| HISTORY1 | The History of 2022 | How can we understand the events, ideas, and conflicts that have featured in the news cycle during the past year? "The History of 2022" offers historically informed reflections on this year's momentous events, providing an opportunity to understand o... |
| HISTORY101 | The Greeks | 250 years ago, for almost the first time in history, a few societies rejected kings who claimed to know what the gods wanted and began moving toward democracy. Only once before had this happened--in ancient Greece. This course asks how the Greeks did... |
| HISTORY102 | History of the International System since 1914 | After defining the characteristics of the international system at the beginning of the twentieth century, this course reviews the primary developments in its functioning in the century that followed. Topics include the major wars and peace settlement... |
| HISTORY102A | The Romans | How did a tiny village create a huge empire and shape the world, and why did it fail? Roman history, imperialism, politics, social life, economic growth, and religious change. Weekly participation in a discussion section is required; enroll in secti... |
| HISTORY103D | Human Society and Environmental Change | Interdisciplinary approaches to understanding human-environment interactions with a focus on economics, policy, culture, history, and the role of the state. Prerequisite: ECON 1. |
| HISTORY103F | The Changing Face of War: Introduction to Military History | (HISTORY 3F is 3 units; 103F is 5 units.) Introduces students to the rich history of military affairs and, at the same time, examines the ways in which we think of change and continuity in military history. How did war evolve from ancient times, both... |
| HISTORY105C | Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives | (Same as HISTORY 5C. 105C is 5 units, 5C is 3 units.) Interdisciplinary approach to understanding the extent and complexity of the global phenomenon of human trafficking, especially for forced prostitution, labor exploitation, and organ trade, focusi... |
| HISTORY106A | Global Human Geography: Asia and Africa | Global patterns of demography, economic and social development, geopolitics, and cultural differentiation, covering E. Asia, S. Asia, S.E. Asia, Central Asia, N. Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa. Use of maps to depict geographical patterns and processe... |
| HISTORY106B | Global Human Geography: Europe and Americas | Patterns of demography, economic and social development, geopolitics, and cultural differentiation. Use of maps to depict geographical patterns and processes. |
| HISTORY107 | Introduction to Urban Studies | Today, for the first time in history, a majority of people live in cities. By 2050, cities will hold two-thirds of the world's population. This transformation touches everyone, and raises critical questions. What draws people to live in cities? How w... |
| HISTORY107B | The Archaeology of Institutions | Modern life is marked by institutions - schools, hospitals, international conglomerates, even prisons - so how did they develop and become so common? Historical archaeology can help us tell a different history of institutions because it combines docu... |
| HISTORY109P | Paris 1919: Self-Determination and the New(?) World Order | In the wake of the Great War (which we now know as WW1), the notion of self-determination, championed by the US president Woodrow Wilson, became an ideal of governance, spreading like wildfire across continents. It was received enthusiastically and r... |
| HISTORY10B | Renaissance to Revolution: Early Modern Europe | (Same as HISTORY 110B. HISTORY 10B is 3 units; HISTORY 110B is 5 units) Few historical settings offer a more illuminating perspective on our world today than old-regime Europe. Few cast a darker shadow. Science and the enlightened ambition to master... |
| HISTORY10C | The Problem of Modern Europe | (Same as HISTORY 110C. 10C is for 3 units; 110C is for 5 units.) From the late 18th century to the present. How Europeans responded to rapid social changes caused by political upheaval, industrialization, and modernization. How the experience and leg... |
| HISTORY10N | Thinking About War | This course examines classic approaches to war as an intellectual problem, looking at how a matter of such great physical violence and passions can be subjected to understanding and used in philosophy, political theory, and art. Questions to be exami... |
| HISTORY110B | Renaissance to Revolution: Early Modern Europe | (HISTORY 110B is 5 units; HISTORY 10B is 3 units). Few historical settings offer a more illuminating perspective on our world today than old-regime Europe. Few cast a darker shadow. Science and the enlightened ambition to master nature and society, t... |
| HISTORY110C | The Problem of Modern Europe | (Same as HISTORY 10C. 110C is for 5 units; 10C is for 3 units.) From the late 18th century to the present. How Europeans responded to rapid social changes caused by political upheaval, industrialization, and modernization. How the experience and lega... |
| HISTORY112C | What Didn't Make the Bible | Over two billion people alive today consider the Bible to be sacred scripture. But how did the books that made it into the bible get there in the first place? Who decided what was to be part of the bible and what wasn't? How would history look differ... |
| HISTORY113P | Media and Communication Before the Printing Press | Epic traditions, the call to crusade, public curses, music of the troubadours and trouveres: this course examines oral tradition and music--the "viral media" of pre-modern Europe--while tracing the impact of new recording technologies: manuscript pro... |
| HISTORY114 | Origins of History in Greece and Rome | What's the history of `History'? The first ancient historians wrote about commoners and kings, conquest and power - those who had it, those who wanted it, those without it. Their powerful ways of recounting the past still resonate today and can be ha... |
| HISTORY114B | The Crusades: A Global History | (History 114B is 5 units; History 14B is 3 units) Questioning traditional western narratives of the crusades, this course studies Latin and Turkic invaders as rival barbarian formations, and explores the societies of western Afro-Eurasia and the Medi... |
| HISTORY115D | Europe in the Middle Ages, 300-1500 | (HISTORY 15D is 3 units; HISTORY 115D is 5 units.) This course provides an introduction to Medieval Europe from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance. While the framework of the course is chronological, we'll concentrate particularly on the structure o... |
| HISTORY116 | Traders and Crusaders in the Medieval Mediterranean | Trade and crusade were inextricably interconnected in the high Middle Ages. As merchant ships ferried knights and pilgrims across the Mediterranean, rulers borrowed heavily to finance their expeditions, while military expansion opened new economic op... |
| HISTORY116N | Howard Zinn and the Quest for Historical Truth | With more than two million copies in print, Howard Zinn's A People's History is a cultural icon. We will use Zinn's book to probe how we determine what was true in the past. A People's History will be our point of departure, but our journey will visi... |
| HISTORY117 | Ancient Empires: Near East | Why do imperialists conquer people? Why do some people resist while others collaborate? This course tries to answer these questions by looking at some of the world's earliest empires. The main focus is on the expansion of the Assyrian and Persian Emp... |
| HISTORY11N | The Roman Empire: Its Grandeur and Fall | Preference to freshmen. Explore themes on the Roman Empire and its decline from the 1st through the 5th centuries C.E.. What was the political and military glue that held this diverse, multi-ethnic empire together? What were the bases of wealth and h... |
| HISTORY120A | The Russian Empire, 1450-1800 | (Same as HISTORY 20A. 120A is 5 units, 20A is 3 units.) The rise of Russian state as a Eurasian "empire of difference"; strategies of governance of the many ethnic and religious groups with their varied cultures and political economies; particular at... |
| HISTORY126B | Protestant Reformation | The emergence of Protestant Christianity in 16th-century Europe. Analysis of writings by evangelical reformers (Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Sattler, Hubmeier, Müntzer) and study of reform movements (Lutheran, Reformed, Anabaptist, Spiritualist) in their... |
| HISTORY12N | Income and wealth inequality from the Stone Age to the present | Rising inequality is a defining feature of our time. How long has economic inequality existed, and when, how and why has the gap between haves and have-nots widened or narrowed over the course of history? This seminar takes a very long-term view of t... |
| HISTORY12S | Multiculturalism in the Middle Ages: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Spain | Before the year 1492, Spain had been a dynamic and complex region of Muslim and Christian kingdoms populated by Christians, Muslims, and Jews for nearly 800 years. What political, economic, and military exchanges took place among peoples of the three... |
| HISTORY133A | Blood and Roses: The Age of the Tudors | (Same as HISTORY 33A. 133A is for 5 units; 33A is for 3 units.) English society and state from the Wars of the Roses to the death of Elizabeth. Political, social, and cultural upheavals of the Tudor period and the changes wrought by the Reformation.... |
| HISTORY133B | Revolutionary England: The Stuart Age | (Same as HISTORY 33B. HISTORY 133B is 5 units; 33B is 3 units.) From the accession of King James I in 1603 to the death of Queen Anne in 1714: a brutal civil war, the execution of one anointed king, and the deposition of another. Topics include the c... |
| HISTORY134A | The European Witch Hunts | (Same as HISTORY 34A. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 134A.) After the Reformation, in the midst of state-building and scientific discovery, Europeans conducted a series of deadly witch hunts, violating their own laws and proce... |
| HISTORY137D | Germany's Wars and the World, 1848-2010 | (History 37D is 3 units; History 137D is 5 units.)This course examines a series of explosive encounters between Germans, Europe, and the world. Starting with the overlooked revolutions of 1848 and ending with the reunification of West Germany and Eas... |
| HISTORY139 | Modern Britain and the Empire, 1688-2016 | (Same as HISTORY 39. 139 is 5 units; 39 is 3 units.) From American Independence to the latest war in Iraq. Topics include: the rise of the modern British state and economy; imperial expansion and contraction; the formation of class, gender, and natio... |
| HISTORY13P | Media and Communication Before the Printing Press | Epic traditions, the call to crusade, public curses, music of the troubadours and trouveres: this course examines oral tradition and music--the "viral media" of pre-modern Europe--while tracing the impact of new recording technologies: manuscript pro... |
| HISTORY13S | Misfits of the Middle Ages: Persecution and Tolerance in Medieval Europe | Medieval Europe is infamous for its persecutions. In the popular imagination, the Middle Ages were a uniquely unhappy time for Jews, heretics, lepers, witches, and countless other outsiders. But what is the truth about Europe's 'Dark Ages?' What was... |
| HISTORY140 | World History of Science: From Prehistory through the Scientific Revolution | (History 40 is 3 units; History 140 is 5 units.) The earliest developments in science, the prehistoric roots of technology, the scientific revolution, and global voyaging. Theories of human origins and the oldest known tools and symbols. Achievements... |
| HISTORY140A | The Scientific Revolution | (History 140A is 5 units; History 40A is 3 units.) What do people know and how do they know it? What counts as scientific knowledge? In the 16th and 17th centuries, understanding the nature of knowledge engaged the attention of individuals and instit... |
| HISTORY144 | Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment | (HISTORY 44 is offered for 3 units; HISTORY 144 is offered for 5 units.) Explores "Gendered Innovations" or how sex, gender, and intersectional analysis in research spark discovery and innovation. This course focuses on sex and gender, and considers... |
| HISTORY145B | Africa in the 20th Century | (Same as HISTORY 45B. Students taking 5 units, register for 145B.) CREATIVITY. AGENCY. RESILIENCE. This is the African history with which this course will engage. African scholars and knowledge production of Africa that explicitly engages with theor... |
| HISTORY147 | History of South Africa | (Same as HISTORY 47. HISTORY 147 is for 5 units; HISTORY 47 is for 3 units) Introduction, focusing particularly on the modern era. Topics include: precolonial African societies; European colonization; the impact of the mineral revolution; the evol... |
| HISTORY148 | The Egyptians | This course traces the emergence and development of the distinctive cultural world of the ancient Egyptians over nearly 4,000 years. Through archaeological and textual evidence, we will investigate the social structures, religious beliefs, and expre... |
| HISTORY148C | Los Angeles: A Cultural History | This course traces a cultural history of Los Angeles from the early twentieth century to the present. Approaching popular representations of Los Angeles as our primary source, we discuss the ways that diverse groups of Angelenos have represented thei... |
| HISTORY14B | The Crusades: A Global History | (HISTORY 14B is 3 units; HISTORY 114B is 5 units.) Questioning traditional western narratives of the crusades, this course studies Latin and Turkic invaders as rival barbarian formations, and explores the societies of western Afro-Eurasia and the Med... |
| HISTORY14S | Conversion in Ancient and Medieval Judaism, Christianity, and Islam | In the third century, a group of Roman soldiers submerged themselves in baptismal waters in the Syrian desert and became Christians, a radical act. A thousand years later, the Jews of Spain were forced to do the same; in 1391, their mass forced bapti... |
| HISTORY150A | Colonial and Revolutionary America | (HISTORY 50A is 3 units. HISTORY 150A is 5 units) This course surveys early American history from the onset of English colonization of North America in the late sixteenth century through the American Revolution and the creation of the United States i... |
| HISTORY150B | Nineteenth Century America | (Same as HISTORY 50B. 150B is 5 units; 50B is 3 units.) This course is a survey of nineteenth-century American history. Topics include: the legacy of the American Revolution; the invention of political parties; capitalist transformation and urbanizat... |
| HISTORY150C | The United States in the Twentieth Century | (Same as HISTORY 50C. 50C is for 3 units; 150C is for 5 units.) 100 years ago, women and most African-Americans couldn't vote; automobiles were rare and computers didn't exist; and the U.S. was a minor power in a world dominated by European empires.... |
| HISTORY151 | The American West | The American West is characterized by frontier mythology, vast distances, marked aridity, and unique political and economic characteristics. This course integrates several disciplinary perspectives into a comprehensive examination of Western North Am... |
| HISTORY151B | The End of American Slavery, 1776-1865 | How did the institution of American slavery come to an end? The story is more complex than most people know. This course examines the rival forces that fostered slavery's simultaneous contraction in the North and expansion in the South between 1776 a... |
| HISTORY151C | Imagineering the American City | What will American cities look like in the future? Will they be "smart"? Will they be sustainable? Will they be equitable? This course will explore possible answers to these questions by looking back towards the nation's urban past. The city has been... |
