the lower-division survey courses in American and European history, the department offers equivalent 5-unit honors courses, History 4AH-BH-CH and History 17AH-BH-CH, for students interested in undertaking additional reading and writing assignments. There are also other courses of this nature available at the upper- and lower-division levels.
Students who have successfully completed at least two such courses, or who have completed the department's lower-division historiography course, History 6 (Historical Reasoning), are eligible to enroll in History 100H (Historical Writing). This is an intermediate-level departmental seminar in which major works from a variety of historical periods and regions are studied and criticized. Qualified students who have not been able to satisfy the honors prerequisite (transfer students, for instance) may petition the department's honors committee for admission to History 100H.
In their junior year, students who have successfully completed History 100H and who have maintained a grade-point average in the major of at least 3.6 will be invited to join the department's Senior Honors Seminar, History 194AH-BH-CH, in which students pursue research on a topic of particular depth and complexity.
Students admitted into the program will enroll in History 194AH-BH-CH for the three quarters of their senior year. History 194AH-BH-CH may be used to satisfy the proseminar requirement for majors. However, no more than 4 units earned in this seminar may be applied to the 40 upper-division units required of all majors. In the fall quarter, honors candidates will read, write papers, and build a working bibliography for their thesis. The remaining two terms of the seminar will be devoted to independent research, conducted in consultation with the thesis advisor. At the end of spring term, students will submit three copies of the thesis to the department office. Students who have completed the honors sequence are eligible for graduation with Distinction in the Major.
Students who have not completed the honors seminar will not normally be eligible, although under unusual circumstances, supported by evidence of superior research and writing done in other history courses (such as the proseminars), a student may petition the department's honors committee. In order to graduate with Distinction in the Major, a student must complete a paper that is recognized by a history faculty member (normally the honors seminar director) as distinguished. The department honors committee will be responsible for verifying the final list of students nominated for graduation with Distinction in the Major.
Bachelor of Arts--History of Public Policy
Preparation for the major. A total of 32 lower-division units in history, composed of the following: (1) History 7; (2) History 4A-B-C; (3) History 17A-B-C; (4) 4 additional units in history which must be in the history of countries or cultures outside of Europe and the United States.
Required work in cognate disciplines: 16 units (four courses) chosen from among the following, with at least one course in each of three of the disciplines indicated: Economics 1, 2, or 109; Political Science 12; Philosophy 3 or 4; Environmental Studies 11, 12, or 13; Sociology 1 or 2 (these may also satisfy the General Education requirements).
Required work in statistics or computer operations: Computer Science 5AA-ZZ or PSTAT 5A-Z or Sociology 3.
Required work in foreign language: 0-20 units (i.e. completion of course 5) in a foreign language appropriate to the area of historical emphasis chosen in the major.
Upper-division major. Required work in history: 40 upper-division units including 8 units from History 163A-B, 170A-B, 171A-B and 172A-B; 24 units including 12 units in the history of one nation, continent, or period, and 12 units in the history of a contrasting nation, continent, or period (exclusive of courses used to satisfy the 8-unit requirement above), selected with the approval of the departmental advisor for public policy students; 8 units of History 195IA-IB (senior seminar).
Required work in cognate disciplines: 20 units, taken in one of the following related fields (inclusive of lower- and upper-division courses): economics, political science, environmental studies, philosophy, or sociology. Courses should be selected with the approval of the departmental advisor to public policy students. (Courses taken during the lower-division preparation for the major may be counted in satisfaction of this requirement.) Note: Public policy students must secure the departmental advisor's approval for their program each quarter.
Graduation with Distinction in History of Public Policy (The Undergraduate Honors Program)
History of public policy majors may also enroll in the Honors Program in History, described above. They will do so by fulfilling the listed requirements as to 1-unit honors courses or History 6 (Introduction to History); History 100H; and grade-point average. When invited to join the department's Senior Honors Seminar (History 194AH-BH-CH), which runs for three quarters in the student's senior year, they will do so with the understanding that History 194AH-BH-CH will substitute for History 195IA-IB, the required 8-unit senior thesis requirement in the history of public policy major.
Students majoring in other disciplines who have an interest in history may gain, albeit less intensively, the benefits described above by completing a minor in history. The minor consists of any 12 units of lower-division history courses and any 20 units of upper-division history courses. Publications suggesting ways to choose courses so as to focus on particular aspects of history (e.g., women, religion, science, ethnicity, East Asia, the United States, Europe, Africa, Middle East) are available from the department.
All courses to be applied to the minor must be completed on a letter-grade basis, including both courses offered in history and those offered by other departments and applied to the minor.
Preparation for the minor. Twelve lower-division units in history.
Upper-division minor. Twenty upper-division units in history. The department strongly recommends that one of the upper-division courses be a proseminar (undergraduate research seminar).
Note: Substitutions and waivers are subject to approval by the chair of the department. Please see "Academic Minors" for special conditions governing minors in the College of Letters and Science.
In addition to departmental requirements, candidates for graduate degrees must fulfill the university degree requirements found in the section "Graduate Education at UCSB."
In addition to departmental admission requirements, applicants must also meet the university requirements for admission described in the chapter "Graduate Education at UCSB."
Admission
The M.A. degree in history is looked upon as a valuable stage on the path to the doctorate. Although it is understood that some students may choose not to continue beyond the M.A., and that others may not be permitted to do so, the aim of the program is to provide students with research training leading to the doctoral degree. Consequently, the department does not admit students solely for the purpose of obtaining a master's degree. All applicants are admitted to a single M.A./Ph.D. program.
Applicants to the graduate program in history are expected to show high potential for engaging in advanced historical research and analysis. Applicants must meet general university requirements for admission to graduate standing and must have completed an undergraduate major in history or its equivalent. Applicants may be admitted with deficiencies, but those deficiencies must be made up in the first year and do not count in satisfaction of graduate degree unit or course requirements.
Applicants must submit a suitable sample of historical writing, such as a term paper or equivalent, and three letters of recommendation. These should address the applicant's academic qualifications for graduate work in history. In addition, applicants ordinarily are expected to have a minimum grade-point average of 3.5 in upper-division history courses (or 3.75 in master's courses), and minimum scores on the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) of 85th percentile in verbal and 70th percentile in either quantitative or analytical.
Applications for the fall, winter, and spring quarters must be received by January 15. Applicants requesting Graduate Division and/or history department financial assistance must have their completed application in to the department by December 15.
It should be stressed that admission to the program is competitive, and satisfying these minimum requirements does not, by itself, guarantee admission. At the same time, the decision to admit is based on consideration of the entire file, and promising applicants in unusual circumstances whose records fall below the minimum should not be discouraged from applying.
Applicants must be accepted by a major professor with whom they wish to work. Applicants unsure of how to choose a major professor should inquire by letter or telephone to the graduate program assistant, Department of History, as to how to proceed. No student will be admitted or allowed to continue without a faculty sponsor.
Degree Requirements
The M.A. degree will be awarded to students who satisfy the requirements prescribed by the Graduate Council and who, in addition, meet the following requirements:
Foreign language. Students must pass a written translation examination in at least one foreign language within one calendar year after taking the M.A. comprehensive examination.
Unit requirements. Students must pass a minimum of 36 units of upper-division and graduate history courses. No course will count for the degree if the grade earned in the class is valued at less than 3.0. At least 24 of these units must be in graduate courses numbered between 200 and 292, with 4 units of History 202 (required of all students who have not had a graduate course in historiography) and at least 16 units in research seminars, which will result in the preparation of an original research paper. Papers produced in these seminars lay the foundation for doctoral work and are taken into account along with the results of the comprehensive examinations in evaluating students for admission to the Ph.D. program. History 596 does not apply to the research seminar unit requirement, but 8 units will apply toward the 36-unit requirement. All research seminars last two quarters. Check with the graduate program assistant for credited seminars.
Comprehensive examinations. The student must pass one three-hour written examination in one of the graduate fields listed below. The department offers reading courses in many of these fields to help students prepare for the examination. History 200 courses are designed to cover large, general fields; History 201 courses cover more specialized fields.
*An Afro-American, Chicano, or American-Indian emphasis is acceptable in this field.
Admission
The M.A. degree in history or a cognate field is normally required for admission into the Ph.D. program. Applicants who do not meet this requirement must complete the M.A. in history before continuing to the Ph.D. The application deadline for those applying with an M.A. degree from another institution is December 15 if applying for financial assistance. Students taking the master's examination at UC Santa Barbara must achieve an average grade of A- or higher. In addition, the candidate must acquire a minimum of three satisfactory recommendations from professors within the department, including at least two from professors who have supervised or reviewed the candidate's graduate seminar research papers and one from a faculty member who will serve as major professor. These letters must be on file by the third week of the quarter following award of the M.A.
The General Fields of History
The Department of History at UCSB offers doctoral study in eleven general fields of history:
*Comparative gender is offered only as a third field, and not as a possible first or second field. Please refer to "Degree Requirements: General Examinations" for further description of field three, the outside field in history.
Students will study, and in due time present themselves for examination, in four examination fields, two of them chosen from one of the above general fields, and the third chosen from a second general field. The fourth examination field will be in an outside academic department or in history (see below, under "General Examinations"). The four professors under whom the students study as they prepare for their examinations constitute their doctoral committee. One of its members is the student's major professor, who presides.
Program Supervision
Once admitted to the Ph.D. level, each student will be systematically advised by his or her major professor, who will submit a review of the student's progress and prospects annually in the spring quarter. The results of the annual review will be individually communicated to the student in writing by the director of graduate studies. If the student's progress is unsatisfactory, the student will be notified that he or she is being placed on a one-year probationary status. If at the end of that year progress is still unsatisfactory, the department chair will recommend to the dean of the Graduate Division that the student be dismissed from graduate study.