| HISTORY151M | Between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, JR.: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Freedom | Malcolm X (El Hajj Malik El Shabazz) and Martin Luther King, Jr. are both icons of the twentieth-century civil rights and black freedom movements. Often characterized as polar opposites - one advocating armed self-defense and the other non-violence a... |
| HISTORY152 | History of American Law | (Formerly Law 318. Now Law 3504.) This course examines the growth and development of American legal institutions with particular attention to crime and punishment, slavery and race relations, the role of law in developing the economy, and the place... |
| HISTORY152K | America as a World Power in the Modern Era | This course will examine the modern history of American foreign relations, from the turn of the twentieth century to the present. Beginning with the fateful decision to go to war with Spain, it will examine the major crises and choices that have defi... |
| HISTORY153 | Creation of the Constitution | The course begins with readings setting forth the intellectual and experiential background of the framing, including common law and natural rights theory, republicanism, economic & political scientific ideas, and colonial and post-Independence experi... |
| HISTORY153C | Reconstruction: Adding the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments | (Same as LAW 7100.) This course will explore the changes to the Constitution made after the Civil War and their enforcement statutes. Materials will primarily be original source texts, supplemented by selected secondary literature. The majority of cl... |
| HISTORY154 | The History of Ideas in America, Part I (to 1900) | (Same as HISTORY 54. 154 is 5 units; 54 is 3 units.) How Americans considered problems such as slavery, imperialism, and sectionalism. Topics include: the political legacies of revolution; biological ideas of race; the Second Great Awakening; science... |
| HISTORY154B | The History of Ideas in America, Part II | This course explores intellectual life and culture in the United States during the twentieth century, examining the work and lives of social critics, essayists, artists, scientists, journalists, novelists, and sundry other thinkers. We will look at... |
| HISTORY154F | Against Slavery: African Americans and Self Emancipation | TBD. |
| HISTORY155 | The White Supremacist Constitution: American Constitutional History | This course addresses U.S. constitutional history from the post-Civil War Reconstruction period through the mid-20th century. Because of the breadth of the subject matter, the view will necessarily be partial. In particular we will take as our focus... |
| HISTORY155F | The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1830 to 1877 | (History 55F is 3 units; History 155F is 5 units.)This course explores the causes, course, and consequences of the American Civil War. The Civil War profoundly impacted American life at national, sectional, and constitutional levels, and radically ch... |
| HISTORY156G | Women and Medicine in US History: Women as Patients, Healers and Doctors | This course explores ideas about women's bodies in sickness and health, as well as women's encounters with lay and professional healers in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present. We begin with healthy women and explore ideas abo... |
| HISTORY158C | History of Higher Education in the U.S. | Major periods of evolution, particularly since the mid-19th century. Premise: insights into contemporary higher education can be obtained through its antecedents, particularly regarding issues of governance, mission, access, curriculum, and the chang... |
| HISTORY15D | Europe in the Middle Ages, 300-1500 | (HISTORY 15D is 3 units; HISTORY 115D is 5 units.) This course provides an introduction to Medieval Europe from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance. While the framework of the course is chronological, we'll concentrate particularly on the structure o... |
| HISTORY16 | Traders and Crusaders in the Medieval Mediterranean | Trade and crusade were inextricably interconnected in the high Middle Ages. As merchant ships ferried knights and pilgrims across the Mediterranean, rulers borrowed heavily to finance their expeditions, while military expansion opened new economic op... |
| HISTORY161 | The Politics of Sex: Gender, Race, and Sex in Modern America | This course explores the ways that individuals and movements for social and economic equality have redefined and contested gender and sexuality in the modern United States. Using a combination of primary and secondary sources, we will explore the int... |
| HISTORY166C | The Cold War: An International History | Though it ended twenty years ago, we still live in a world shaped by the Cold War. Beginning with its origins in the mid-1940s, this course will trace the evolution of the global struggle, until its culmination at the end of the 1980s. Students wil... |
| HISTORY168 | American History in Film Since World War ll | U.S. society, culture, and politics since WW II through feature films. Topics include: McCarthyism and the Cold War; ethnicity and racial identify; changing sex and gender relationships; the civil rights and anti-war movements; and mass media. Films... |
| HISTORY168D | American Prophet: The Inner Life and Global Vision of Martin Luther King, Jr. | Martin Luther King, Jr., was the 20th-century's best-known African-American leader, but the religious roots of his charismatic leadership are far less widely known. The documents assembled and published by Stanford's King Research and Education Inst... |
| HISTORY173 | Mexican Migration to the United States | (History 73 is 3 units; History 173 is 5 units.) This course is an introduction to the history of Mexican migration to the United States. Barraged with anti-immigrant rhetoric and calls for bigger walls and more restrictive laws, few people in the Un... |
| HISTORY174 | Mexico Since 1876: The Road to Ayotzinapa | (History 74 is for 3 units; History 174 is for 5 units.) In September of 2014, 43 students from a Mexican teacher's college in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero were abducted and disappeared via the actions of police and organized crime. This shocking human right... |
| HISTORY177C | Rebelión: Black Resistance in the Caribbean | In 1978, Afro-Columbian artist Joe Arroyo recorded his hit song `Rebelión,' including lines such as "esclavitud perpetua," a reference to the 1452 Dum Diversas Papal Bull, and lines like "No le pegue a la negra," which evince a slave resistance based... |
| HISTORY178 | History of Latin American Revolutions | This course will examine the causes and consequences of Latin American Revolutions of the 20th century. It will focus on Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Chile, and Bolivia. We will bring these revolutions and experiments in social change under an... |
| HISTORY179C | The Ethical Challenges of the Climate Catastrophe | (History 79C is 3 units; History 179C is 5 units.) This course explores the ethical challenges of the climate catastrophe from historical, social, economic, political, cultural and scientific perspectives. These include the discovery of global warmin... |
| HISTORY17N | Intimacy, Secrets and the Past: Biography in History and Fiction | Biography is one of the most popular- and controversial- modes of writing about the past and perhaps its greatest draw is in its promise to revel the otherwise sequestered details of life, its everyday secrets otherwise sequestered from view. This, o... |
| HISTORY181B | Making the Modern Middle East | (Same as 81B. 181B is 5 units; 81B is 3 units.) This course aims to introduce students to major themes in the modern history of the region linking the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean worlds. No prerequisites or prior knowledge of the Middle East is r... |
| HISTORY182G | Making Palestine Visible | Israel-Palestine is one of the most difficult subjects to talk about, in large part because we in the United States do not have much exposure to Palestinian history, culture, and politics in their own terms. This course aims to humanize Palestinians... |
| HISTORY183A | Enlightenment and Genocide: Modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire | (History 183A is 5 units; History 83A is 3 units.) In the early eighteenth century, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, wife of the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, introduced Ottoman smallpox inoculation to western medicine. But over the next two ce... |
| HISTORY185B | Jews in the Contemporary World: Culture, Pop Culture, and Representation | (HISTORY 185B is 5 units; HISTORY 85B is 3 units.) From Barbra Streisand to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, from The Dybbuk to Broad City, and from Moscow to LA, this course applies a multicultural perspective on different experiences of Jewishness in the 20th... |
| HISTORY187 | The Islamic Republics: Politics and Society in Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan | (Same as HISTORY 87. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 187.) Explores the contested politics of these societies in modern times. Topics include controversies surrounding the meaning of revolution, state building, war, geopolitics... |
| HISTORY18S | Pirates, Captives, and Renegades: Encounters in the Early Modern Mediterranean World | In this course, we will study how mobile subjects, such as (barbary) pirates, slaves, captives, renegades, merchants, and dragomans shaped the history of the early modern Mediterranean. By studying a range of primary sources, including official docum... |
| HISTORY190 | Early Chinese Thought | This lecture course examines the emergence of critical thought in early China. After a brief study of the social and political changes that made this emergence possible, it looks at the nature and roles of the thinkers, and finally their ideas about... |
| HISTORY191B | The City in Imperial China | (Same as HISTORY 91B. 191B is for 5 units; 91B is for 3 units.) The evolution of cities in the early imperial, medieval, and early modern periods. Topics include physical structure, social order, cultural forms, economic roles, relations to rural hin... |
| HISTORY193 | The Chinese Empire from the Mongol Invasion to the Boxer Uprising | (Same as HISTORY 93. 193 is 5 units; 93 is 3 units.) A survey of Chinese history from the 11th century to the collapse of the imperial state in 1911. Topics include absolutism, gentry society, popular culture, gender and sexuality, steppe nomads, the... |
| HISTORY194B | Japan in the Age of the Samurai | (Same as HISTORY 94B. 194B is 5 units, 94B is 3 units.) From the Warring States Period to the Meiji Restoration. Topics include the three great unifiers, Tokugawa hegemony, the samurai class, Neoconfucian ideologies, suppression of Christianity, stru... |
| HISTORY194G | Humanities Core: Technology and Media in Modern Japan | This course considers the political, economic, social, cultural, and artistic effects of the introduction of new technologies and media to modern China and Japan. The methodology will integrate techniques gleaned from the disciplines of history and... |
| HISTORY195 | Modern Korean History | (Same as HISTORY 95. 195 is for 5 units; 95 is for 3 units.) This lecture course provides a general introduction to the history of modern Korea. Themes include the characteristics of the Chosôn dynasty, reforms and rebellions in the nineteenth centur... |
| HISTORY195C | Modern Japanese History: From Samurai to Pokemon | (95C is 3 units; 195C is 5 units.) Japan's modern transformation from the late 19th century to the present. Topics include: the Meiji revolution; industrialization and social dislocation; the rise of democracy and empire; total war and US occupation;... |
| HISTORY196C | Resisting Empire: Anti-colonial Nationalism, Popular Politics & Decolonization in Modern South Asia | (HISTORY 96C is 3 units; 196C is 5 units.) How did subjects of British India respond to colonial rule? When and how did anti-colonial nationalism emerge in South Asia? How did leading thinkers of the region conceptualize the nature of colonialism and... |
| HISTORY197 | Southeast Asia: From Antiquity to the Modern Era | The history of S.E. Asia, comprising Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Burma, Cambodia, and Laos, from antiquity to the present. The spread of Indian cultural influences, the rise of indigenous states, and the emerge... |
| HISTORY197C | The Structure of Colonial Power: South Asia since the Eighteenth Century | How did the colonial encounter shape the making of modern South Asia? Was colonial rule a radical rupture from the pre-modern past or did it embody historical continuities? Did colonial rule cause the economic underdevelopment of the region or were r... |
| HISTORY198 | The History of Modern China | (Same as HISTORY 98. 198 is 5 units; 98 is 3 units.) This course charts major historical transformations in modern China, and will be of interest to those concerned with Chinese politics, culture, society, ethnicity, economy, gender, international re... |
| HISTORY1A | Global History: The Ancient World | World history from the origins of humanity to the Black Death. Focuses on the evolution of complex societies, wealth, violence, hierarchy, and large-scale belief systems. |
| HISTORY1B | Global History: The Early Modern World, 1300 to 1800 | (Course is offered for 3 OR 5 units.) Topics include early globalization and cross-cultural exchanges; varying and diverse cultural formations in different parts of the world; the growth and interaction of empires and states; the rise of capitalism a... |
| HISTORY1C | Global History through Graphic Novels: The Modern Age | (Course is offered for 3 OR 5 units.) How did empires and nation-states evolve around the globe during the modern period? How did they shape global experiences of modernity? And how can one write a history of the entire world, so as to cover the nece... |
| HISTORY200A | Doing Legal History | What is law, and how do we write its history? Drawing on case studies from a broad range of periods and places, this course will explore how law is made, interpreted, enforced, experienced, and resisted. It will also explore how historians use both l... |
| HISTORY200B | Doing Environmental History: Water Justice | This course is an introduction to the field of environmental history, or the study of how humans have influenced, and have been influenced by, diverse environments over time. We will employ various sources (written, visual, aural) to learn about diff... |
| HISTORY200BG | Doing History: Biography as History | Although historians often focus on broad social forces, individuals can and do shape these currents in unexpected ways, as the headlines of our own time illustrate. What role do individuals play in historical change? How can we use individual life... |
| HISTORY200C | Doing the History of Race and Ethnicity | How does ethnicity and race operate in different time periods, and across different historical, national, and cultural contexts? This course guides students through an historical and cross-cultural exploration of ethnoracial identity formation, racis... |
| HISTORY200D | Doing the History of Science and Technology | The history of science has often been at the crux of key debates in the larger field of history, including debates over objectivity and bias, relativism and the problem of "present-ism." This course explores key questions, methods and debates in the... |
| HISTORY200E | Doing Economic History | The courses examines how historians and economists, from different intellectual traditions and schools, grapple with major problems of economic history including pre-modern agrarian orders; demographic fluctuations; diverse property regimes; financia... |