Degree Requirements
Unit requirements. Students in the doctoral program must enroll for at least six regular academic quarters (not summer sessions) on the UCSB campus pursuing a program of full-time study (12 units each quarter) and research. Three consecutive quarters of this residency must be completed in regular session before advancement to candidacy. Students must complete 32 units of history research seminars, 16 units of which can be taken from the M.A. requirements. Check with the graduate program assistant for credited seminars. History 596 does not count as a research seminar. Students must take at least one graduate course in each of the four areas presented for examination (research seminars and courses taken while in the M.A. program satisfy this requirement), and a graduate course in historiography (History 202) if such a course has not been taken prior to admission to the doctoral program. Doctoral students in American history must take History 292A-B-C, in addition to the 32 units of research seminars.
Foreign language. The student must pass at least one foreign language examination, a requirement which may be satisfied by passing the foreign language examination for the UC Santa Barbara M.A. in history, or, with the approval of the graduate committee, an examination at another institution. Additional language requirements pertinent to the field of research may be specified by the major professor with the approval of the graduate committee. Preparation and supervision of these additional language examinations are the responsibility of the major professor, who may or may not use the regular departmental foreign language examinations.
Students should plan to satisfy the departmental foreign language requirement as soon as possible, but no later than the end of the second year in the doctoral program. No student will be allowed to take the general examinations for the Ph.D. without having completed the departmental language requirement, as well as any additional language requirements required by the major professor.
General examinations. Upon satisfying the unit and foreign language requirements, students will be eligible to take their general examinations. Candidates are required to present themselves for examination in four fields of study-three within history and the option of taking either a cognate field outside the history department or a fourth history field. Examination in the three history fields will be both written and oral; the examination in the cognate field or fourth history field will be oral only. The four fields are:
1. The major field, taken under the student's major professor. It will be in that professor's special field, or, with the approval of the graduate committee, in a closely related field. The major field ordinarily provides the intellectual basis for the dissertation and the student's later emphasis in teaching and research, and the student is expected to achieve depth and breadth of scholarly sophistication and mastery in this field.
2. The general field is the field within which the student's major field is located (e.g., U.S. history is the general field if the major field is U.S. diplomatic history). The student is expected to show breadth and perspective in this field in order to set his or her specialty within its encompassing framework and to be able to teach survey courses.
3. The outside field in history, chosen from a second of the department's graduate fields (see above). This field may be either specialized (as in 1 above) or general (as in 2), depending on the mutual decision of the student, the major professor, and the supervisor of the outside field. This requirement affords the student, for comparative purposes, a deep encounter with the history of a period or culture distinct from that studied in Fields 1 and 2 and also enables him or her to offer survey courses in this field.
4A. A cognate field outside the discipline of history is chosen from within another academic department. This field should strengthen the student's grasp of Field 1 and be comparable in depth and richness to Fields 2 and 3.
4B. With the approval of the major professor and the director of graduate studies, students may substitute for the cognate field a fourth history field from among a number of other topics. These topics must be sufficiently distinct from the other three fields as to constitute a separate historical specialty. Examples of such topics are environmental history, women's history, native American history, military history, and religious history.
Doctoral students should select their four fields in consultation with their major professor during their first quarter of study. The three written examinations in history must all be completed within a period of one month from the date of the first examination. Each of these examinations will be of three hours' duration. Within one week of passing the last of these examinations, the student must take an oral examination in all four fields. The minimum time allotted to this examination is two hours, but the time period may be extended as warranted by the four examiners. Before a student can advance to candidacy, a dissertation prospectus must be approved by the dissertation committee.
The doctoral dissertation. The doctoral dissertation must be an original work of historical research in the field of the candidate's specialization. It must be in clear prose, have intellectual depth, and demonstrate a mastery of historical methodology. When the dissertation is approved, the candidate may be asked to appear for an oral examination in the field of the dissertation.
Teaching assistantship. A candidate will be required to qualify for and (subject to the availability of funds) to hold a teaching assistantship or a research assistantship as part of the preparation for the Ph.D. degree.
Optional Ph.D. Emphasis in Women's Studies
The Women's Studies Program offers an interdisciplinary doctoral emphasis to students previously admitted to a Ph.D. program in art history, English, French, German, history, religious studies, or sociology. Students pursuing the emphasis in women's studies must complete four graduate courses; only one of the four required courses may be taken in the student's home department. The courses are Women's Studies 270, Feminist Epistemology; Women's Studies 280, Research Seminar; a course in feminist theory selected from those approved by the Women's Studies Program; and a topical seminar that addresses topics relevant to the study of women and gender, offered either in the Women's Studies Program or in another department. The student's doctoral committee must include a faculty member who is officially affiliated with the Women's Studies Program, either as one of the three required members or as an additional appointee. This committee conducts the student's Ph.D. qualifying examinations and supervises the student's dissertation research. Contact the Women's Studies Program for additional information on faculty interests, course offerings, and program requirements.
Graduate Program in Public Historical Studies
The Department of History has established within its graduate program a public history emphasis at the doctoral level and offers that emphasis in a unique joint doctoral program with the Capital Campus program of California State University in Sacramento, which brings together public history faculty of the two universities to form one faculty offering doctoral instruction between the two campuses.
Public Historical Studies trains professional historians to serve as research historians working within the community at large, rather than in academic institutions. Either as persons in various types of private practice, or on the staffs of public agencies-as in city, county, state, and federal governments-public historians will research and write historical studies of problems of concern to particular communities or political jurisdictions; aid them in recapturing and in recording and understanding their histories as communities and as organizations; and serve in a variety of other professional employments, such as giving testimony in court proceedings, preparing family histories, preparing environmental impact statements, conducting surveys of historic properties and other cultural resources, and working in historical agencies.
Students will specialize in (1) the history of policy, (2) community history, or (3) cultural resources management. Courses are also available in such fields as business history, women's history, historical editing, and legal history.
Students already holding an M.A. in public history or its equivalent apply directly to the joint UCSB-CSU Sacramento Ph.D. program or the current UCSB Ph.D. program. Students with a B.A. (or M.A. in another field) apply to the M.A. program at CSU Sacramento.
For further information, request from the Department of History a copy of the public historical studies brochure, which describes curriculum and other aspects of the program in detail.
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1AA-ZZ. Freshman Seminar in History
(1) Staff
Prerequisite: lower-division standing.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 3 units provided letter designations
are different. Letter grade required for majors
A seminar for lower-division students with an interest in history. Content will
vary with instructor.
2A-B-C. World History
(4-4-4) Staff
Survey of the peoples, cultures, and social, economic, and political systems
that have characterized the world's major civilizations in Europe, Asia, Africa,
the Americas, and Oceania.
A. Prehistory to 1000 CE
B. 1000 to 1700 CE
C. 1700 CE to present
3AA-ZZ. Special Topics
(1-4) Staff
Topics will vary per instructor.
4A-B-C. Western Civilization
(4-4-4) Staff
History 4A-B-C is a general survey course, designed to acquaint the student
with major developments that have influenced the course of western civilization
since the earliest times. These developments are as likely to be in religion,
the arts, and sciences as in the more traditional political field. Weekly discussion
sections are an important feature of this course, enabling the student to develop
and expand upon material presented during the lecture hour.
A. Prehistory to A.D. 1050
B. 1050 to 1715
C. 1715 to present
(F,W,S)
4AH-4BH-4CH. Western Civilization-Honors
(5-5-5) Staff
Prerequisite: honors standing.
Lecture will be concurrent with History 4A-B-C, along with a weekly two hour
honors seminar.
6. Historical Reasoning
(4) Drake
Prerequisites: a lower-division course in history and consent of instructor.
Introduction to the development of the history profession, with special attention
to the methods and goals of historical research. To develop criteria for judging
the value of historical scholarship. Strongly recommended for students considering
the Honors Program in History.
7. Great Issues in the History of Public Policy
(4) Bergstrom
Broad exploration of great issues in the history of public policy from ancient
times to the present, to understand basic ways in which societies make their
major decisions, the shared dynamics in the process, and how varied settings
affect it.
7H. Great Issues in the History of Public Policy-Honors
(1) Bergstrom
Prerequisites: concurrent enrollment in History 7 and consent of instructor.
Students will receive 1 unit for the honors seminar (7H) or a total of 5 units
for History 7.
8. Introduction to History of Latin America
(4) Cline, Rock
The course will deal with major issues in Latin America's historical formation:
pre-Hispanic cultures, the Spanish conquest, the role of colonial institutions,
the development of trade, eighteenth-century reform, independence, the formation
of nations; and identify major issues in current Latin American affairs.
8H. Introduction to History of Latin America-Honors
(1) Cline, Rock
Prerequisites: concurrent enrollment in History 8; honors standing; consent
of instructor.
Students will receive 1 unit for the honors seminar (8H) for a total of 5 units
for History 8.
10. Introduction to Chicano History
(4) Garcia
Prerequisite: lower-division standing.
Same course as Chicano Studies 10.
The historical heritage of the Chicano from Indian and Spanish origins to the
contemporary period. Particular stress will be placed on the interpretation
and analysis between key periods in world and U.S. history to the experience
of Chicanos.
11A-B. History of America's Racial and Ethnic Minorities
(4) Vargas
Not open for credit to students who have completed History 11.
History of America's racial and ethnic minorities focusing on Native American,
African American, Chicano, Asian American, and European immigrant men and women.
Includes a broad range of historical situations to determine specific meanings
in the evolution of a distinct multiracial and ethnic American experience.
A. Age of Conquest to 1900
B. 1900 to the present
13. The Ides of March
(4) Drake
Causes and consequences of the most famous date in Roman history, explored through
literature, film, and ancient sources. (Offered periodically.)
17A-B-C. The American People
(4-4-4) Staff
A survey of the leading issues in American life from colonial times to the present.