| HISTORY200F | Doing Microhistory | The genre of microhistory was expressly invented in the 1970s to recover the voices of people usually neglected in the past, often based on scanty sources. It's an exciting and risky endeavor, as the historian often has to fill in details lacking in... |
| HISTORY200J | Doing Oral History | Students explore exemplary historical works based on oral histories and develop a range of practical skills while completing their own interviews. Topics include oral history and narrative theory, interview techniques, transcript preparation, and dig... |
| HISTORY200K | Doing Literary History: Orwell in the World | This course will bring together the disciplines of history and literary studies by looking closely at the work of one major twentieth-century author: the British writer and political polemicist George Orwell. In 1946, Orwell writes, "What I have most... |
| HISTORY200L | Doing Public History | Examines history outside the classroom; its role in political/cultural debates in U.S. and abroad. Considers functions, practices, and reception of history in public arena, including museums, memorials, naming of buildings, courtrooms, websites, op-... |
| HISTORY200LB | Doing Labor History | How do historians access lives of the laboring poor in the past? What is the archive of the working-class life? Toiling in farms, plantations, workshops, mines, factories, brothels and households, workers seldom leave behind an account of their lives... |
| HISTORY200M | Doing Digital History | This course is designed to introduce students to the theories and methods of digital history. In keeping with the digital humanities- commitment to experimentation, public discourse, and praxis, we will compile a web presence for our seminar that inc... |
| HISTORY200MM | Doing Historical Memory | How do societies remember? What events and experiences become part of our shared patrimony and what stories are lost to time? Who decides? What are the dynamics -- and the politics -- of collective memory? In this course, we will examine these qu... |
| HISTORY200P | Doing Religious History | What is religion, and how do we write its history? This undergraduate colloquium uses case studies from a variety of regions and periods - but with a specific focus on the African continent - to consider how historians have dealt with the challenge o... |
| HISTORY200R | Doing Community History: Asian Americans and the Pandemic | Students utilize a community-engaged oral history methodology to produce short video documentaries focused on Asian Americans in the Covid-19 pandemic. In producing these collaborative digital history projects, students learn to evaluate the ways soc... |
| HISTORY200T | Doing the History of Gender and Sexuality: African Perspectives | What are gender and sexuality, and how do understandings of these concepts shape human experience across time and space? This course explores major topics in the history of gender and sexuality, with a focus on Africa. Course materials examine a rang... |
| HISTORY200U | Doing History: Beyond the Book | This class will teach you how to look for clues in the historical record beyond the usual written texts. The past took place in three dimensions, involved five senses, and included actors that were not human beings. This course takes seriously the ch... |
| HISTORY200Y | Doing Colonial History | This course will explore major themes and debates in the history of modern colonialism in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Using case studies from Asia and Africa, "Doing Colonial History" will address the following issues of global importance: colo... |
| HISTORY201 | From Confederate Monuments to Wikipedia: The Politics of Remembering the Past | Gateway course for Public History/Public Service track. Examines various ways history is used outside of the classroom, and its role in political/cultural debates in the U.S. and abroad. Showcases issues and careers in public history with guest spe... |
| HISTORY201A | The Global Drug Wars | Explores the global story of the struggle over drugs from the nineteenth century to the present. Topics include the history of the opium wars in China, controversies over wine and tobacco in Iran, narco-trafficking and civil war in Lebanon, the Afgha... |
| HISTORY201B | Spatial History: Concepts, Methods, Problems | What can digital mapping and spatial analysis bring to history? How have historians written spatial history in the past? How do scholars in other disciplines deal with space and what can we learn from them? The course provides students with conceptua... |
| HISTORY201C | The U.S., U.N. Peacekeeping, and Humanitarian War | The involvement of U.S. and the UN in major wars and international interventions since the 1991 Gulf War. The UN Charter's provisions on the use of force, the origins and evolution of peacekeeping, the reasons for the breakthrough to peacemaking and... |
| HISTORY201P | History and Policy | Can historical thinking produce more humane forms of governance? This course exposes students to the discipline of history as an instrument of policy critique and formulation. Students will pursue their own research projects with the option of creati... |
| HISTORY202B | Coffee, Sugar, and Chocolate: Commodities and Consumption in World History, 1200-1800 | Many of the basic commodities that we consider staples of everyday life became part of an increasingly interconnected world of trade, goods, and consumption between 1200 and 1800. This seminar offers an introduction to the material culture of the lat... |
| HISTORY202F | Surveillance States and Societies | The course analyzes the evolution, functions, structures and consequences of surveillance in the modern era. Among issues discussed are the rise of the modern state and population politics, information gathering and its uses in domestic and national... |
| HISTORY202G | Peoples, Armies and Governments of the Second World War | Clausewitz conceptualized war as always consisting of a trinity of passion, chance, and reason, mirrored, respectively, in the people, army and government. Following Clausewitz, this course examines the peoples, armies, and governments that shaped Wo... |
| HISTORY202J | Climate Politics: Science and Global Governance | Historical and contemporary perspectives on climate politics. Briefly covers the origins of climate understanding in the 1800s, then turns to the co-evolution of climate science and climate politics from the 20th century to the present, including mul... |
| HISTORY202S | The History of Genocide | This course will explore the history, politics, and character of genocide from the beginning of world history to the present. It will also consider the ways that the international system has developed to prevent and punish genocide. |
| HISTORY203 | Premodern Economic Cultures | Modern economists have made a science of studying the aggregate effects of individual choices. This science is based on the realities of personal freedom and individual choice. Prior to the modern era, however, different realities comprised very diff... |
| HISTORY203C | History of Ignorance | Scholars pay a lot of attention to knowledge--how it arises and impacts society--but much less attention has been given to ignorance, even though its impacts are equally profound. Here we explore the political history of ignorance, through case studi... |
| HISTORY204A | Reimagining History: A Workshop | This class explores, through analysis and practice, the ways in which history can be told and experienced through means other than traditional scholarly narratives. Approaches include literary fiction and non-fiction, digital media, graphic arts, map... |
| HISTORY204D | Advanced Topics in Agnotology | Advanced research into the history of ignorance. Our goal will be to explore how ignorance is created, maintained and destroyed, using case studies from topics such as tobacco denialism, global climate denialism, and other forms of resistance to kno... |
| HISTORY204E | Totalitarianism | This course analyzes the evolution and nature of revolutionary and totalitarian polities through the reading of monographs on the Puritan Reformation, French Revolutionary, turn of the 20th Century, interwar, and Second World War eras. Among topics e... |
| HISTORY204G | War and Society | (History 204G is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 304G is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) How Western societies and cultures have responded to modern warfare. The relationship between its destructive capacity and effects... |
| HISTORY205D | Freedom in Chains: Black Slavery in the Atlantic, 1400s-1800s | This course will focus on the history of slavery in the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch Atlantic world(s), from the late 1400s to the 1800s. Its main focus will be on the experiences of enslaved Africans and their descendants. Between... |
| HISTORY205E | Comparative Historical Development of Latin America and East Asia | (Graduate students must enroll for 5 units.) Students will analyze, in historical perspective, the similarities and differences between the development of Latin America and East Asia from early modern times to the present. Focusing primarily on Brazi... |
| HISTORY205F | Global Futures: History, Statecraft, Systems | Where does the future come from? It comes from the past, of course, but how? What are the key drivers of continuity or change, and how can we trace those drivers going forward, too? What are the roles of contingency, chance, and choice, versus lon... |
| HISTORY205K | The Age of Revolution: America, France, and Haiti | (History 205K is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 305K is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) This course examines the "Age of Revolution," spanning the 18th and 19th centuries. Primarily, this course will focus on the Ameri... |
| HISTORY205L | Prostitution & Sex Trafficking: Regulating Morality and the Status of Women | Examines governmental policies toward prostitution from the late 19th century to the present. Focuses on the underlying attitudes, assumptions, strategies, and consequences of various historical and current legal frameworks regulating prostitution,... |
| HISTORY205M | Silicon Valley in 10 Objects | Have you ever wanted to curate a museum exhibition, or explore alternative ways of studying history, beyond the term paper or article? In this hands-on class, we will research and design a real museum exhibition, to be staged at the Silicon Valley Ar... |
| HISTORY206C | The Modern Battle | The purpose of this seminar is to examine the evolution of modern warfare by closely following four modern battles/campaigns. For this purpose the seminar offers four mock staff rides, facilitating highly engaged, well-researched experience for parti... |
| HISTORY206D | Global Humanities: The Grand Millennium, 800-1800 | How should we live? This course explores ethical pathways in European, Islamic, and East Asian traditions: mysticism and rationality, passion and duty, this and other worldly, ambition and peace of mind. They all seem to be pairs of opposites, but as... |
| HISTORY206E | CAPITALS: How Cities Shape Cultures, States, and People | This course takes students on a trip to major capital cities, at different moments in time: Renaissance Florence, Golden Age Madrid, Colonial Mexico City, Enlightenment and Romantic Paris, Existential and Revolutionary St. Petersburg, Roaring Berlin,... |
| HISTORY207 | Biography and History | Designed along the lines of the PBS series, "In the Actor's Workshop," students will meet weekly with some of the leading literary biographers writing today. Included this spring will be "New Yorker" staff writer Judith Thurman -- whose biography of... |
| HISTORY207B | The Irish and the World | "When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious." The writer Edna O'Brien's portrait of Irish life encapsulates a history shaped by colonialism, famine, forced migration,... |
| HISTORY207C | The Global Early Modern | In what sense can we speak of "globalization" before modernity? What are the characteristics and origins of the economic system we know as "capitalism"? When and why did European economies begin to diverge from those of other Eurasian societies? With... |
| HISTORY207D | Transhistory Colloquium | Colloquium on the history of transgender practices and identities. Readings will include scholarly texts from the emerging historical field of transhistory as well as adjacent fields within gender history. Colloquium will investigate avenues for deep... |
| HISTORY207F | Crafting Digital Stories | Historians tell stories. Using digital methods, we can tell these stories in creative and innovative ways. This digital humanities course is a hands-on experience of working with different methods of digital storytelling. This course is best suited f... |
| HISTORY208C | The Laws of War in Global History | What are the laws of war and how have they changed since they appeared on the global stage in the 1860s? What does it mean to wage a lawful war? Readings cover persistent themes that have afflicted the laws of war since the nineteenth century and con... |
| HISTORY208D | Pre-Modern Warfare | This course examines the evolving nature of warfare and its impact on society across the Eurasian continent up to the Gunpowder Revolution and rise of the nation-state. Beginning with an attempt to define war, it will trace the evolution of military... |
| HISTORY209F | Maps in the Early Modern World | The significance of cartographic enterprise across the early modern world. Political, economic, and epistemological imperatives that drove the proliferation of nautical charts, domain surveys, city plans, atlases, and globes; the types of work such a... |
| HISTORY209S | Research Seminar for Majors | Required of History majors. How to conduct original, historical research and analysis, including methods such as using the libraries and archives at Stanford and elsewhere, and working collaboratively to frame topics, identify sources, and develop an... |
| HISTORY20A | The Russian Empire, 1450-1800 | (Same as HISTORY 120A. 20A is 3 units; 120A is 5 units.) The rise of Russian state as a Eurasian "empire of difference"; strategies of governance of the many ethnic and religious groups with their varied cultures and political economies; particular a... |
| HISTORY20N | Russia in the Early Modern European Imagination | Critically assesses European travelers' travel accounts of Russia in comparison with what was really happening in Russia at the time; explores the phenomenon of travel writing. Write2, Freshman Seminar; requires frequent oral presentations, major res... |
| HISTORY21 | The History of 2021 | How can we understand the events, ideas, and conflicts that have featured in the news cycle during the past year? "The History of 2021" offers historically informed reflections on this year's momentous events, providing an opportunity to understand o... |
| HISTORY210 | The History of Occupation, 1914-2010 | (History 210 is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 310 is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Examines the major cases of occupation in the twentieth century, from the first World War until the present, and issues of similarit... |
| HISTORY210D | Neighbors: Intimate Relationships and Everyday Life in Hitler's Europe | This course explores how different groups of people experienced Nazi rule in Germany and German-occupied Europe. While we will cover the general history of Hitler's rise to power, the prewar years of his rule, and the Second World War, our focus will... |
| HISTORY210F | Making Italy Great Again: Mussolini, Italian Fascism, and Its Impact | 100 years ago in 1922, Benito Mussolini and his followers marched Rome in a show of force that ushered in a period of radical change in Italian government and society, culminating in the establishment of the first fascist totalitarian regime. Who wa... |
| HISTORY210G | The Great War | The First World War provided a prototype and a reference for a new, horrific kind of war. It catalyzed the emergence of modern means of warfare and the social mechanisms necessary to sustain the industrialized war machine. Killing millions, it became... |
| HISTORY210J | Fascism and Authoritarianism | This course introduces students to the history of fascist and authoritarian movements in modern Europe, from their origins through the post-WWII era. Germany and Italy will serve as central case studies, though the course will consider other examples... |
| HISTORY211 | Out of Eden: Deportation, Exile, and Expulsion from Antiquity to the Renaissance | This course examines the long pedigree of modern deportations and mass expulsions, from the forced resettlements of the ancient world to the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492, and from the outlawry of Saga-era Iceland to the culture of civic exile... |
| HISTORY212D | Dante's World: A Medieval and Renaissance Journey | 700 years ago this year Dante Alighieri died. The Italian poet, philosopher, politician, and humanist crafted one of the great epics of world literature, The Divine Comedy. For seven centuries, his journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven has be... |
| HISTORY213F | Medieval Germany, 900-1250 | (Undergraduates may sign up for German 213 or History 213F, graduate students should sign up for German 313 or History 313F. This course may be taken for variable units. Check the individual course numbers for unit spreads.) This course will provide... |
| HISTORY213G | Route-Place-Object: Re-defining "Cultural Landscape" in Medieval Germany | In modern perception, the definition of Germany's various cultural landscapes often follows narratives of regional remoteness and aesthetic coherency. Today's Bundesland (federal state) of Hesse makes a case in point. Ever since the Brothers Grimm co... |
| HISTORY214C | Renaissances: Living, Learning, and Loving around the Mediterranean (800-1500 CE) | This course explores three watershed moments in Mediterranean history: the Carolingian Renaissance, the Twelfth-Century Renaissance, and the Italian Renaissance. The class examines how each renaissance redefined a specific place and how those change... |
| HISTORY215B | Race and Ethnicity in Premodern Europe | How do historians, art historians, and literary historians of premodern Europe shape their research and their teaching around questions of race? How do current debates on race theory shape our perception of the past and deepen historical inquiry? Thi... |
| HISTORY216D | Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Lord of the Rings: The Middle Ages in the Modern World | From its inception the term "Middle Ages" carried negative connotations. Renaissance humanists bewailed the fall of the Roman Empire and its replacement with "barbarian" kingdoms. Enlightenment philosophes abhorred the Middle Ages even more intense... |
| HISTORY217D | Love, Death and the Afterlife in the Medieval West | Romantic love, it is often claimed, is an invention of the High Middle Ages. The vocabulary of sexual desire that is still current in the twenty-first century was authored in the twelfth and thirteenth, by troubadours, court poets, writers like Dante... |
| HISTORY218 | The Holy Dead: Saints and Spiritual Power in Medieval Europe | Examines the cult of saints in medieval religious thought and life. Topics include martyrs, shrines, pilgrimage, healing, relics, and saints' legends. |
| HISTORY218C | Peace and War in Medieval Islam: From the Arab Conquests to the Crusades | This course interrogates the theory and reality of war-making and peacemaking across the first millennium of Islamic history (c.600-c.1600 CE). We will examine major historical events (e.g. the struggle of the early community of Muslims against the p... |
| HISTORY221B | The 'Woman Question' in Modern Russia | (History 221B is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 321B is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Russian radicals believed that the status of women provided the measure of freedom in a society and argued for the extension of ri... |
| HISTORY222 | Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Europe and Russia | Explores criminal law in early modern Europe and Russia, ca 1500-1800, in law and in practice. Engages debates about use of exemplary public executions as tactic of governance, and about gradual decline in "violence" in Europe over this time. Explore... |
| HISTORY222B | The Baltic World | What makes a small, shallow and cold sea surrounded by very poor farming land stand out? Can we talk about a sea surrounded by nine countries as a single unit? This course traces and analyzes the interconnectedness and interdependence that shaped the... |
| HISTORY223E | Cities of Empire: An Urban Journey through Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean | This course explores the cities of the Habsburg, Ottoman and Russian empires in the dynamic and turbulent period of their greatest transformation from the 19th century through the Two World Wars. Through the reading of urban biographies of Venice an... |
| HISTORY223F | Russia's Industrial Revolutions: The Making and Breaking of a Superpower | In the span of a single century, Russia went from unstable empire to revolutionary proving ground, from scene of mass starvation to space pioneer, from the geopolitical sidelines to a seat among superpowers -- all before falling back again. This cou... |
| HISTORY223G | Russia and Ukraine: Empire, Nation, Myth | Explores theories of national myths and nationalism; identifies the founding myths of Russia and Ukraine and the medieval and early modern events they are based on. Extensive primary source readings. Focuses primarily up through eighteenth century, w... |
| HISTORY224A | The Soviet Civilization | (History 224A is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 424A is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Socialist visions and practices of the organization of society and messianic politics; Soviet mass state violence; culture, living... |
| HISTORY224C | Genocide and Humanitarian Intervention | Open to medical students, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Traces the history of genocide in the 20th century and the question of humanitarian intervention to stop it, a topic that has been especially controversial since the end of the... |
| HISTORY224D | The Soviet Civilization, Part 2 | Prerequisite: HISTORY 224A/424A |
| HISTORY225E | From Vladimir to Putin: Key Themes in Russian History | Formative issues in Russian history from Muscovy to the present: autocracy and totalitarianism; tsars, emperors, and party secretaries; multi-ethnicity and nationalism; serfdom, peasantry; rebellions and revolutions, dissent and opposition; law and l... |
| HISTORY225G | Propaganda Century: 20th-Century Preoccupations with Mass Influence | The course explores the idea of propaganda as one of the central obsessions of 20th-century thought and politics. It traces the history of propaganda, from the early 20th century optimistic ideas about mass manipulation and political education to pos... |
| HISTORY226D | The Holocaust: Insights from New Research | Overview of the history of the Holocaust, the genocide of European Jews. Explores its causes, course, consequences, and memory. Addresses the events themselves, as well as the roles of perpetrators and bystanders, dilemmas faced by victims, collab... |
| HISTORY226E | Famine in the Modern World | Open to medical students, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Examines the major famines of modern history, the controversies surrounding them, and the reasons that famine persists in our increasingly globalized world. Focus is on the re... |
| HISTORY227 | East European Women and War in the 20th and 21st Centuries | Thematic chronological approach through conflicts in the region: Balkan Wars, WWI, WWII, and Yugoslav wars. Ways women in E. Europe involved in and affected by wars; comparison with women in W. Europe in the two world wars. Examines women's involveme... |
| HISTORY227B | The Business of Socialism: Economic Life in Cold War Eastern Europe | This colloquium investigates the processes of buying, making, and selling goods and services in Cold War Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. We will familiarize ourselves with a variety of approaches to writing the history of economic life and discu... |
| HISTORY227D | All Quiet on the Eastern Front? East Europe and Russia in the First World War | Until recently history has been comparatively quiet about the experience of World War I in the east. Far from being a peripheral theater of war, however, the experiences of war on the Eastern Front were central to shaping the 20th century. Not only w... |
| HISTORY227K | Marx and Marxism: History and Social Change | This course examines the life and work of Karl Marx, his social and intellectual milieu, and the evolution of Marxism and historical materialism in theory and practice to the present. Basic concepts of Marxism will be discussed along with debates abo... |
| HISTORY228 | Circles of Hell: Poland in World War II | Looks at the experience and representation of Poland's wartime history from the Nazi-Soviet Pact (1939) to the aftermath of Yalta (1945). Examines Nazi and Soviet ideology and practice in Poland, as well as the ways Poles responded, resisted, and sur... |
| HISTORY228C | Politics and Society in Early Soviet Russia: View from the Hoover Library & Archives | The course offers an examination of early Soviet history (1917-1924) based on the archival collections, digital records, and rare books and periodicals in the Hoover Library & Archives, with a focus on the papers of the American Relief Administration... |
| HISTORY230C | Paris: Capital of the Modern World | This course explores how Paris, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, became the political, cultural, and artistic capital of the modern world. It considers how the city has both shaped and been shaped by the tumultuous events of modern his... |
| HISTORY230L | Modern Irish History | No Description Set |
| HISTORY231 | Leonardo's World: Science, Technology, and Art | Leonardo da Vinci is emblematic of creativity and innovation. His art is iconic, his inventions legendary. His understanding of nature, the human body, and machines made him a scientist and engineer as well as an artist. His fascination with drawing... |
| HISTORY231G | European Reformations | How do new approaches to the reforms of religious belief, practice, and community open new avenues for exploring the transformed religious landscape of early modern Europe? This advanced colloquium explores key theological and social aspects of the s... |
| HISTORY232G | Early Modern Cities | Colloquium on the history of early modern European cities, covering urbanization, street life, neighborhoods, fortifications, guilds and confraternities, charity, vagrancy, and begging, public health, city-countryside relationship, urban constitution... |
| HISTORY233 | Reformation to Civil War: England under the Tudors and Stuarts | English political and religious culture from the end of the Wars of the Roses to the Civil War of the 1640s. Themes include the growth of the size and power of the state, Reformation, creation of a Protestant regime, transformation of the political c... |
| HISTORY233C | Two British Revolutions | Current scholarship on Britain,1640-1700, focusing on political and religious history. Topics include: causes and consequences of the English civil war and revolution; rise and fall of revolutionary Puritanism; the Restoration; popular politics in th... |
| HISTORY233F | Political Thought in Early Modern Britain | 1500 to 1700. Theorists include Hobbes, Locke, Harrington, the Levellers, and lesser known writers and schools. Foundational ideas and problems underlying modern British and American political thought and life. |
| HISTORY233G | Global Visions: Faith and Knowledge in the Early Modern World | The early modern world saw Catholicism transform itself into a global faith. Missionaries traveled with expanding Portuguese, Spanish, French empires, and beyond to translate their message of salvation into every culture possible from the Haudenosaun... |
| HISTORY234G | Post-Colonial and Post-Shoah Readings: The Conundrums of Memory Politics | In April of 2020, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, a huge controversy erupted in Germany on the relation between Postcolonial and Holocaust Studies. Previously, in 2012, Judith Butler on the occasion of being awarded the Adorno Prize was assailed for he... |
| HISTORY234P | The Age of Plague: Medicine and Society, 1300-1750 | (Undergraduates, enroll in 234P. Graduates, enroll in 334P) The arrival of plague in Eurasia in 1347-51 affected many late medieval and early modern societies. It transformed their understanding of disease, raised questions about the efficacy of med... |
| HISTORY234R | Risk and Credit Before Modern Finance | In today's world, credit scores are nearly as important as citizenship. Creditworthiness is measured in numbers, but is also bound up with moral qualities. To lack credit is to be on the margins of society, and vice versa. How did we get here? How di... |
| HISTORY235D | When Worlds Collide: The Trial of Galileo | In 1633, the Italian mathematician Galileo was tried and condemned for advocating that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the cosmos. The Catholic Church did not formally admit that Galileo was right until 1992. Examines the many factors that... |
| HISTORY235F | Camus | "The admirable conjunction of a man, of an action, and of a work" for Sartre, "the ideal husband of contemporary letters" for Susan Sontag, reading "Camus's fiction as an element in France's methodically constructed political geography of Algeria" fo... |
| HISTORY235J | The Meaning of Life: Modern European Encounters with Consequential Questions | (History 235J is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 335J is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Across two centuries of social, political, and religious upheaval and transformation, modern Europeans confronted a series of inte... |
| HISTORY235L | Alien Imaginations: Extraterrestrial Speculations in Modern European History | (History 235L is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 335L is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) This course will examine the historical basis and evolution of modern European beliefs concerning the existence and nature of alie... |
| HISTORY236F | French Kiss: The History of Love and the French Novel | The history of the French novel is also the history of love. How did individuals experience love throughout history? How do novels reflect this evolution of love through the ages? And, most significantly, how have French novels shaped our own underst... |
| HISTORY236J | A Tour of Dangerous Ideas: Radical Thinkers in Modern Europe | In this course we will examine ideas radical to their context in modern European thought, paying close attention to what it has meant to explain features of society, government, and politics in terms of power. What is power? What is human nature, and... |
| HISTORY237B | Michelangelo: Gateway to Early Modern Italy | Revered as one of the greatest artists in history, Michelangelo Buonarroti's extraordinarily long and prodigious existence (1475-1564) spanned the Renaissance and the Reformation in Italy. The celebrity artist left behind not only sculptures, paintin... |