The course focuses on politics, cultural development, social conflict, economic
life, foreign policy, and influential ideas. Features discussion sections.
A. Colonial through Jacksonian era
B. Sectional crisis through progressivism
C. World War I to the present
(F,W,S)
17AH-17BH-17CH. The American People-Honors
(5-5-5) Staff
Prerequisites: honors standing; consent of instructor.
Lecture will be concurrent with History 17A-B-C, along with a weekly two hour
honors seminar.
45. Introduction to Islamic and Near Eastern Studies
(4) Gallagher
Same course as INEST 45.
Exploration of the ancient, medieval, and modern cultures of the Near and Middle
East and North America, and the religion, music, art, language, and daily life
of Muslim societies from Africa to Asia.
46. Survey of Middle Eastern History
(4) Gallagher
Course themes include rise of Islam, development of Islamic civilization, the
western impact, and current struggles and conflicts.
49. Survey of African History
(4) Miescher
An introduction to the history of Africa from the earliest times to the present.
Course themes include: organization of production, state formation, Africa and
the world economy, colonialism, resistance, power and identities in African
societies, current struggles and conflicts.
56. Introduction to Mexican History
(4) CLINE
Introduction to the basic issues and themes of Mexican history, from the prehispanic
era to the present.
78. The City in American History
(4) Staff
A chronological and topical survey of the American city from the colonial period
to the present.
80. East Asian Civilization
(4) Fogel
Same course as East Asian Cultural Studies 80.
A basic introduction to the history of East Asia focusing on the emergence and
evolution of Chinese civilization and its impact upon the distinctive indigenous
cultures of Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.
81. Inner Asian Civilizations
(4) Pai
Not open for credit to students who have completed History 83, or East Asian
Cultural Studies 83 or 81.
The history, culture, and society of the nomadic peoples of Inner Asia. Topics
include the rise of nomadism, the Silk Road, warfare, trade, and the interaction
between Steppe empires and sedentary civilizations of Asia.
82. Korean Culture and Society
(4) Pai
Same course as Korean 82. Not open for credit to students who have completed
History 80K or Korean 80K.
Introduction to the various features of traditional Korean civilization and
society covering its history (prehistory to the end of Japanese occupation in
1945) and topics in anthropology (kinship, inheritance, customs, religion, rice
production, and peasant economy).
84. China and the West
(4) Elliott
A broad introduction to the history of relations between the Middle Kingdom
and "the West" from the Silk Road and Jesuit missionaries to American businessmen,
covering commercial, cultural, intellectual, and technological exchange.
85. China's Last Emperor
(4) Elliott
Not open for credit to students who have completed History 19.
Introduction, through the life of "Henry" Puyi Aisin-Gioro, the last emperor
of the Qing dynasty, to major issues in the twentieth-century redefinition of
the Chinese nation, with a geographical focus on Northeast China. Topics include
democracy and fascism, individual and state, nationalism and national identity,
status of women, education, and the role of intellectuals.
87. Japanese History Through Art and Literature
(4) Roberts
Not open for credit to students who have completed History 90.
A basic introduction to the history of Japanese culture from its origins to
the present day, with particular emphasis on the evidence of architecture and
painting (presented through audiovisual modules). Selected examples of fiction
and poetry will also be used.
99. Introduction to Research
(1-4) Staff
Prerequisites: consent of department and instructor.
Students must have an overall grade-point average of 3.0. May be repeated for
credit to a maximum of 8 units, but only 4 units may be applied toward the major.
Students are limited to 5 units per quarter and 30 units total in all 98/99/198/199/199RA
courses combined.
Independent research under the guidance of a faculty member. Exceptional students
are offered an opportunity to undertake independent or collaborative research
or to act as interns for faculty-directed research projects.
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100H. Historical Writing
(4) Talbott
Prerequisite: two courses from the following: History 4AH, 4BH, 4CH, 6, 7H,
8H, 17AH, 17BH, and 17CH.
An intermediate-level honors seminar in which students read and critique major
primary and secondary works from a variety of periods and regions.
101G. Comparative Histories of Contested Sexualities and Same-Sex Practices
(4) LANSING/MIESCHER
Exploration of same-sex behavior in ancient Greek, pre-modern Oceania, medieval
Europe, modern Africa, and North America. Introduction to the theoretical questions
in the study of sexuality and how scholars have used these tools.
102AA-ZZ. Special Topics
(1-4) Staff
Topics will vary per instructor.
105. The Atomic Age
(4) Badash
Prerequisite: History 4C or 17C or upper-division standing.
The history of military uses of nuclear energy and the attendant problems. Topics
included: Manhattan Project, decision to use the bomb, legislation, AEC, arms
race, testing, fallout, civil defense, disarmament efforts, foreign programs,
espionage.
105P. Proseminar in Atomic Age Problems
(4) Badash
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Recommended preparation: History 105 or 106C; and Writing 109HU.
Seminar, with research paper, on relationship between science and technology
and society. Topics, one each course, will include Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Arms
Race, arms control, science and social responsibility, politics of science,
scientific advice to government, civilian uses of nuclear energy.
106A. The Origins of Western Physical Science, Antiquity to 1600
(4) Badash
Prerequisite: History 4A or 4B or upper-division standing.
The development of astronomy, physics, chemistry, and the organization of science,
traced from Babylonian times through the Greek, Roman, Islamic periods, and
the Middle Ages in the West, to the scientific renaissance. Emphasis on the
growth of scientific ideas.
106B. The Scientific Revolution, 1600 to 1875
(4) Badash
Prerequisite: History 4A or 4B or upper-division standing.
The establishment of heliocentric astronomy and mechanical philosophy by Galileo,
Newton, and others, the creation of scientific societies and periodicals, the
rise of chemical and electrical sciences, the influence of science upon the
Enlightenment, physical science survey in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
106C. Modern Physical Science 1875 to Present
(4) Badash
Prerequisite: History 4A or 4B or upper-division standing.
The second Scientific Revolution, including the discoveries of x-rays, radioactivity,
the electron, relativity, and quantum theory; the growth of atomic and nuclear
physics and of quantum mechanics; aspects of astronomy, chemistry, Nazi science,
scholars' migration, and discovery of nuclear fission.
106D. U.S. Science Policy
(4) Badash
Prerequisite: History 17C or 105 or upper-division standing.
From the time governments first funded scientific projects they had, consciously
or not, a science policy. What were the reasons for these expenditures? Topics
covered range from the Lewis and Clark Expedition to contemporary medical, environmental,
space, and defense research.
107A. History of the Biological Sciences: Antiquity to Circa 1600
(4) Osborne
Prerequisite: History 4A or 4B.
The work of Aristotle, Hippocrates, and Galen; bestiaries, herbals, medicines,
anatomy, to the time of Vesalius.
107B. History of the Biological Sciences: Circa 1600 to 1800
(4) Osborne
Prerequisite: History 4B.
Harvey and the circulation of blood, Descartes on animals, microscopy, natural
history, botany, morphology, animism, vitalism, to Buffon on cosmogony and cosmology.
107C. History of the Biological Sciences: Circa 1800 to the Present
(4) Osborne
Prerequisite: History 4B or 4C or 17B or 17C or 106A or 106B or upper-division
standing.
Same course as Environmental Studies 107C.
The work of Cuvier and Lamarck, natural theology, geology, Darwin, evolution,
natural selection, genetics, heredity, variation, modern synthesis, reductionism,
population ecology, molecular biology.
107E. History of Animal Experimentation
(4) Guerrini
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
Same course as Environmental Studies 107E.
Period: antiquity to present. Topics include the nature of experiment, its role
in various research programs, social and cultural contexts, the moral status
of animals, the ethics of animal experimentation, and scientific opposition.
107G. History of Global Environmental Problems
(4) Osborne
Prerequisites: Environmental Studies 1, or one course from History 4A-B-C,
106A-B-C, 107A-B-C.
Same course as Environmental Studies 107.
Survey of global environmental problems from antiquity to the present. Topics
include demography, agriculture, climate change, disease, and storage of toxic
waste.
107GP. Proseminar in the History of Global Environmental Problems
(4) Osborne
Prerequisite: History 107G or 106A-B-C or 107A-B-C.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Undergraduate research seminar in which students produce and present a research
paper on a topic of their choice on the history of environmental problems of
global importance.
107P. Proseminar on Darwinism and its Social Implications
(4) Osborne
Prerequisites: upper-division standing and consent of instructor.
Evolution, natural selection, religion, teleology, Social Darwinism, using the
writings of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Herbert Spencer, and William Graham Sumner.
110. Social History of Medicine
(4) Osborne, Guerrini
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
Course themes include the development of medicine and health care in the United
States, women and the medical profession, alternate medical systems, and current
crises in medical policy.
110D. Diseases in History
(4) Osborne, Guerrini
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
A study of the importance of communicable diseases in human history from prehistoric
times to the present.
110P. Proseminar on Science and Imperialism
(4) Osborne
Prerequisites: upper-division standing and consent of instructor.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Strategies for development in the French and British Empires of the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries, primarily in Africa and around the Pacific Rim. Scientific
development, "scientific colonialism," cultural imperialism.
110Q. Seminar in Medical History
(4) Osborne, Guerrini
Prerequisite: History 110 (may be taken concurrently).
Topics in Asian, African, European, and American medical systems focusing on
their historical evolution in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
111A-B. History of Greece
(4-4) Staff
Prerequisite: History 4A or upper-division standing.
A. From the Bronze Age through 399 B.C.
B. From 399 to 31 B.C.
111P. Proseminar in Ancient History
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: one course from History 111A-B,
113A-B.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Research seminar in ancient history. A research paper will be required.
112F. Women in the Ancient Greek World
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: History 4A or upper-division standing.
A history of the evolving roles of women in Greek society, from the Bronze Age
to Hellenistic and Roman times, as portrayed by literature, archaeology, and
the fine arts.