| HISTORY237C | Building Modernity: Urban Planning and European Cities in the Twentieth Century | This seminar explores the history of urban planning in twentieth-century Europe. We will discuss visions of ideal cities and attempts at their implementation in the context of democratic and authoritarian systems as well as capitalism and socialism.... |
| HISTORY237D | The French Revolution and the Birth of Modern Politics | (Students who have taken HISTORY 134 should not enroll in this course.) This course will focus on the birth of modern politics in the French Revolution. The goal will be to understand the structural contradictions of the French monarchy in the pre-r... |
| HISTORY237G | Outer Space Exploration in Germany in the Twentieth Century | Since the nineteenth century, Germans, like their counterparts around the world, have considered the meaning and the role of humanity in outer space. As space travel developed from a dream to a reality, and as Germany changed borders and political sy... |
| HISTORY238C | Virtual Italy | Classical Italy attracted thousands of travelers throughout the 1700s. Referring to their journey as the "Grand Tour," travelers pursued intellectual passions, promoted careers, and satisfied wanderlust, all while collecting antiquities to fill museu... |
| HISTORY238E | Narrating the British Empire | In this course, we will read major British literary works of the age of empire to explore the relationship between imperialism and modern literature. We will attend to the way imperialism shaped the evolution of a range of genres, from romantic to go... |
| HISTORY238J | The European Scramble for Africa: Origins and Debates | Why and how did Europeans claim control of 70% of African in the late nineteenth century? Students will engage with historiographical debates ranging from the national (e.g. British) to the topical (e.g. international law). Students will interrogate... |
| HISTORY239C | Humanities Core: Great Books, Big Ideas -- Europe, Modern | What is a good life? How should society be organized? Who belongs? How should honor, love, sin, and similar abstractions govern our actions? What duty do we owe to the past and future? This course examines tcourse examines these questions in the mode... |
| HISTORY239G | The Algerian Wars | From Algiers the White to Algiers the Red, Algiers, the Mecca of the Revolutionaries in the words of Amilcar Cabral, this course offers to study the Algerian Wars since the French conquest of Algeria (1830-) to the Algerian civil war of the 1990s. We... |
| HISTORY239J | Work and Leisure in Nineteenth Century Britain | This course charts the changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution, empire, and social factors in Britons' lives at work and at home in the nineteenth century. Readings will explore trade unionism and Chartism, urban migration, consumer culture, pri... |
| HISTORY239T | What is Time? | At a basic level, history is the study of change over time. But the modern discipline of history, as it was formed during the Enlightenment, radically changed conceptions of time itself: from something at times understood as cyclical or directionless... |
| HISTORY23N | The Soviet Union and the World: View from the Hoover Archives | This course seeks to explore the Soviet Union's influence on the world from 1917 to its end in 1991 from a variety of perspectives. Hoover Institution archival holdings will be the basic sources for the course. |
| HISTORY23S | Sex and Socialism | Among the major promises made by socialism and communism was the liberation of women from an imperialist, capitalist, and patriarchal world. How did these promises hold up in the face of the realities of revolution and state formation? This course ex... |
| HISTORY240 | The History of Evolution | This course examines the history of evolutionary biology from its emergence around the middle of the eighteenth century. We will consider the continual engagement of evolutionary theories of life with a larger, transforming context: philosophical, p... |
| HISTORY240C | Great Minds of the Italian Renaissance and their World | What enabled Leonardo da Vinci to excel in over a dozen fields from painting to engineering and to anticipate flight four hundred years before the first aircraft took off? How did Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel Ceiling? What forces and insight... |
| HISTORY241C | Histories of Attention and Mind Control | This course follows the history of attention from the Enlightenment and the rise of capitalism to Cold War controversies over mind control and recent debates on the attention economy and the ethics of technology. Attention is the cognitive process of... |
| HISTORY241F | The Science and Politics of Apocalypse | For millennia, an apocalypse has been just around the corner. This course examines how expectations surrounding the end of the world - and the role that human beings might play in bringing it about - have transformed over the last two centuries. Afte... |
| HISTORY242G | Spaces and Practices of Natural History | Gentleman scientists once practiced natural history by studying specimens collected from around the world, stored in cabinets of curiosity. From the 17th to 19th centuries, natural history moved out of the cabinet and into the field; these environmen... |
| HISTORY242J | London Low Life in the Nineteenth Century | (History 242J is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 342J is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) London began the nineteenth century as a city of one million, but was home to over six million people by the century's end. How d... |
| HISTORY243C | People, Plants, and Medicine: Colonial Science and Medicine | Explores the global exchange of knowledge, technologies, plants, peoples, disease, and medicines. Considers primarily Africans, Amerindians, and Europeans in the eighteenth-century Atlantic World but also takes examples from other knowledge tradition... |
| HISTORY243D | Emerging Diseases, Past and Present | This course will use our current experience with the COVID-19 pandemic as a lens to study the processes by which infectious diseases emerge. Because of recent developments in the "historicist sciences" (bioarchaeology and palaeogenetics), it is possi... |
| HISTORY243F | Letter Writing in 17th - and 18th - Century France: A Media Revolution | This interdisciplinary course examines the evolution of letter-writing practices in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France through the lens of a media revolution, and highlights the historical roots of contemporary media issues. We will read prim... |
| HISTORY243G | Tobacco and Health in World History: How Big Nic created the template for global science denial | Cigarettes are the world's leading cause of death--but how did we come into this world, where 6 trillion cigarettes are smoked every year? Here we explore the political, cultural, and technological origins of the cigarette and cigarette epidemic, us... |
| HISTORY244F | Innovations in Inclusive Design in Tech | This d-school class prototypes concepts and methods for inclusive design and considers intersecting social factors in designing new technologies. Examples of products (including objects, services, and systems) gone awry will serve as prompts for desi... |
| HISTORY245C | Casablanca - Algiers - Tunis : Cities on the Edge | Casablanca, Algiers and Tunis embody three territories, real and imaginary, which never cease to challenge the preconceptions of travelers setting sight on their shores. In this class, we will explore the myriad ways in which these cities of North Af... |
| HISTORY246F | The African State: An Inconvenient History | This course offers a history of the formation of postcolonial African states and how they came to be the way they are now. It will explore what exactly is meant by a "state", as well as examine the forms of governments that existed within Africa prio... |
| HISTORY246G | Participatory Research in African History | Historical research in Africa is liable to issues of authenticity and relevance to local communities, as well as power disparities between researcher and subject. Can we turn this weakness into a strength by developing theory and practice of partici... |
| HISTORY248 | Religion, Radicalization and Media in Africa since 1945 | What are the paths to religious radicalization, and what role have media- new and old- played in these conversion journeys? We examine how Pentecostal Christians and Reformist Muslims in countries such as South Africa, Nigeria, Sudan, and Ethiopia ha... |
| HISTORY248D | Histories of Race in Science and Medicine at Home and Abroad | This course has as its primary objective, the historical study of the intersection of race, science and medicine in the US and abroad with an emphasis on Africa and its Diasporas in the US. By drawing on literature from history, science and technolog... |
| HISTORY249 | The Mamluks: Slave-Soldiers and Sultans of Medieval Egypt | Known as ghulam or mamluk in Arabic, the slave-soldier was a ubiquitous phenomenon in the world of medieval Islam. Usually pagan steppe nomads, mamluks were purchased in adolescence, converted to Islam, taught Arabic, and trained to lead armies. Some... |
| HISTORY24N | Stalin's Terror: Causes, Crimes, Consequences | This course explores the period of Stalin's rule in the Soviet Union from 1928 until 1953 and focuses on what the Russians called "the repressions." This includes, the war against the kulaks, the Ukrainian famine (Holodomor), the operations against t... |
| HISTORY250A | History of Native Americans in California | This course examines the political histories and cultural themes of Native Americans in California, 1700s1950s. Throughout the semester we will focus on: demographics, diversity of tribal cultures; regional environmental backgrounds; the Spanish Era... |
| HISTORY250B | Comparative History of Racial & Ethnic Groups in California | Comparative focus on the demographic, political, social and economic histories of American Indians & Alaska Natives, African Americans, Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans during late 18th and early 20th century California. Topics: relationship... |
| HISTORY251C | The American Enlightenment | The eighteenth century saw the rise of many exciting new political, religious, and scientific theories about human happiness, perfectibility, and progress that today we call "the Enlightenment." Most people associate the Enlightenment with Europe, bu... |
| HISTORY251J | American Slavery and Its Afterlives | How did the institution of American slavery come to an end? The story is more complex than most people know. This course examines the rival forces that fostered slavery's simultaneous contraction in the North and expansion in the South between 1776 a... |
| HISTORY252 | Originalism and the American Constitution: History and Interpretation | Except for the Bible no text has been the subject of as much modern interpretive scrutiny as the United States Constitution. This course explores both the historical dimensions of its creation as well as the meaning such knowledge should bring to bea... |
| HISTORY252B | Diplomacy on the Ground: Case Studies in the Challenges of Representing Your Country | The tragic death of Ambassador Chris Stevens has recently highlighted the dangers of diplomacy in the modern era. This class will look at how Americans in embassies have historically confronted questions such as authoritarian rule, human rights abuse... |
| HISTORY252C | The Old South: Culture, Society, and Slavery | This course explores the political, social, and cultural history of the antebellum American South, with an emphasis on the history of African-American slavery. Topics include race and race making, slave community and resistance, gender and reproducti... |
| HISTORY252E | From Gold Rush to Google Bus: History of San Francisco | This class will examine the history of San Francisco from Native American and colonial settlement through the present. Focus is on social, environmental, and political history, with the theme of power in the city. Topics include Native Americans, the... |
| HISTORY253C | Histories of Racial Capitalism | This colloquium takes as its starting point the insistence that the movement, settlement, and hierarchical arrangements of indigenous communities and people of African descent is inseparable from regimes of capital accumulation. It builds on the conc... |
| HISTORY253F | Thinking the American Revolution | No period in American history has generated as much creative political thinking as the era of the American Revolution. This course explores the origins and development of that thought from the onset of the dispute between Great Britain and its Americ... |
| HISTORY253P | Before the Model Minority: South Asians in the US | The model minority myth has been used to create a wedge between Asian and Black people in the United States, and masks the histories and lives of itinerant South Asian traders, laborers, and farmers. Beginning in the 1860s, South Asians (mostly male,... |
| HISTORY254 | Popular Culture and American Nature | Despite John Muir, Aldo Leopold, and Rachel Carson, it is arguable that the Disney studios have more to do with molding popular attitudes toward the natural world than politicians, ecologists, and activists. Disney as the central figure in the 20th-c... |
| HISTORY254B | Animism, Gaia, and Alternative Approaches to the Environment | Indigenous knowledges have been traditionally treated as a field of research for anthropologists and as mistaken epistemologies, i.e., un-scientific and irrational folklore. However, within the framework of environmental humanities, current interest... |
| HISTORY254E | The Rise of American Democracy | (History 254E is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 354E is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Where did American democracy come from? Prior to and during the American Revolution, few who lived in what became the United State... |
| HISTORY254F | Anti-Asian Violence in America: A History | This course places the recent wave of hate violence directed against Asian Americans in historical context. The recent violence is the latest in a history that began with the arrival of Asian immigrants in America in the mid-19th century and continu... |
| HISTORY254G | The News Media and American Democracy | The role of the news media in a democracy has been a source of controversy throughout American history. This colloquium will examine how technology, capitalism, law, and politics have reshaped the press over time and how the press, in turn, has impac... |
| HISTORY255B | Contested Masculinities in Modern America | This course examines masculinity in the twentieth-century United States across academic disciplines. Suspending the idea that manhood is biologically fixed or innate, this course presents masculinity as socially constructed and in a state of ongoing... |
| HISTORY255D | Racial Identity in the American Imagination | From Sally Hemings to Barack Obama, this course explores the ways that racial identity has been experienced, represented, and contested throughout American history. Engaging historical, legal, and literary texts and films, this course examines major... |
| HISTORY255F | The Civil War and Reconstruction Era | (Undergraduates, enroll in 255F; Graduates, enroll in 355F.) This course examines the critical period between 1860, when the first states seceded in defense of enslavement, and 1896, when the Supreme Court's Plessy v. Ferguson decision affirmed the c... |
| HISTORY255G | Planning Suburban America | In 2021 Governor Galvin Newsom singed a law ending single-family zoning in the state of California, a remarkable departure for the state of California, which had pioneered automobile-centric suburban development. This course aims to contextualize con... |
| HISTORY255J | Oral History Practicum: United States History and Stanford History Through Oral History | Oral history gathers, preserves, and interprets the spoken memories of participants in past events. The subjects of interviews range from public figures to behind-the-scenes actors to people and communities whose stories and perspectives are often ex... |
| HISTORY256C | Crime and Punishment in American History | This course engages scholarship on the history of crime and punishment in America from the colonial period to the recent past. Readings consist of some theory, a handful of primary sources, and mostly secondary readings on such topics as: knowledge p... |
| HISTORY256E | The American Civil War: The Lived Experience | What was it like to live in the United States during the Civil War? This course uses the lenses of racial/ethnic identity, gender, class, and geography (among others) to explore the breadth of human experience during this singular moment in American... |
| HISTORY256G | Constructing Race and Religion in America | This seminar focuses on the interrelationships between social constructions of race and social interpretations of religion in America. How have assumptions about race shaped religious worldviews? How have religious beliefs shaped racial attitudes? Ho... |
| HISTORY257C | LGBTQ History of the United States | An introductory course that explores LGBT/Queer social, cultural, and political history in the United States. By analyzing primary documents that range from personal accounts (private letters, autobiography, early LGBT magazines, and oral history i... |
| HISTORY257E | History of Conservatism | What is conservatism in America? Where did it come from, and where might it be going? Looking at conservatism as a political, social, and intellectual movement, we will consider these questions by reading primary and secondary sources and archival m... |
| HISTORY258A | Back to the Future: Media, Art, and Politics in the 1980s | (COMM 128 is offered for 5 units, COMM 228 is offered for 4 units. COMM 328 is offered for 3-5 units.)This seminar covers the intersection of politics, media and art in the U.S. from the end of the Vietnam War in 1975 to the fall of the Berlin Wall i... |
| HISTORY258B | History of Education in the United States | How education came to its current forms and functions, from the colonial experience to the present. Focus is on the 19th-century invention of the common school system, 20th-century emergence of progressive education reform, and the developments since... |
| HISTORY258C | Asian American and Settler Colonial Entanglements | Today, the subject of decolonization is at the forefront of a wealth of scholarship as scholars, activists, and institutions grapple with the legacies of colonialism that are far from over. For Asian Americans, there are entanglements with colonialis... |
| HISTORY258E | History of School Reform: Origins, Policies, Outcomes, and Explanations | Strongly recommended for students in the POLS M.A. program; others welcome. Focus is on 20th-century U.S. Intended and unintended patterns in school change; the paradox of reform that schools are often reforming but never seem to change much; rhetori... |
| HISTORY258G | The Origins of American Liberalism | In the 1870s, liberalism in America was associated with freedom of contract, small government, and, quite often, restrictions on suffrage. Today, liberalism means nearly the opposite of that. This class examines how factors like war, industrializatio... |
| HISTORY259C | The Civil Rights Movement in American History and Memory | This course examines the origins, conduct, and complex legacy of the Civil Rights Movement, as well as the continuing struggle over how the movement should be remembered and represented. Topics examined include: the NAACP legal campaign against se... |
| HISTORY259E | American Interventions, 1898-Present | This class seeks to examine the modern American experience with limited wars, beginning with distant and yet pertinent cases, and culminating in the war in Iraq. Although this class will examine war as a consequence of foreign policy, it will not fo... |
| HISTORY260K | Exploring American Religious History | This course will trace how contemporary beliefs and practices connect to historical trends in the American religious landscape. |
| HISTORY260P | American Protest Movements, Past and Present | (History 260P is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 360P is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Societal change comes only when individuals and groups speak out, perseverantly, against prevailing norms. This course examines th... |
| HISTORY261C | Topics in Writing & Rhetoric: Racism, Misogyny, and the Law | The gutting of the Voting Rights Act in 2013 by the Supreme Court of the United States led to the consequent disenfranchisement of many voters of color. For many citizens who desire a truly representative government, SCOTUS's decision predicted the c... |
| HISTORY261E | Introduction to Asian American History | This course provides an introduction to the field of Asian American history. Tracing this history between the arrival of the first wave of Asian immigrants to the US in the mid-nineteenth century and the present, we foreground the voices and personal... |
| HISTORY261G | Presidents and Foreign Policy in Modern History | Nothing better illustrates the evolution of the modern presidency than the arena of foreign policy. This class will examine the changing role and choices of successive presidential administrations over the past century, examining such factors as geo... |
| HISTORY261P | The Pen and the Sword: A Gendered History | As weapons, the pen and the sword have been used to wound, punish, and condemn as well as to protect, liberate, and elevate. Historically entangled with ideals of heroism, nobility, and civility, the pen and the sword have been the privileged instrum... |
| HISTORY262B | The Roots of Gendered Labor: Women and Work in American History | This class will explore the long, tangled history of women's labor in North America. Beginning with gendered labor practices among Native Americans, West Africans, and Europeans in the seventeenth century, this class will proceed thematically and chr... |
| HISTORY262E | Extremism in America, from the Ku Klux Klan to January 6 | (262E is 5 units; 62E is 3 units.)This course is a historical analysis of extremism in the United States from Reconstruction through the present day, looking at such figures and movements and the KKK, the First Red Scare, Father Coughlin and the Chri... |
| HISTORY263C | Nature's Bounty: Natural Resources and U.S. Political Economy | The United States has long been among the wealthiest countries in the world, and its economic life has been closely tied to natural resource extraction. Taking the relation between these two historical facts as a question to be examined rather than a... |
| HISTORY263D | Junipero Serra | Why is Junipero Serra considered a representative figure of California? How have assessments of Serra evolved over the last 200 years? Why does his name appear so often on our campus? In this course we will consider these and other questions in terms... |
| HISTORY264 | History of Prisons and Immigration Detention | This course will explore the history of the growing prison and immigration detention systems in the United States. They will pay particular attention to how they developed and how they affect different populations. |
| HISTORY264D | Modern America in Historical Perspective | No Description Set |
| HISTORY269F | Modern American History: From Civil Rights to Human Rights | (History 269F is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 369F is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) This focuses on American social justice movements during the years since the passage of landmark civil rights legislation during t... |
| HISTORY26S | Building Utopia: Cities, 'Megaprojects', and Socialism in the USSR | 'Utopia' has always been a realm of dreamers and intellectuals. But between 1917 and 1991, the political leaders of the Soviet Union actually built their socialist utopia, brick by brick. They constructed cities in a matter of months, moved whole fac... |
| HISTORY270F | History of the Police in the United States | How did police come to have the power to use violence? Who counts as a police officer and why? Topics include: growth of professional policing, creation of private police forces and vigilantism, slave patrols, political economy of policing, global po... |
| HISTORY271B | Latinx History | This course provides students with an introduction to Latinx history and places it within a broader cultural context. Along these lines it considers the legacies of colonialism, the transnational migration, race and racialization, and the histories... |
| HISTORY271C | Iberian Expansion Through the Looking Glass: One World or Many? | The conquerors, missionaries, and historians who reflected on Iberian overseas expansion during the early modern period often asked themselves a crucial question: was there only one world or many? Were the Americas a 'New World,' unknown to the ancie... |
| HISTORY272 | Colonial Mexico: Images and Power | How did images maintain, construct, or transform political power during the conquest and colonization of Mexico? The creation and destruction of visual materials in this period had a complicated relationship with power. The pictographic codices that... |
| HISTORY273 | Mexican Immigration to the United States | This course is an introduction to the history of Mexican migration to the United States. Barraged with anti-immigrant rhetoric and calls for bigger walls and more restrictive laws, few people in the United States truly understand the historical trend... |
| HISTORY273D | Caudillos and Dictators from Bolívar to Bolsonaro: Modern South America | Latin American history provides key insight into the origins and resurgence of authoritarianism as well as various forms of political and social resistance. Consequently, this course surveys the major social, economic, political, and cultural trends... |
| HISTORY273E | Revolution and Intervention in Central America and the Caribbean | This course examines key instances of revolution, reaction, and intervention in select Central American and Caribbean nations during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Students will explore how various forms of imperialism/neocolonialism intensi... |
| HISTORY274A | The Historical Archaeology of Latin America | How has the study of past material cultures contributed to our comprehension of the Iberian colonial experience in the New World? How has an archaeology of the recent past been presented to the public and made socially relevant in contemporary Latin... |
| HISTORY274C | Mexican American History | This course will explore the history of Mexican migrants and Mexican Americans from 1848 to the present. |
| HISTORY277 | Refugees and Asylum | This course explores the histories of refugees and asylum seekers to the United States and helps students learn how people seek asylum by working on the legal cases of current asylum seekers. |
| HISTORY278B | The Historical Ecology of Latin America | This seminar explores the ways in which access to natural resources has translated into political and economic power in Latin America and the Caribbean, from the colonial period to the present. We will examine how state-building projects (colonialism... |
| HISTORY279B | Potatoes, Coca, and Tamales: Food in Latin American History | The history of Latin America is profoundly marked by the production, circulation, preparation, and consumption of food in its most different forms: as a staple food, drugs, ethnic dishes, drinks, etc. This course examines the cultural, social, econom... |
| HISTORY280B | The Birth of Islam: Authority, Community, and Resistance | This course explores the historical problem of how authority and community (in both the political and religious sense) were defined and challenged in the early Islamic period. Chronological topics covered include: the political, cultural, and religi... |
| HISTORY281D | Introduction to Islamic Law | What is Islamic law? What kinds of sources do we use to access Islamic law, and how has Islamic legal thinking and practice changed historically? This course introduces students to topics in Islamic law while addressing questions of continuity and... |
| HISTORY281E | Oil, Maps, Data: Technology in the Middle East | This course introduces students to a wide range of humanities and social science concepts pertaining to the global study of technology with an emphasis on the Middle East in the 19th, 20th and 21st-centuries. The main body of the course focuses on th... |
| HISTORY282J | Disasters in Middle Eastern History | (History 282J is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 382J is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) This course explores the history of disasters in the Middle East from the early modern period to the mid-20th-century. We will tra... |
| HISTORY282K | Refugees and Migrants in the Middle East and Balkans: 18th Century to Present | This course studies one of the most pressing issues of our day--massive population displacements--from a historical perspective. Our focus will be the Ottoman Empire and its successor states, including Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia and Her... |
| HISTORY283B | The Ottoman Empire and Iran: An Intertwined History of Islamic Eurasia | A history of the Ottoman Empire and Iran (under the Timurid, Safavid, Afsharid and Qajar dynasties) from the 14th to the early 20th century. The course invites students to think the Ottoman and Iranian experiences as a connected history, bridging se... |
| HISTORY283C | The Medieval Middle East: Crusaders, Turks, and Mongols | This course surveys the history of the Middle East from c.950 A.D. to c.1517 A.D., placing particular emphasis on the following questions: What were the social, cultural, and political contexts for conversion to Islam in the Middle Ages? How did the... |
| HISTORY283E | Empire and Resistance in the Modern Middle East | Many scholars and pundits present European empires as the main historical actors shaping the modern Middle East. This course will assess that claim by examining the history of European imperialism in the Middle East, giving equal weight to the power... |
| HISTORY283F | Capital and Crisis in the Middle East and the World | (History 283F is an undergraduate course for 5 units; History 383F is a graduate course for 4-5 units.) How do economies change in times of crisis? How do economic crises intersect with pandemics, violence and environmental disaster to redefine the... |
| HISTORY283J | Global Islam | (Undergraduates, enroll in 283J; Graduates, enroll in 383J.) Explores the history and politics of Islam in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas --- and of the novel connections that have linked Muslim communities across the globe in... |
| HISTORY283K | Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Eastern Mediterranean: From Ottoman to Modern Times | At a time when Europe was riven by sectarian war, the expanding Ottoman Empire came to rule over a religiously diverse population in what we now call the Balkans and Middle East. Focusing on the period 1323-1789, this course asks the following questi... |
| HISTORY284 | The Ottoman Empire: Conquest, Coexistence, and Coffee | (History 284 is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 384 is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) The Ottoman Empire ruled the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe from the 15th to the early 20th centuries. How did the Ott... |
| HISTORY284E | Contemporary Muslim Political Thought | This course aims to provide an intellectual history of contemporary Muslim political thought. It presents post-nineteenth century Muslim contributions to political thought. It is designed as a survey of some major thinkers from the Arab world to Iran... |