113A-B. Roman History
(4-4) Drake
Prerequisite: History 4A or upper-division standing.
A. From Neolithic times to the fall of the Republic.
B. The Roman Empire.
113P. Proseminar in Roman History
(4) Drake
Prerequisite: History 113A or 113B.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Recommended preparation: Writing 109HU.
Students produce a research paper on a topic of their choice in the history
of either the Republic or Empire. From time to time, a seminar might be devoted
to aspects of a particular topic.
114A-B. History of Christianity
(4-4) Friesen
Prerequisites: any two quarters of History 4A-B-C; upper-division students
only.
A. Beginning to 800
B. 800 to 1300
114C-D. History of Christianity
(4-4) Friesen
Prerequisites: any two quarters of History 4A-B-C.
C. 1300 to 1648
D. 1648 to present
114P. Proseminar in the History of Christianity
(4) Friesen
Prerequisites: History 4A and 114A.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units
History of Christian spirituality from Augustine (fifth century) to Traherne
(seventeenth century).
115. The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe: 300 to 1050
(4) Lansing
Prerequisite: History 4A.
The political, economic, and cultural evolution of Europe from the time of Constantine
to the mid-eleventh century.
115P. Proseminar in Medieval History
(4) Lansing
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Seminar which trains students in the methods of historical research. A research
paper will be written on a topic within the general area of medieval European
history.
115Q. Special Studies in Medieval European History
(1-4) Lansing
Prerequisite: History 115 or 116.
May be taken more than once.
Study of specified topics in medieval European history. A research paper will
be required.
116. The Civilization of the High Middle Ages: 1050 to 1350
(4) Lansing
Prerequisite: History 4B.
European civilization during the high Middle Ages. The struggle between church
and state, the rise of feudal monarchies, the revival of commerce, and the flowering
of medieval culture.
117A. Towns, Trade, and Urban Culture in the Middle Ages
(4) Farmer
Prerequisite: History 4B or upper-division standing.
The social and cultural history of medieval towns from the sixth through the
sixteenth century: Roman survivals; dark age "commerce;" transition from "gift"
to money economy; social unrest; the emergence of urban classes and urban culture.
117B. Peasants and Lords: The Rural History of the Middle Ages
(4) Farmer
Prerequisite: History 4B or upper-division standing.
Social and cultural history of medieval countryside: transition from slavery
to serfdom; formation of knightly class; emergence of the manorial and open
field systems; social and demographic crises of the later middle ages; rural
culture and religion.
117C. Women, the Family, and Sexuality in the Middle Ages
(4) Farmer
Prerequisite: History 4B or upper-division standing.
Not open for credit to students who have completed History 117. Same course
as Women's Studies 117C.
Family structure; perceptions and ideals of intimate and familial relations;
status, perceptions, and experiences of women in western Europe circa 400-1400
A.D. Special attention on social, political, and religious contexts.
117D. Feminist Perspectives on Jewish and Christian Traditions
(4) Farmer, Hecht
Prerequisite: History 4B or upper-division standing.
Same course as Interdisciplinary 185HF.
This seminar examines selected "clanic" texts (Biblical, Talmudic, Patristic)
dealing with women, gender, and sexuality; as well as historic and contemporary
uses, reinterpretations and responses to those texts.
117P. Proseminar on Medieval Social History
(4) Farmer
Prerequisite: History 117A or 117B or 117C.
Undergraduate research seminar on selected topics in medieval social history.
118. Varieties of Utopianism and Social Reform from Joachim of Fiore to
Karl Marx
(4) Friesen
Prerequisite: History 4B.
A study of the varieties of utopian thought from Joachim of Fiore (1200) to
Karl Marx (1848) and the relevance of this thought to social reform.
119. The Crusades and the Near East, 1095-1291
(4) Humphreys
Prerequisite: History 4A and 4B; or upper-division standing.
Survey of the Crusades from their origins to the fall of Acre in 1291; ideology
of the Crusading movement; history and institutions of the crusader states in
the Near East; Muslim responses, ideological and political, to the Crusader
presence.
119Q. Topics in History of the Crusades
(4) Humphreys
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
Recommended preparation: previous course on Medieval Europe or the Middle East.
Topics on the period of the Crusades. These will vary from year to year: e.g.,
the idea of holy war and jihad, the development of Mediterranean commerce; cultural
contact between Islam and Christendom. Term paper required.
120. Orwell's Century
(4) Talbott
Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
The writings of the author of 1984 read in the light of major twentieth-century
themes: imperialism, socialism, the Great Depression, the Spanish Civil War,
fascism, World War II, totalitarianism, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and
the Bosnian War.
121A. Renaissance Italy, 1300-1550
(4) Staff
Not open for credit to students who have completed History 121D.
The cultural, political, social, and gender history of the Italian city republics
and court societies. Examination of how contemporaries viewed their own society,
in an attempt to answer the intriguing question of what was the Italian Renaissance?
121B. Renaissance Europe: 1348-1600
(4) Staff
Not open for credit to students who have completed History 121E.
The history of Northern Europe from the Black Death through the sixteenth. Topics
include: social disorders, warfare, intellectual and religious culture, changes
in Northern Europe prompted by spreading Renaissance ideas, explorations of
the "New World," and religious dispute.
121P. Proseminar in Renaissance Europe
(4) Bernstein
Prerequisite: History 121A or 121B.
Recommended preparation: Writing 109HU.
A seminar on Renaissance Europe, 1300-1600. Students develop research skills
and use them to complete a research topic in Renaissance history.
122A-B. Europe in the Age of the Reformation: 1500-1648
(4-4) Friesen
Prerequisite: History 4B.
The political, economic, social, and cultural evolution of Europe, 1500-1648.
122P. Proseminar in Reformation Europe
(4) Friesen
Prerequisite: History 122A or 122B.
Seminar on the political, economic, social, and cultural evolution of Europe,
1500-1648. A research paper will be required.
123A-B-C. History of Europe, 1815-Present
(4-4-4) Lindemann, Mouré, Talbott
Prerequisite: History 4C.
A survey of European history from 1815 to the present: industrialization; the
impact of war; revolution in politics, culture, science, society; and the rise
and fall of overseas empires, fascism, and communism.
123P. Proseminar in the History of Europe, 1815-Present
(4) Lindemann, Mouré, Talbott
Prerequisite: History 123A or 123B or 123C.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Recommended preparation: Writing 109HU.
Research seminar in the history of Europe from 1815 to the present.
124A. Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Europe, 1750-1914
(4) Rappaport
Prerequisite: History 4C.
Same course as Women's Studies 124A.
The roles of women, gender, and sexuality in eighteenth and nineteenth century
Europe. Exploration of the nature of women and revolution: religious, legal,
scientific, and popular conceptions of gender and sexuality; industrialization
and family life, the rise of organized feminism.
124B. Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Europe, 1914-Present
(4) Rappaport
Prerequisite: History 4C.
Same course as Women's Studies 124B.
The relationship between war, revolution, fascism, socialism, feminism, and
consumerism and the history of the family, gender, and sexual identities in
the twentieth century.
124Q. Readings in Modern European Women's History
(4) Rappaport
Prerequisite: History 4C.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Reading seminar on topics in European women and the history of gender. Term
paper required.
124WP. Proseminar in European Women's History
(4) Rappaport
Prerequisite: History 124A or 124B or 4C.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Research seminar on topics related to the history of women, gender, and sexuality
in modern European history.
126A. History of Eastern Europe Before 1918
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: History 4B or 4C.
Not open for credit to students who have completed History 124R.
The rise of Nationalism in Danubian Europe 1700-1918; including topics in nationalities
and national minorities, nationalism and liberalism, and Danubian Europe from
the Enlightenment to World War I.
126B. History of Eastern Europe Since 1918
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: History 4C.
Not open for credit to students who have completed History 126.
A political, social, and economic history of southeastern Europe-especially
of the successor states to the Hapsburg monarchy of Czechoslovakia, Hungary,
Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia-from 1918 to the present.
126P. Proseminar in Eastern European History
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: History 126A or 126B.
Not open for credit to students who have completed History 124PS. May be repeated
for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Research seminar in the history of Eastern Europe.
126Q. Special Topics in Eastern and Central European History
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: History 4B or 4C or upper-division standing.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 12 units.
Lecture course in special areas of Eastern or Central European history. See
department office for course topics.
128F. Twentieth-Century Europe: History and Fiction
(4) Mouré
Prerequisite: History 4C.
Examines major political, social, and intellectual change in twentieth-century
Europe through the works of contemporary writers.
128P. Proseminar in Twentieth-Century Europe
(4) Lindemann, Mouré
Prerequisite: History 128A or 128B.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Special topics in European history from World War I to present.
128Q. Topics in Twentieth-Century Europe
(4) Talbott, Lindemann, Mouré
Prerequisite: History 128A or 128B or 128C or upper-division standing.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Topics in twentieth-century European history. Format varies according to topic.
129A-B-C. Europe in the Seventeenth Century
(4-4-4) Sonnino
Prerequisite: History 4B or upper-division standing.
Economic, social, political, and intellectual history of the seventeenth century:
A. 1610-1648
B. 1648-1685
C. 1685-1715
129D-E-F. Europe in the Eighteenth Century
(4-4-4) Sonnino
Prerequisite: History 4C or upper-division standing.
Economic, social, political, and intellectual history of the eighteenth century.
D. 1715 to 1763
E. 1763 to 1789
F. 1789 to 1815
130A. The Social History of European Industrialization
(4) Mouré
Prerequisite: History 4C.
The social history of the Industrial Revolution in Europe, 1750-1914. Surveys
impact of industrialization on the organization of work, social organization
and behavior, urbanization, and the development of social distinctions by class
and gender.