| HISTORY284F | Empires, Markets and Networks: Early Modern Islamic World Between Europe and China, 1400-1900 | Focuses on political regimes, transregional connections, economic interactions and sociocultural formations in the early modern Islamic Afro-Eurasia. Topics include complex political-economic systems of the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires and exp... |
| HISTORY284G | The Neo-Imperial Middle East | This course begins with the withdrawal of the European empires from the Middle East in the wake of World War II and the ascendance of the United States (and to a lesser extent the Soviet Union) in the region. We will follow these superpowers' attempt... |
| HISTORY285C | The Immigrant in Modern America | The 2016 presidential election propelled the topic of immigration to the center of public attention. This is not the first time, however, that questions of immigration and what it means to be an American have revealed deep divisions within the U.S. T... |
| HISTORY285E | Counterinsurgency and Torture: Algeria, Vietnam, and Iraq | This course covers the post-WWII history of counterinsurgency, a type of warfare in which a powerful, state-backed military is pitted against guerrilla fighters, or insurgents. In the context of decolonization (the dissolution of European overseas em... |
| HISTORY286D | Yours in Struggle: African Americans and Jews in the 20th Century U.S. | This colloquium explores the history of African Americans and Jews in 20th century US beginning with Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe and the Great Migration to America's urban centers. It considers the geographical and economic tensions that d... |
| HISTORY286E | Labor Migration: Gender, Race, and Capitalism in North Africa and the Middle East | Current media coverage dwells on the plight of migrants passing through North Africa in search of higher-wage jobs in Europe. But labor migration from, to, and through North Africa and the Middle East is nothing new. Pushing beyond widespread views o... |
| HISTORY288C | Jews of the Modern Middle East and North Africa | This course will explore the cultural, social, and political histories of the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) from 1860 to present times. The geographic concentration will range from Morocco to Iran, Iraq to Turkey, and everywhere in... |
| HISTORY28S | Napoleon | This course examines the life and times of Napoleon Bonaparte. For twenty years, Napoleon commanded and captivated Europe, evoking fascination and fear in equal measure and profoundly shaping the course of the modern world. In this course we follow t... |
| HISTORY290 | North Korea in a Historical and Cultural Perspective | North Korea has been dubbed secretive, its leaders unhinged, its people mindless dupes. Such descriptions are partly a result of the control that the DPRK exerts over texts and bodies that come through its borders. Filtered through foreign media, Nor... |
| HISTORY291E | Maps, Borders, and Conflict in East Asia | (Students enroll for 3 OR 5 units.)The nature of borders and border conflicts in N.E. Asia from the 17th to the early 20th century. Focus is on contact zones between China, Russia, Korea, and Japan. The geopolitical imperatives that drove states to... |
| HISTORY291G | Pre-Modern Chinese Warfare | This course examines the evolution of warfare in China, and its impact on the evolving political and social orders, from the earliest states through the Mongol conquest. It will study how changing military technology was inextricably linked to change... |
| HISTORY291K | Korean History and Culture before 1900 | This course serves as an introduction to Korean culture, society, and history before the modern period. It begins with a discussion of early Korea and controversies over Korean origins; the bulk of the course will be devoted to the Chos'n period (139... |
| HISTORY292B | Chinese Legal History | This undergraduate colloquium introduces students to the history of law in imperial China through close reading of primary sources in translation and highlights of Anglophone scholarship. We begin with legal perspectives from the Confucian and Legali... |
| HISTORY292C | Gender in Modern South Asia | Gender is crucial to understanding the political, cultural, and economic trajectories of communities in colonial and postcolonial South Asia. Throughout this course, we will ask a series of questions: How does gender structure conceptions of home, co... |
| HISTORY292D | Japan in Asia, Asia in Japan | (History 292D is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 392D is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) How Japan and Asia mutually shaped each other in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Focus is on Japanese imperialism in Asia and it... |
| HISTORY292F | Culture and Religions in Korean History | This colloquium explores the major themes of Korean history before 1800 and the role of culture and religions in shaping the everyday life of Chosôn-dynasty Koreans. Themes include the aristocracy and military in the Koryô dynasty, Buddhism and Confu... |
| HISTORY293B | Living in Ancient China: A Material Culture History | (Undergraduates, enroll in 293B. Master's students, enroll in 393B.) This course explores the embodied means and meanings of "living" in ancient China, roughly from 1200 BCE to 220 CE, as a way of understanding the sociocultural history of the period... |
| HISTORY293E | Female Divinities in China | This course examines the fundamental role of powerful goddesses in Chinese religion. It covers the entire range of imperial history and down to the present. It will look at, among other questions, what roles goddesses played in the spirit world, how... |
| HISTORY293F | Chinese Politics and Society | (Doctoral students register for 317B.) This seminar examines scholarship on major political developments in the People's Republic of China during its first four decades. The topics to be explored in depth this year include the incorporation of Tibet... |
| HISTORY294E | The Past in Ancient China | Introduction to the most important sources in the early Chinese historiographical tradition (broadly conceived), examining how the past was mobilized across a range of textual genres including poetry, speeches, philosophy, narrative, and rhetoric. Pr... |
| HISTORY294K | Chinese Migrations | This seminar will explore global patterns of Chinese migration, and consider both continuities and change within these movements. We will examine Chinese communities here in California, as well as in Asia, Africa, South America, and the Caribbean. In... |
| HISTORY295E | Trenches, Guerrillas, and Bombs: Modern Warfare in East Asian History | (295E is 5 units; 95E is 3 units.) This course is an introduction to the field of military history. But rather than centering on the typical Western perspectives, it focuses on studying the East Asian modern warfare during the early 20th century. Stu... |
| HISTORY295J | Chinese Women's History | The lives of women in the last 1,000 years of Chinese history. Focus is on theoretical questions fundamental to women's studies. How has the category of woman been shaped by culture and history? How has gender performance interacted with bodily disci... |
| HISTORY296E | Modern South Asia, 1500- Present | This course examines the major political, social, religious, and cultural developments within early modern, colonial, and postcolonial South Asia. Topics include religious reform, the role of women, anticolonialism, and national formation. Students w... |
| HISTORY296F | Science and Society in Modern South Asia | (Undergraduates, enroll in 296F. Graduates, enroll in 396F.) Modern science, technology and medicine are global phenomena, and yet scientific knowledge, as the product of human activity, reflects the social, political, economic and cultural contexts... |
| HISTORY296L | The Worlds of Labor in Modern India | This colloquium will introduce students to the exciting and expanding field of Indian labor history and provide them a comprehensive historiographical foundation in this area of historical research. Seminars will engage with one key monograph in the... |
| HISTORY297G | Rulers, Reformers, Radicals: History of India in Two Centuries | This course traces the cultural, religious, literary, and political lineages of India during the last two centuries. It investigates the conditions and impact of colonialism in the formation of the contemporary subcontinent. In doing so, the course e... |
| HISTORY298 | Major Topics in Modern Chinese History: Cultural and Intellectual History | China has experienced profound changes over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the span of less than two hundred years, the country has witnessed colonial incursions by multiple Western powers, the demise of an imperial system o... |
| HISTORY298C | Race, Gender, & Sexuality in Chinese History | This course examines the diverse ways in which identities--particularly race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality have been understood and experienced in Chinese societies, broadly defined, from the imperial period to the present day. Topics include cha... |
| HISTORY298E | Chinese Pop Culture: A History | This discussion course examines the evolution of popular culture in the Chinese-speaking world and diaspora from the late imperial era to the present. Analyzing myth, literature, medicine, music, art, film, fashion, and internet culture will help stu... |
| HISTORY298F | Social Movements and State Power in China, 1644-Present | This discussion course investigates the ideological, political and environmental conditions that have shaped social movements, uprisings and governance in China from the late imperial period to the present. It considers differences between the exper... |
| HISTORY299A | Senior Research I | No Description Set |
| HISTORY299B | Senior Research II | No Description Set |
| HISTORY299C | Senior Research III | No Description Set |
| HISTORY299CAP2 | Crafting Digital Stories | Historians tell stories. Using digital methods, we can tell these stories in creative and innovative ways. This digital humanities course is a hands-on experience of working with different methods of digital storytelling. This course is best suited f... |
| HISTORY299F | Curricular Practical Training | Following internship work, students complete a research report outlining work activity, problems investigated, key results and follow-up projects. Meets the requirements for curricular practical training for students on F-1 visas. Student is responsi... |
| HISTORY299H | Junior Honors Colloquium | Required of junior History majors planning to write a History honors thesis during senior year. Meets four times during the quarter. |
| HISTORY299M | Undergraduate Directed Research: Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute | May be repeated for credit. |
| HISTORY299P | Mastering Uncertainty: The Power of Archival Thinking | When confronted with chaos and uncertainty, do you know how to stay calm, ask the right questions, and find the answers? Archival researchers do. Do you realize that less than 1 percent of primary sources have been digitized, and that 99 percent stil... |
| HISTORY299S | Undergraduate Directed Research and Writing | May be repeated for credit. |
| HISTORY29SC | River and Region: The Columbia River and the Shaping of the Pacific Northwest | This seminar will explore the crucial role of the Columbia River in the past, present, and future of the Pacific Northwest. Topics will include the lives and legacies of the indigenous peoples that Lewis and Clark encountered more than two centuries... |
| HISTORY301A | The Global Drug Wars | Explores the global story of the struggle over drugs from the nineteenth century to the present. Topics include the history of the opium wars in China, controversies over wine and tobacco in Iran, narco-trafficking and civil war in Lebanon, the Afgha... |
| HISTORY301P | History and Policy | Can historical thinking produce more humane forms of governance? This course exposes students to the discipline of history as an instrument of policy critique and formulation. Students will pursue their own research projects with the option of creati... |
| HISTORY302 | Technopolitics: Materiality, Power, Theory | This graduate readings seminar provides a lively introduction to some of the major themes and issues in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). How do technologies and material assemblages perform power? How are their designs and uses shap... |
| HISTORY302B | Coffee, Sugar, and Chocolate: Commodities and Consumption in World History, 1200-1800 | Many of the basic commodities that we consider staples of everyday life became part of an increasingly interconnected world of trade, goods, and consumption between 1200 and 1800. This seminar offers an introduction to the material culture of the lat... |
| HISTORY302D | Power in the Anthropocene: Pasts, Presents, Futures | The Anthropocene designates the present geological epoch, in which humans have irreversibly changed planet Earth, with impacts discernible in the atmosphere, biosphere, and more. The term has also become a "charismatic mega-category" in the humanitie... |
| HISTORY302F | Surveillance States and Societies | The course analyzes the evolution, functions, structures and consequences of surveillance in the modern era. Among issues discussed are the rise of the modern state and population politics, information gathering and its uses in domestic and national... |
| HISTORY302G | Peoples, Armies and Governments of the Second World War | Clausewitz conceptualized war as always consisting of a trinity of passion, chance, and reason, mirrored, respectively, in the people, army and government. Following Clausewitz, this course examines the peoples, armies, and governments that shaped Wo... |
| HISTORY303 | Premodern Economic Cultures | Modern economists have made a science of studying the aggregate effects of individual choices. This science is based on the realities of personal freedom and individual choice. Prior to the modern era, however, different realities comprised very diff... |
| HISTORY303C | History of Ignorance | Scholars pay a lot of attention to knowledge--how it arises and impacts society--but much less attention has been given to ignorance, even though its impacts are equally profound. Here we explore the political history of ignorance, through case studi... |
| HISTORY303E | Infrastructure & Power in the Global South | In the last decade, the field of infrastructure studies has entered into conversation with area studies, post/colonial studies, and other scholarship on the "Global South." These intersections have produced dramatic new understandings of what "infras... |
| HISTORY303F | Words and Things in the History of Classical Scholarship | How have scholars used ancient texts and objects since the revival of the classical tradition? How did antiquarians study and depict objects and relate them to texts and reconstructions of the past? What changed and what stayed the same as humanist s... |
| HISTORY304 | Approaches to History | For first-year History and Classics Ph.D. students. This course explores ideas and debates that have animated historical discourse and shaped historiographical practice over the past half-century or so. The works we will be discussing raise fundamen... |
| HISTORY304A | Reimagining History: A Workshop | This class explores, through analysis and practice, the ways in which history can be told and experienced through means other than traditional scholarly narratives. Approaches include literary fiction and non-fiction, digital media, graphic arts, map... |
| HISTORY304D | Advanced Topics in Agnotology | Advanced research into the history of ignorance. Our goal will be to explore how ignorance is created, maintained and destroyed, using case studies from topics such as tobacco denialism, global climate denialism, and other forms of resistance to kno... |