130B. European Economic History: The Twentieth Century
(4) Mouré
Prerequisite: History 4C.
The evolution of the European economy from the first World War to the present
emphasizing the formation and development of the European Union.
130P. Proseminar in European Economic History
(4) Mouré
Prerequisite: History 130A or 130B.
May be repeated for credit up to a maximum of 8 units.
A research seminar for students who have completed one other quarter of History
130, and wish to undertake a research project on some aspect of European economic
development in the nineteenth or twentieth century.
130Y. Economy and State in the Twentieth Century
(4) Brownlee
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
Compares the development of national economic and social policy in Europe, the
United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan since 1900.
131F. Anti-Semite and Jew in Modern Europe and America, 1870 to Present
(4) Lindemann
Prerequisite: History 4C.
A study of modern anti-Semitism, beginning with the appearance of political
anti-Semitism in Germany and Austria-Hungary; the Dreyfus Affair; Jewish patriots
and revolutionaries; Nazism and the Jews; Zionism; anti-Semitism since WW II.
131P. Proseminar in the History of Anti-Semitism in Modern Europe and America
(4) Lindemann
Prerequisite: History 131F.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Recommended preparation: Writing 109HU.
Research seminar in the history of anti-semitism in Europe and America.
132. War and Society Since 1789
(4) Talbott
Prerequisite: History 4C.
Not open for credit to students who have completed History 138.
Topics in war, the state and society since 1789. Origins and consequences of
wars, and the political, social, and economic aspects of both land and sea warfare.
A seminar, with limited enrollment.
133A. Nineteenth Century Germany
(4) Marcuse
Prerequisite: History 4C.
Not open for credit to students who have completed History 193A.
Survey of the history of the German states from the French Revolution through
the stages of industrialization and national unification to World War I. Focus
on the development and specific nature of German society and political culture.
133B. Twentieth Century Germany, Part I
(4) Marcuse
Prerequisite: History 4C.
Not open for credit to students who have completed History 193B.
Examination of German history from the beginning of the twentieth century to
World War II. Topics include Germany's role in the first World War, the German
Revolution of 1918-19, the Weimar Republic, and the National-Socialist state
and its aims in World War II and the Holocaust.
133C. Twentieth Century Germany, Part II
(4) Marcuse
Prerequisite: History 4C.
After examining development during the last years of World War II, this course
traces the histories of East and West Germany from 1945 to unification in 1989.
133D. The Holocaust in German History
(4) Marcuse
Prerequisite: History 4C.
Not open for credit to students who have completed History 193D.
The Nazi campaign of racial purification through eugenics and mass murder can
be considered one of the watershed events of Western civilization. This course
examines the historical, social, political, and economic factors which combined
to result in the Holocaust, as well as some of the consequences of that event
for German and world history.
133F. German History in Literature
(4) Marcuse
Prerequisite: History 4A or 4B or 4C.
An exploration of topics in nineteenth and twentieth century German history
through works of literature.
133P. Proseminar in German History
(4) Marcuse
Prerequisite: History 133A or 133B or 133C or 133D.
May be repeated for credit in combination with History 193P to a maximum of
8 units.
Recommended preparation: Writing 109HU.
Students learn research skills and use them to explore topics in twentieth century
German history.
133Q. Readings on the Holocaust
(4) Marcuse
Prerequisite: History 4C or 133A or 113B or 133C or 133D or 133F.
Exploration of selected topics pertaining to the Holocaust through memoirs,
historiography, and works of fiction. The course is structured as a dialog between
students and the instructor based on written analyses of the literature.
135A-B-C. History of Russia
(4-4-4) Hasegawa
Prerequisites: History 4B or 4C or upper-division standing.
A. Russia to 1800. A survey of Russian history from the Kievan and Muscovite
periods to the end of the eighteenth century. Emphasis placed on the imperial
period after Peter the Great.
B. 1800-1917. A survey of Russian history from the reign of Alexander I to the
Russian Revolution.
C. 1917-present. A history of the Soviet Union from the Russian Revolution of
1917 to its collapse, focusing on political and social history.
135P. Proseminar in Modern Russian/Soviet History
(4) Hasegawa
Prerequisite: History 135B or 135C.
Research seminar in modern Russian and Soviet history.
135Q. Special Topics in Russian History
(4) Hasegawa
Prerequisite: History 135A or 135B or 135C; upper-division standing.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Readings and discussion on selected topics in Russian history.
135S. Readings in Russian History
(1) Hasegawa
Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment in History 135A or 135B or 135C.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 3 units.
Weekly undergraduate seminar for in-depth discussion of the reading assigned
for History 135A, 135B, or 135C.
137A-B. The Origins of Contemporary France
(4) Talbott, Mouré
Prerequisite: History 4C or upper-division standing.
History 137A not open for credit to students who have completed History 137.
Transformation of a tradition-bound rural society into a leading industrial
power
A. 1815 to World War I
B. World War I to present
138B. The Vietnam Wars
(4) Logevall
Prerequisite: History 17C or 138A or 166B or 166C or 171B or upper-division
standing.
This course covers the history of wars fought in Vietnam since the 1940s, with
particular attention to the long period of American involvement. The events
will be considered in their relationship to Vietnamese history, American politics
and society, and the concurrent Cold War.
138P. Proseminar in the Vietnam Wars
(4) Logevall
Prerequisite: History 138B or 171B.
Recommended preparation: Writing 109HU.
Research seminar on a topic in the history of the Vietnam Wars.
140A-B. Early Modern Britain
(4-4) McGee
Prerequisite: sophomore or junior or senior standing.
A history of England from the late Middle Ages to the eighteenth century.
140AH-BH. Early Modern Britain
(1-1) McGee
Prerequisites: concurrent enrollment in History 140A-B and consent of instructor.
A weekly, one-hour section, open to any students who would like to supplement
the material of the lecture course with additional readings and discussion.
140C. Eighteenth-Century Britain
(4) Guerrini
Prerequisite: History 4B or 4C.
British history (including Scotland, Ireland, and Wales) from the Glorious Revolution
to the Reform Act (1689-1832). Topics include the Enlightenment, the Industrial
Revolution, the growth (and partial loss) of Empire, and the development of
British identity.
140IA-IB. The History of Modern Ireland
(4-4) McGee
Prerequisite: sophomore or junior or senior standing.
A history of Ireland since 1500.
140IP. Proseminar in the History of Modern Ireland
(4) McGee
Prerequisite: History 140IA or 140IB.
Recommended preparation: Writing 109HU.
Proseminar in the history of Ireland from 1500 to the present.
140P. Proseminar in Early Modern British History
(4) McGee
Prerequisites: History 140A and 140B.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Recommended preparation: Writing 109HU.
A writing seminar in which emphasis is placed upon the use of primary sources.
141A. Nineteenth-Century Britain
(4) Rappaport
Prerequisite: History 4C or 140A or 140B or 140C.
The rise of Britain as an industrial, urban, and imperial nation. Topics include
the nature of industrialization, urbanization, and class formation, the role
of gender and race in cultural society, the arts, and the construction of Victorian
identities.
141B. Twentieth-Century Britain
(4) Rappaport
Prerequisite: History 4C or 140A or 140B or 140C or 141A.
Culture, society, and politics in Britain since 1914. Topics include the impact
of war on society, the economy and empire; the welfare state and changing roles
of women, consumer and youth cultures; the new left and new right.
141P. Proseminar in Modern British History
(4) Rappaport
Prerequisite: History 141A or 141B.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Research in modern British social, cultural, economic, and political history.
141Q. Readings in Modern British History
(4) Rappaport
Prerequisite: History 4C.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Exploration of selected topics pertaining to modern British history through
memoirs, historiography, and works of fiction. The course is structured as a
dialog between students and the instructor based on written analyses of the
literature.
142. History of North Africa
(4) Gallagher
Prerequisite: History 46 or upper-division standing.
Survey of the history of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya in the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries. Themes include the imposition of colonial rule, revolutionary
struggles, and post-independence development.
143. The Nile Quest
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: History 49.
An examination of African and Victorian societies during the half century in
which English explorers sought the source of the Nile. The greatest geographical
puzzle of the nineteenth century, the search opened Africa to European partition,
imperialism and modernization.
143P. Proseminar in the Nile Quest
(4) Miescher
Prerequisite: History 143.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
An undergraduate research seminar for students who have taken History 143 and
wish to conduct more intensive studies of the Nile Valley.
143Q. Special Topics in African History
(4) Miescher
Prerequisite: History 49 or 147A or 147B or 147C or upper-division standing.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Focus on special topics in African history. Format will vary according to topic.
144. Resistance in African History
(4) Miescher
Prerequisite: History 49 or 147A or 147B or upper-division standing.
Exploration of the themes of domination and resistance, struggles within African
societies and outside interventions, in nineteenth and twentieth-century Africa.
Examination of forms of resistance in a series of case studies and discussion
of analytical concepts.
145A. The Islamic World, I: The Formation of Islamic Civilization, 600-1000A.D.
(4) Humphreys
Prerequisite: History 46 or INEST 45 or upper-division standing.
The rise of a world religion and the emergence of a new multi-ethic society
under its aegis; the evolution of social and political institutions within the
Universal caliphate; the creation of a specifically Islamic culture and intellectual
life.
145B. The Islamic World, II: Expansion and Consolidation, 1000-1700
(4) Humphreys
Prerequisite: History 46 or INEST 45 or upper-division standing.
Recommended preparation: History 145A.
The failure of the caliphate and the search for a new political order; Turkish
military and political domination; the structures of urban society; the rebirth
of Persian literature; the classical formulations of Islamic religious thought.
145D. War and Diplomacy in the Middle East: 1876-Present
(4) Humphreys
Prerequisite: History 46 or INEST 45 or upper-division standing.
Selected problems in the relations of Middle Eastern states within the region
and with external powers. The problems studied will vary from year to year.
Sample topics: World War I settlement, Mossadegh era in Iran, Israeli invasion
of Lebanon (1982).
145P. Proseminar in the History of Islamic Societies
(4) Humphreys
Prerequisite: History 46 or 145A or 145B or 145D or 146A or 146B.
A weekly seminar on a topic in the history of the Islamic world, from 600 A.D.
to modern times. A research paper is required.
145Q. Tradition and Modernity in Islamic Political Thought
(4) Humphreys
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
The emergence of an Islamic tradition of political thought in medieval times,
and the reshaping of this tradition to meet the demands of modernity. Key problems:
the purposes of government, autocracy versus popular participation, the nature
of legitimacy.
146A-B. History of the Modern Middle East
(4-4) Gallagher
Prerequisite: History 46 or upper-division standing.
Course themes include the western impact, forms of resistance, and political,
social, economic, and religious dimensions of current crises in Turkey, Iran,
and the Arab world.
A. The nineteenth century
B. The twentieth century
146P. Proseminar in the History of the Modern Middle East
(4) Gallagher
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Recommended preparation: Writing 109HU.
A weekly seminar on a topic in modern Middle East history. A research paper
will be required.
146T. History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
(4) Gallagher
Prerequisite: History 46 or upper-division standing.
History of the Arab-Israeli conflict from the mid-nineteenth century to the
present. Course themes include evolution of Zionism, Palestine before World
War I, the British Mandate, World War II, the Arab-Israeli Wars, rise of Palestinian
nationalism, and Israeli and Palestinian societies today.
146PW. Proseminar on Women in Middle Eastern History
(4) Gallagher
Prerequisite: History 146A or 146B.
A weekly seminar focusing on women in Middle Eastern history. A research paper
will be required.
146W. Women in Middle Eastern History
(4) Gallagher
A social history of women in the Middle East from the rise of Islam to the present.
the course will investiage women's diverse and rapidly changing political, economical,
and social roles in the region emphasizing contemporary feminist and Islamist
movements.
147A-B. Modern African History
(4-4) Miescher
Prerequisite: History 49 or upper-division standing.
A historical survey of sub-Saharan Africa since 1800. Themes include: pre-colonial
states and society, Africa and the world economy, colonialism, labor and migration,
gender, missionary activities, constructions of ethnicities and custom, resistance
and nationalism, popular culture, post-colonial crisis and struggles.
147G. Gender and Power in Modern African History
(4) Miescher
Prerequisite: History 49 or 147A or 147B or upper-division standing.
Examination of gender, power, and authority among and between men and women
in response to socioeconomic transformations in nineteenth and twentieth-century
Africa. Themes include interpretations of gender, organization of labor, the
missionary project, the state, and colonial rule.
147PP. Proseminar in Modern African History
(4) Miescher
Prerequisite: History 49 or 147A or 147B or upper-division standing.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Recommended preparation: Writing 109HU.
A seminar on a topic in modern African history. A research paper is required.
147Q. Readings on African History
(4) Miescher
Prerequisite: History 49 or 147A or 147B.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units. Same course as Women's Studies
147Q.
A discussion and reading seminar on selected topics in African history.
151A-B-C. Latin American History
(4-4) Cline, Rock, Dutra, Mendez
Prerequisite: History 8 or upper-division standing.
A. A general survey of the social, economic, institutional, and intellectual
history of colonial Spanish America (1492-1800), with comparisons to colonial
Brazil.
B. Nineteenth-century Latin America. Topics include: the independence movements,
the consolidation of the new states, and the rise of export-oriented economies.
C. Twentieth-century Latin America: the export economies, industrialization,
the rise of U. S. hegemony; populism and military dictatorship in the postwar
period; the Mexican and Cuban revolution; Vargas, Peron, Cardenas, Castro, and
Allende.
151CU. History of Cuba
(4) Cline
Prerequisite: History 8 or upper-division standing.
A survey of Cuban history from Columbas to Castro.
151FQ. History and Film in Latin America
(4) Mendez
Prerequisite: History 8.
A weekly seminar discussing films relevant to different periods and topics.
The history of Latin America combined with selected readings. Written assignments
required.
151P. Proseminar in Latin American History
(4) Rock, Mendez
Prerequisite: History 8 or upper-division standing.
Recommended preparation: Writing 109HU.
A weekly seminar in the history of Latin America. A research paper will be required.
151Q. Readings in Latin America History
(4) Mendez
Prerequisite: History 8.
A weekly reading seminar on special topics in the history of Latin America.
Depending on the topic, it may include primary sources and works of fiction.
Written assignments required.
151W. Women in Latin American History
(4) Cline
Prerequisite: History 8 or upper-division standing.
A survey of the historical role of women in Latin America from the prehispanic
period to the present.
151WP. Proseminar in the History of Latin American Women
(4) Cline
Prerequisite: History 8 or upper-division standing.
A proseminar dealing with major issues in the history of women in Latin America,
colonial era to the present.
152. Comparative Slavery in the Americas
(4) Cline
Prerequisite: History 8 or upper-division standing.
Comparative examination of slavery and other forced labor in Spanish, Portuguese,
French, and English America from the sixteenth century through abolition in
the nineteenth.
153. Comparative Seaborne Empires: 1415 to 1825
(4) Dutra
Prerequisite: a lower-division course in history or upper-division standing.
Analysis of the similarities and differences between the overseas activities
of Portugal, Spain, France, England, and the United Provinces of the Netherlands.
153L. History of Argentina from Spanish Settlement to the Present Day
(4) Rock
Prerequisite: History 8 or upper-division standing.
A case study in economic underdevelopment and political instability.
153P. Special Studies in the History of Overseas Expansion: 1415-1825
(4) Dutra
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Recommended preparation: Writing 109HU.
A weekly seminar on overseas expansion (Portugal, Spain, England, France, and
the Netherlands), 1415-1825. A research paper will be required.
154LA. Andean History: Prehispanic and Colonial Periods
(4) Mendez
Prerequisite: History 8.
Early precolumbian states; the Inca empire; the Spanish conquest of the Inca;
the formation of a colonial Andean society; movements toward independence to
the end of the colonial period.
154LB. Andean History: The National Period
(4) Mendez
Prerequisite: History 8.
The birth of the modern Andean republics; the shaping of national identity;
the problem of "race''; Indigensmo; political movements and revolutions from
the early nineteenth century to the present.
154Q. Special Topics in Andean History
(4) Mendez
Prerequisite: History 8 or 154B or 154LA.
A weekly seminar on special topics relevant to Andean history from the pre-Columbia
period to the present.
155A-B. History of Portugal
(4-4) Dutra
Prerequisite: a lower-division course in history or upper-division standing.
A. A general survey of Portugal from its origins to 1580 with an emphasis on
social, economic, and cultural history.
B. Modern Portugal, 1580 to the present.
155E-F. Portugal Overseas
(4-4) Dutra
Prerequisite: a lower-division course in history or upper-division standing.
Not open for credit to students who have completed History 154A-B.
E. A comparative analysis of Portuguese activity in Africa, Asia, and America,
1415 to 1825.
F. The Portuguese in Africa and Asia, 1826 to the present.
155P. Proseminar in the History of Portugal and Portuguese Expansion
(4) Dutra
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Recommended preparation: Writing 109HU.
A weekly seminar on the history of Portugal including topics on its origins
to the present and Portuguese expansion in Africa, Asia, and America. A research
paper will be required.
156A. History of Mexico
(4) Cline
Prerequisite: History 8 or upper-division standing.
Socioeconomic history of colonial Mexico with special attention on the indigenous
peoples.
156B. History of Mexico
(4) Cline
Prerequisite: History 8 or 156A.
Late colonial period, independence, early Republic, the Liberal Reform, French
Intervention, and Restored Republic to 1876.
156C. History of Mexico
(4) Cline
Prerequisite: History 8 or 156A.
From the Porfiriato and Mexican Revolution to the 1990's.
156AH-BH-CH. History of Mexico-Honors
(1-1-1) Cline
Prerequisites: upper-division standing; honors standing.
Honors seminar for History 156A-B-C.
156I. Indians of Colonial Mexico
(4) Cline
Prerequisites: History 8 or upper-division standing.
Not open for credit to students who have completed History 150I.
History of Colonial Nahuas, particularly focusing on indigenous sources in translation.
156IP. Proseminar on the Indians of Colonial Mexico
(4) Cline
Prerequisite: History 8 or 156I.
Recommended preparation: Writing 109HU.
Undergraduate research seminar on the history of Indians in Colonial Mexico.
156P. Proseminar in Mexican History
(4) Cline
Prerequisite: History 156A or 156B.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Recommended preparation: Writing 109HU.
Undergraduate research seminar on topics in Mexican social and economic history.
156R. The Mexican Revolution
(4) Cline
Prerequisite: History 8 or 156B or upper-division standing.
Survey of the events leading to the Mexican Revolution and its military phase
(1910-1920). Through readings, lectures, films, and music students gain an understanding
of the causes of the Revolution and its military, social, economic, and diplomatic
course.
157A-B. History of Brazil
(4-4) Dutra
Prerequisite: a lower-division course in history or upper-division standing.
A general survey of the history of Brazil in two quarters:
A. From the discovery of the New World to the formation of the empire. (Offered
every other year; alternates with History 155A).
B. Modern Brazil. (Offered every other year; alternates with History 155B).
157C. Intellectual History of Brazil: Modern Period
(4) Dutra
Prerequisite: a lower-division course in history or upper-division standing.
Focuses on the impact of intellectuals and ideas on Brazilian society in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
157P. Proseminar in the History of Brazil
(4) Dutra
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Recommended preparation: Writing 109HU.
A weekly seminar on the history of Brazil in the colonial and modern periods.
A research paper is required.
158A. History of Christianity in Latin America
(4) Cline
Prerequisite: History 8 or upper-division standing.
Not open for credit to students who have completed History 158L.
A survey of Christianity in early Latin America: an examination of issues surrounding
conversion of native peoples; establishment of the church as an institution;
social issues regarding the church (race, class, gender); the church as an economic
institution; the Inquisition and the regulation of social mores.
158AH-BH. History of Christianity in Latin America
(1-1) Cline
Prerequisite: History 158A or 158B.
Honors seminar for History 158A-B.
158B. History of Christianity in Latin America
(4) Cline
Prerequisite: History 8 or upper-division standing.
A survey of post-independence Christianity: institutional changes due to political
independence; role of the church in Latin American politics; liberation theology;
rise of evangelical Protestantism.
158P Proseminar in Latin American Christianity
(4) Cline
Prerequisites: History 8 or upper-division standing.
Not open for credit to students who have completed History 158LP.
Recommended preparation: Writing 109HU.
A weekly seminar in the history of Christianity in Latin America. A research
paper will be required.
159A-B. Women in American History
(4-4) Cohen, Dehart
Prerequisites: any two quarters of History 17A-B-C or upper-division standing.
Same course as Women's Studies 159A-B
Social history of women in America. Changing marriage, reproduction and work
patterns, and cultural values about the female role. Attention to racial, class
and ethnic differences. Analysis of feminist thought and the several women's
movements.
A. Colonial period to 1800
B. From 1800-1900
159C. Women in American History
(4) Cohen, Dehart
Same course as Women's Studies 159C.
Social history of women in America. Changing marriage, reproduction and work
patterns, and cultural values about the female role. Attention to racial, class
and ethnic differences. Analysis of feminist thought and the several women's
movements. From 1900 to the present.
159P. Proseminar in Women's History
(4) Cohen, DeHart
Prerequisite: History 159A or 159B or 159C or a prior course in women's studies.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Research seminar on the history of women in America.
160A. The American South to 1865
(4) Harris
Prerequisite: History 17A or upper-division standing.
The origins and development of distinctive economic, social, political, and
cultural patterns in the ante-bellum South.
160B. The American South, 1865 to the Present
(4) Harris
Prerequisite: History 17B or 17C or upper-division standing.
Change and resistance to change in Southern economic, social, political, and
cultural life since the Civil War.
160P. Proseminar in the History of the American South
(4) Harris
Prerequisite: History 160A or 160B.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Research in selected problems in the history of the American South.
161A-B. Colonial and Revolutionary America
(4-4) Cohen, Plane
Prerequisite: History 17A or upper-division standing.
A social and political history of colonial and revolutionary America with emphasis
on the interaction of Native American, Europeans, and African Americans. The
course will combine lectures with discussion of both primary and secondary sources.
A. From initial settlement to the mid-eighteenth century
B. From mid-eighteenth century to 1800
161P. Proseminar in Early American History
(4) Cohen, Plane
Prerequisite: History 17A or upper-division standing.
Recommended preparation: Writing 109HU.
A research seminar on early American history.
161Q. Special Studies in Early American History
(4) Cohen, Plane
Prerequisite: History 17A or upper-division standing.
Readings and discussions on selected topics in early American history. Topics,
which will change each year, include: witchcraft in comparative perspective
(England and America), race in seventeenth-century America, work and labor in
preindustrial America. Research paper will be required.
162A. The Age of Jefferson
(4) Majewski
Prerequisite: History 17A or upper-division standing.
History of the United States from the American Revolution to the War of 1812,
emphasizing the creation of the federal government, the rise of political parties,
and the emergence of national character.
162B. The Age of Jackson
(4) Majewski
Prerequisite: History 17A or upper-division standing.
History of the United States from 1815 to 1840, emphasizing the political, economic,
and social transitions of that period, and the changes in popular attitudes
and expectations which culminated in Jacksonian Democracy.
162P. Proseminar in American Political History From 1788-1840
(4) Majewski
Prerequisite: History 17B or 162A or 162B.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Recommended preparation: Writing 109HU.
Research seminar in the history of American political culture during the age
of Jefferson and Jackson (1788-1840).
163A. Women and Public Policy in Twentieth-Century America
(4) DeHart
Prerequisite: History 159A or 159B or 159C or a prior course in women's studies.
Same course as Women's Studies 163A.
How gender-based cultural attitudes and social roles, collective action, and
economic and social change interacted to shape law and public policy with respect
to work, family, legal and reproductive rights. From 1900 through approximately
1945.
163B. Women and Public Policy in Twentieth-Century America
(4) DeHart
Prerequisite: History 159A or 159B or 159C or a prior course in women's studies.
Same course as Women's Studies 163B.
How gender-based cultural attitudes and social roles, collective action, and
economic and social change interacted to shape law and public policy with respect
to work, family, legal and reproductive rights. From World War II to the present.
163P. Proseminar on Women and Public Policy Issues in Twentieth-Century
America
(4) DeHart
Prerequisites: History 159A or 159B or 159C or 163A or 163B or a prior course
in women's studies.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
A research seminar utilizing team research and focusing on basic problems in
public policy to be identified each year. Will use traditional sources and oral
history, interviewing community leaders, government officials, etc. Individual
papers will be integrated into group reports.
164C. Civil War and Reconstruction
(4) Majewski
Prerequisite: History 17B or upper-division standing.
A history of the United States during the second half of the nineteenth century.
Emphasis is placed on the causes of the Civil War, the outstanding developments
of the war itself, and the major consequences of the Reconstruction period.
164CP. Proseminar in Civil War and Reconstruction
(4) Majewski
Prerequisite: History 164C or History 17B.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Research seminar on events leading up to the outbreak of the Civil War.
164IA-IB. American Immigration
(4-4) Spickard
Prerequisite: History 17A or 17B or 17C or upper-division standing.
U.S. immigration history from the eighteenth century to the twentieth. Examines
the forces that brought people from various parts of the globe to the U.S.,
their experiences in migrating and in subsequent generations, and enduring racial
and ethnic hierarchies.
164IP. Proseminar on American Immigration History
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: History 164I or History 17B.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Research seminar on American immigration history in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries and the evolution of American immigration.
164IQ. Special Topics in American Immigration
(4) Chan
Prerequisite: Global Studies 1 or History 17A or 17B or 17C or upper-division
standing.
Same course as Global Studies 164.
A survey of selected aspects of American immigration history in the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries. Compares immigration from Europe, Asia, Latin America,
and elsewhere within the framework of U.S. immigration policy and changing social,
economic, political, and legislative conditions.
164PR. History of America's Racial Minorities
(4) Vargas
Prerequisite: History 17A or 17B or 17C or upper-division standing.
Introduction to recent trends on race and ethnicity in U.S. history focusing
on methodology and historiography. Examination and evaluation of research strategies
and theoretical frameworks of selected historical literature on America's racial
minorities and how these processes interface with other historical processes.
164Q. Nationalism and Politics in Civil War America
(4) MAJEWSKI
Analysis of the development of competing visions of nationalism from the standpoint
of both North and South. Particular attention paid to primary sources produced
by political leaders, ordinary soldiers, women, African Americans and other
slaves.
165. America in the Gilded Age, 1876 to 1900
(4) Furner
Prerequisite: History 17B or upper-division standing.
The responses of American people and institutions to the opportunities and problems
of industrialization and rapid social change in the late nineteenth century.
166A. Recent History of the United States
(4) Kalman, Furner, O'Connor
Prerequisite: History 17B or 17C or upper-division standing.
Political, cultural, social, and economic development of the United States from
1900 to 1929.
166B-C. Recent History of the United States
(4-4) Kalman, Furner, O'Connor
Political, cultural, social, and economic development of the United States from
1930 to the present:
B. 1930-1959
C. 1960-present
166LA. United States Legal History
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
The origins and evolution of American law from the colonial to progressive eras.
Examines the development of the law in social context, considering the role
of institutions, lawmakers, ideas, and the law in practice in tracing the law's
history.
166LB. United States Legal History
(4) Kalman
Prerequisite: upper-division standing
The evolution of American law from the progressive era to the present. Examines
changes in the legal profession, legal education, jurisprudence, private law,
and the Supreme Court.
166P. Proseminar in Twentieth-Century United States History
(4) Kalman, Furner, Garcia, O'Connor
Prerequisites: History 166A or 166B or 166C.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Recommended preparation: Writing 109HU.
A seminar for students who have completed History 166A-B and wish to pursue
research projects on aspects of twentieth-century American history.
167A. Rise of the American Marketplace
(4) Brownlee
American economic development to the Civil War, including the dynamics of European
colonial expansion, the impact of mercantilism and the Revolution, the growth
and redistribution of population, and the sources of early industrialization.
167B. Development of American Industrial Society: 1860 to Present
(4) Brownlee
Economic and social history of the United States associated with the continuing
industrial transformation of the nation, emphasizing a dynamic population and
the changing organizational basis of industrial society, including the development
of the modern corporation and the welfare state.
167C. History of American Labor
(4) Brownlee
An economic and social history of American labor, 1607 to present, treating
patterns of economic and social opportunity, the structure and composition of
the labor force (including the role of ethnic and racial minorities, women,
and children), and the character of organized labor movements.
167CA. History of the American Working Class, 1800-1900
(4) Vargas
Prerequisites: History 17A or 17B or sophomore or junior or senior standing.
A survey of the origins and formation of the American working class from the
colonial period to the late nineteenth century. Topics include workers and community,
the coming of the industrial order, the 1877 labor strike, and workers and the
trade union movement.
167CB. History of the American Working Class, 1900-Present
(4) Vargas
Prerequisites: History 17C or sophomore or junior or senior standing.
A survey of American workers from the turn of the century to the present period.
Topics include workers and American socialism, the 1919 steel strike, the rise
of the CIO, labor and the Cold War, and deindustrialization and workers.
167CP. Proseminar in American Working Class History
(4) Vargas
Prerequisites: History 17A or 17B or 17C or upper-division standing.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Recommended preparation: Writing 109HU.
A research and writing seminar in American working class history with emphasis
on the twentieth-century period. A major research paper will be required on
a seminar related topic.
167D. History of American Business
(4) Brownlee
A survey of the history of business institutions in America, particularly since
the rise of the corporate bureaucracies in the nineteenth century. Places business
in context of development of both the economy and American society at large.
Throughout, attention is paid to government-business relations.
167P. Proseminar in Economic History
(4) Brownlee
Prerequisite: a prior upper-division course in history.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Recommended preparation: Writing 109HU.
A proseminar for students who wish to pursue independent inquiry into some aspect
of the economic history of the United States.
168A-B. History of the Chicanos
(4-4) Garcia, Vargas
Prerequisite: any quarter of History 17A-B-C, or any quarter of Chicano Studies
1A-B-C, or upper-division standing.
Same course as Chicano Studies 168A-B.
The history of the Chicanos, 1821 to the present; traces the social-cultural
lifeline of the Mexicans who have lived north of Mexico.
168E. History of the Chicano Movement
(4) Garcia, Vargas
Prerequisite: any quarter of Chicano Studies 1A-B-C or 10 or 168B, or History
10 or 168B, or upper-division standing.
Same course as Chicano Studies 168E.
An examination of the Chicano movement in the United States from the mid-1960s
to the mid-1970s. Topics will include the student movement, the farmworker movement,
the Plan de Aztlan, the Raza Unida Party, Chicana feminists, the anti-war movement,
and Chicano studies.
168F. Racism in American History
(4) Garcia
Prerequisite: any quarter of History 17A-B-C or any lower-division course
in Asian American studies, Black studies, Chicano studies, or upper-division
standing.
Same course as Chicano Studies 168F.
This course will examine racism as a major ideological force in defining American
society from the colonial era to the 1980s. Major focus will be on the changing
nature of racism as an ideology as well as the relationship of racism to specific
minority groups such as Afro-American, Native-American, Chicano, and Asian-American.
168G. Autobiography in American History
(4) Garcia
Prerequisite: any quarter of History 17A-B-C or upper-division standing.
This course will examine the autobiography as a specific historical genre. Autobiographies
involving a range of Americans and including class, race, ethnic, and gender
issues will be examined as a way of interpreting the history of the United States.
168H. Literature and History in the American Experience
(4) Garcia
Prerequisite: History 17A or 17B or 17C or upper-division standing.
Examination of a variety of literary texts, predominately novels, that provide
key insights into the American historical experience. Texts are taken from particular
historical periods from both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and represent
the various regions of the country.
168L. History of Chicano and Chicana Workers
(4) Vargas
Prerequisite: History 168A or 168B or Chicano Studies 168A or 168B.
Same course as Chicano Studies 194.
The history of Chicano and Chicana workers from the late nineteenth century
to the contemporary period. Focus on worker responses to the changing structures
of economic, social, and political relations determined by the evolution of
American capitalism.
168LP. Proseminar on the History of Twentieth-Century Chicano and Chicana
Workers
(4) Vargas
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Studies in selected aspects of Chicano/a with an emphasis on social, economic,
and political history.
168P. Proseminar in Chicano History
(4) Garcia
Prerequisites: History 168A or 168B, or Chicano Studies 168A or 168B; and
consent of instructor.
Same course as Chicano Studies 168P. May be repeated for credit to a maximum
of 8 units.
Studies in selected aspects of Chicano history with an emphasis on social and
economic history.
168PA. Proseminar in Chicano History, Colonial to 1900
(4) Vargas
Prerequisite: History 168A or 168B, or Chicano Studies 168A or 168B.
Same course as Chicano Studies 168PA.
Study of Chicanos in the context of their everyday lives through historical
texts from the Colonial period to 1900. Exploration of culture, race, gender,
and ethnicity. Provides new ways to investigate the role of Chicanos in American
history.
168PB. Proseminar in Chicano History, 1900 to the Present
(4) Vargas
Prerequisite: History 168A or Chicano Studies 168B.
Same course as Chicano Studies 168PB.
Study of Chicanos in the context of their everyday lives through historical
texts from 1900 to the present. Exploration of culture, race, gender, and ethnicity.
Provides new ways to investigate the role of Chicanos in twentieth-century American
history.
169AR-BR-CR. Afro-American History
(4-4-4) Daniels
Prerequisite: Black Studies 1 or 5, or History 17A or 17B or 17C, or upper-division
standing.
Same course as Black Studies 169AR-BR-CR.
Influence/experience of Africans/African Americans in United States history.
AR. Origins and development of slavery and racism in British Colonies.
BR. Nineteenth-century expansion of slavery, Anti-slavery, Civil War, Reconstruction
and development of segregation.
CR. Twentieth-century New South, urban migration and desegregation.
169M. History of Afro-American Thought
(4) Daniels
Prerequisites: History 169A-B; consent of instructor.
Study of the development of Afro-American thought from the 1860s to the 1960s
as reflected in intellectual and popular media.
169P. Proseminar in Afro-American History
(4) Daniels
Prerequisite: History 169A or 169B.
May be repeated for credit to maximum of 8 units.
Studies in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Afro-American history, with an
emphasis on society, culture, and race relations.
169SA. Major Issues in Asian American History
(4) Chan
Prerequisites: Asian American Studies 1; upper-division standing.
Same course as Global Studies 169.
Historical and contemporary issues related to Asian immigration into the United
States: immigration exclusion, denial of naturalized citizenship and the franchise,
economic and social discrimination, and cultural denigration; efforts by Asian
Americans to both resist and adapt to such injustice.
170A-B. A History of Social Policy in the United States
(4) Bergstrom, O'Connor
Prerequisite: History 7 or 17A or 17B or 17C or upper-division standing.
Not open for credit to students who have completed History 148A-B.
Study of the identification, formation, and consequences of social policy in
the United States over the past 200 years. Policies toward poverty, civil rights,
family and population, health, education, crime, religion, and urban development
are studied, among others.
170P. Proseminar in United States Social Policy History
(4) Bergstrom, O'Connor
Prerequisite: History 17B-C; or History 148A-B; or History 172A-B.
Not open for credit to students who have completed History 148P.
Recommended preparation: Writing 109HU.
A research seminar in selected social policy issues of the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries in the United States.
171A. The United States and the World to 1917
(4) Logevall
Prerequisite: a lower-division history course or upper-division standing.
The theory and practice of American foreign policy from colonial times to 1917.
171B. The United States and the World, 1917 to the Present
(4) Logevall
Prerequisite: a lower-division history course or upper-division standing.
Analysis of twentieth-century developments in foreign affairs. Emphasis on broad
policy, concepts, and ideas.
171P. Proseminar in American Diplomacy and Politics
(4) Logevall
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Recommended preparation: Writing 109HU.
This is a seminar that will focus on training in historical research methods.
It will require an essay on some aspect of American history, most likely in
the areas of diplomacy and politics, chosen jointly by the student and the instructor.
171Q. Readings and Discussions on Cold War History
(4) Logevall
Prerequisite: History 171B.
The theory and practice of American foreign policy toward the Communist bloc
during the era of the Cold War, or approximately 1945 to 1989. The course revolves
around a dialogue between students and instructor based on written analyses
of the literature.
172A-B. Politics and Public Policy in the United States.
(4-4) Bergstrom, Furner, O'Connor
Prerequisites: History 7; or any two quarters of History 17A-B-C; or upper-division
standing.
The interaction of politics and public policy from the Revolution to the present,
focusing upon the key issues of each era in social, economic, cultural, racial,
and other policy areas. A particular concern for the policy-making process,
ideology, and the cultural origins of politics.
172P. Public Policy Issues in the 1960s
(4) Bergstrom, Furner, O'Connor
Prerequisites: History 172A-B.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Recommended preparation: Writing 109HU.
Proseminar in the history of public policy. A research seminar utilizing team
research method to explore major policy questions in the Kennedy-Johnson-Nixon
era.
173A. American Intellectual History
(4) Glickstein
Prerequisites: History 17A.
The evolution of the principal systems of thought concerning God, nature, humanity
and society from the colonial period to about 1900. The course will divide circa
1800.
173B. American Intellectual History
(4) Glickstein
Prerequisites: History 17A or 17B.
The evolution of the principal systems of thought concerning God, nature, humanity
and society from the colonial period to about 1900. The course will divide circa
1800.
173P. Proseminar in American Intellectual History
(4) Glickstein
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
An undergraduate research seminar in topics in American intellectual history.
173Q. Reading Seminar in American Intellectual History
(4) Glickstein
Prerequisite: History 173A-B.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Reading seminar on American intellectual history.
173S. American Popular Cultural History
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: History 17B or 17C or upper-division standing.
Traces the origins and development of popular culture in modern industrial America,
1860 to the present. Emphasis is on the ideas, attitudes, and values reflected
in mass entertainment media such as popular literature, motion pictures, radio,
television, and popular music.
173SP. Proseminar in American Popular Cultural History
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: History 173S.
May be repeated for credit in combination with History 173PS to a maximum of
8 units.
Recommended preparation: Writing 109HU.
An undergraduate research seminar in topics on the history of American popular
culture.
173T. American Environmental History
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: Environmental Studies 1; or a lower division course in history.
Same course as Environmental Studies 173.
Traces the history of American attitudes and behavior toward nature. Focus on
wilderness, the conservation movement, and modern forms of environmentalism.
174A-B-C. Wealth and Poverty in America
(4-4-4) Glickstein, Furner, O'Connor
Prerequisite: History 17A or 17B or 17C