| HISTORY304G | War and Society | (History 204G is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 304G is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) How Western societies and cultures have responded to modern warfare. The relationship between its destructive capacity and effects... |
| HISTORY304M | Historiography | For History and Classics MA and coterm students. This course explores how historians have explored the past, and the strengths and limits of the methods they have employed. Beginning with a survey of non-western historiography, we then investigate th... |
| HISTORY305 | Graduate Pedagogy Workshop | Required of first-year History Ph.D. students. Perspectives on pedagogy for historians: course design, lecturing, leading discussion, evaluation of student learning, use of technology in teaching lectures and seminars. Addressing today's classroom:... |
| HISTORY305D | Global Urban History | This graduate readings course considers the work of historians working at the crossroads of urban history and global history, with particular attention to the role of the urban setting as both product and producer of social and spatial relations of p... |
| HISTORY305E | Comparative Historical Development of Latin America and East Asia | (Graduate students must enroll for 5 units.) Students will analyze, in historical perspective, the similarities and differences between the development of Latin America and East Asia from early modern times to the present. Focusing primarily on Brazi... |
| HISTORY305K | The Age of Revolution: America, France, and Haiti | (History 205K is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 305K is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) This course examines the "Age of Revolution," spanning the 18th and 19th centuries. Primarily, this course will focus on the Ameri... |
| HISTORY305L | Prostitution & Sex Trafficking: Regulating Morality and the Status of Women | Examines governmental policies toward prostitution from the late 19th century to the present. Focuses on the underlying attitudes, assumptions, strategies, and consequences of various historical and current legal frameworks regulating prostitution,... |
| HISTORY305M | Silicon Valley in 10 Objects | Have you ever wanted to curate a museum exhibition, or explore alternative ways of studying history, beyond the term paper or article? In this hands-on class, we will research and design a real museum exhibition, to be staged at the Silicon Valley Ar... |
| HISTORY306 | Beyond Borders: Approaches to Transnational History | This core colloquium for the Transnational, International, and Global (TIG) field will introduce students to the major historiographical trends, methodological challenges, and theoretical approaches to studying and writing transnational histories. |
| HISTORY306D | World History: Graduate Colloquium | How do historians engage the global scale in the classroom as well as in research? The world history canon including Toynbee, McNeill, Braudel, Wolf, and Wallerstein; contrasting approaches, recent research, and resources for teaching. Recommended: c... |
| HISTORY306K | World History Pedagogy Workshop | Students draft a syllabus and create a curriculum module for use in a world history lecture course. Corequisite: HISTORY 306D, recommended. |
| HISTORY307A | Legal History Workshop | (Same as LAW 3516.) The Legal History Workshop is designed as a forum in which faculty and students from the Law School, the History Department, and elsewhere in the university can discuss some of the best work now being done in the field of legal h... |
| HISTORY307B | The Irish and the World | "When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious." The writer Edna O'Brien's portrait of Irish life encapsulates a history shaped by colonialism, famine, forced migration,... |
| HISTORY307C | The Global Early Modern | In what sense can we speak of "globalization" before modernity? What are the characteristics and origins of the economic system we know as "capitalism"? When and why did European economies begin to diverge from those of other Eurasian societies? With... |
| HISTORY307D | Transhistory Colloquium | Colloquium on the history of transgender practices and identities. Readings will include scholarly texts from the emerging historical field of transhistory as well as adjacent fields within gender history. Colloquium will investigate avenues for deep... |
| HISTORY307E | Totalitarianism | This course analyzes the evolution and nature of revolutionary and totalitarian polities through the reading of monographs on the Puritan Reformation, French Revolutionary, turn of the 20th Century, interwar, and Second World War eras. Among topics e... |
| HISTORY308 | Biography and History | Designed along the lines of the PBS series, "In the Actor's Workshop," students will meet weekly with some of the leading literary biographers writing today. Included this spring will be "New Yorker" staff writer Judith Thurman -- whose biography of... |
| HISTORY308D | Pre-Modern Warfare | This course examines the evolving nature of warfare and its impact on society across the Eurasian continent up to the Gunpowder Revolution and rise of the nation-state. Beginning with an attempt to define war, it will trace the evolution of military... |
| HISTORY309F | Maps in the Early Modern World | The significance of cartographic enterprise across the early modern world. Political, economic, and epistemological imperatives that drove the proliferation of nautical charts, domain surveys, city plans, atlases, and globes; the types of work such a... |
| HISTORY30SC | SoCo Humanities Research Intensive | Join two Stanford professors for a week of immersive, expert introduction to humanities research. This intensive, one-week course introduces rising sophomores to the excitement and wonder of humanities research, along the way preparing you for indepe... |
| HISTORY310 | The History of Occupation, 1914-2010 | (History 210 is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 310 is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Examines the major cases of occupation in the twentieth century, from the first World War until the present, and issues of similarit... |
| HISTORY310J | Fascism and Authoritarianism | This course introduces students to the history of fascist and authoritarian movements in modern Europe, from their origins through the post-WWII era. Germany and Italy will serve as central case studies, though the course will consider other examples... |
| HISTORY311 | Out of Eden: Deportation, Exile, and Expulsion from Antiquity to the Renaissance | This course examines the long pedigree of modern deportations and mass expulsions, from the forced resettlements of the ancient world to the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492, and from the outlawry of Saga-era Iceland to the culture of civic exile... |
| HISTORY313 | Core Colloquium: Graduate Readings in Medieval History | This course serves as a graduate-level introduction to major themes, problems, methods, and historiographical traditions in medieval European history. |
| HISTORY313F | Medieval Germany, 900-1250 | (Undergraduates may sign up for German 213 or History 213F, graduate students should sign up for German 313 or History 313F. This course may be taken for variable units. Check the individual course numbers for unit spreads.) This course will provide... |
| HISTORY315B | Race and Ethnicity in Premodern Europe | How do historians, art historians, and literary historians of premodern Europe shape their research and their teaching around questions of race? How do current debates on race theory shape our perception of the past and deepen historical inquiry? Thi... |
| HISTORY317 | Introduction to the Sources of Medieval History | This seminar is intended as a hands-on introduction to several major genres of source materials for the history of Western Europe from ca. 700-ca. 1400. Each week's meeting will consist of a mix of faculty-led bibliographical overviews, student prese... |
| HISTORY317D | Love, Death and the Afterlife in the Medieval West | Romantic love, it is often claimed, is an invention of the High Middle Ages. The vocabulary of sexual desire that is still current in the twenty-first century was authored in the twelfth and thirteenth, by troubadours, court poets, writers like Dante... |
| HISTORY318 | The Holy Dead: Saints and Spiritual Power in Medieval Europe | Examines the cult of saints in medieval religious thought and life. Topics include martyrs, shrines, pilgrimage, healing, relics, and saints' legends. |
| HISTORY318C | Peace and War in Medieval Islam: From the Arab Conquests to the Crusades | This course interrogates the theory and reality of war-making and peacemaking across the first millennium of Islamic history (c.600-c.1600 CE). We will examine major historical events (e.g. the struggle of the early community of Muslims against the p... |
| HISTORY31Q | Resistance and Collaboration in Hitler's Europe | What is resistance and what did it entail in Nazi-occupied Europe? What prompted some to resist, while others accommodated or actively collaborated with the occupiers? How have postwar societies remembered their resistance movements and collaboration... |
| HISTORY321B | The 'Woman Question' in Modern Russia | (History 221B is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 321B is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Russian radicals believed that the status of women provided the measure of freedom in a society and argued for the extension of ri... |
| HISTORY322A | Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Europe and Russia | Explores criminal law in early modern Europe and Russia, ca 1500-1800, in law and in practice. Engages debates about use of exemplary public executions as tactic of governance, and about gradual decline in "violence" in Europe over this time. Explore... |
| HISTORY322E | Topics in Early Modern Russia and Ukraine | Explores and contrasts Ukraine and Russia ca 1450-1800, when most of Ukraine had not yet been conquered by Russia: governmental structures, religion and culture, ideology, social organization, agrarian economy. |
| HISTORY323E | Cities of Empire: An Urban Journey through Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean | This course explores the cities of the Habsburg, Ottoman and Russian empires in the dynamic and turbulent period of their greatest transformation from the 19th century through the Two World Wars. Through the reading of urban biographies of Venice an... |
| HISTORY324C | Genocide and Humanitarian Intervention | Open to medical students, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Traces the history of genocide in the 20th century and the question of humanitarian intervention to stop it, a topic that has been especially controversial since the end of the... |
| HISTORY325E | From Vladimir to Putin: Key Themes in Russian History | Formative issues in Russian history from Muscovy to the present: autocracy and totalitarianism; tsars, emperors, and party secretaries; multi-ethnicity and nationalism; serfdom, peasantry; rebellions and revolutions, dissent and opposition; law and l... |
| HISTORY326A | Modern Europe: Society and Politics | The goal of this course is to introduce graduate students to major works of history and literature in the field of nineteenth and early-twentieth century history. A colloquia will be given in tandem with a research seminar. |
| HISTORY326D | The Holocaust: Insights from New Research | Overview of the history of the Holocaust, the genocide of European Jews. Explores its causes, course, consequences, and memory. Addresses the events themselves, as well as the roles of perpetrators and bystanders, dilemmas faced by victims, collab... |
| HISTORY326E | Famine in the Modern World | Open to medical students, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Examines the major famines of modern history, the controversies surrounding them, and the reasons that famine persists in our increasingly globalized world. Focus is on the re... |
| HISTORY327 | East European Women and War in the 20th and 21st Centuries | Thematic chronological approach through conflicts in the region: Balkan Wars, WWI, WWII, and Yugoslav wars. Ways women in E. Europe involved in and affected by wars; comparison with women in W. Europe in the two world wars. Examines women's involveme... |
| HISTORY327B | The Business of Socialism: Economic Life in Cold War Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union | (Graduate students, enroll in 327B. Undergraduate students, enroll in 227B.) This colloquium investigates the processes of buying, making, and selling goods and services in Cold War Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. We will familiarize ourselves w... |
| HISTORY327D | All Quiet on the Eastern Front? East Europe and Russia in the First World War | Until recently history has been comparatively quiet about the experience of World War I in the east. Far from being a peripheral theater of war, however, the experiences of war on the Eastern Front were central to shaping the 20th century. Not only w... |
| HISTORY327K | Marx and Marxism: History and Social Change | This course examines the life and work of Karl Marx, his social and intellectual milieu, and the evolution of Marxism and historical materialism in theory and practice to the present. Basic concepts of Marxism will be discussed along with debates abo... |
| HISTORY328 | Circles of Hell: Poland in World War II | Looks at the experience and representation of Poland's wartime history from the Nazi-Soviet Pact (1939) to the aftermath of Yalta (1945). Examines Nazi and Soviet ideology and practice in Poland, as well as the ways Poles responded, resisted, and sur... |
| HISTORY328C | Politics and Society in Early Soviet Russia: View from the Hoover Library & Archives | The course offers an examination of early Soviet history (1917-1924) based on the archival collections, digital records, and rare books and periodicals in the Hoover Library & Archives, with a focus on the papers of the American Relief Administration... |
| HISTORY32S | Utopian Dreams, Dystopian Nightmares: Visions of the Ideal Society in Early Modern Britain | Visions of the ideal society are a mainstay in the European imagination, from Plato's Republic to Charles Fourier's phalanstère. Yet utopianism has always been maligned as idealistic, impracticable, or naïve, while its proponents accused variously of... |
| HISTORY330A | Early Modern Colloquium | Historiographical survey from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Topics include Renaissance, Reformation, European expansion, state and nation building, printing, military, and scientific revolutions, origins of Enlightenment. Designed to prepare... |
| HISTORY331 | Leonardo's World: Science, Technology, and Art | Leonardo da Vinci is emblematic of creativity and innovation. His art is iconic, his inventions legendary. His understanding of nature, the human body, and machines made him a scientist and engineer as well as an artist. His fascination with drawing... |
| HISTORY331B | Core Colloquium on Modern Europe: The 19th Century | The major historical events and historiographical debates of the long 19th century from the French Revolution to WW I. |
| HISTORY331C | Modern European Core: The Twentieth Century | The historiography of 20th-century Europe. Topics include WW I, the Russian Revolution, National Socialism, and the EU. |
| HISTORY331G | European Reformations | How do new approaches to the reforms of religious belief, practice, and community open new avenues for exploring the transformed religious landscape of early modern Europe? This advanced colloquium explores key theological and social aspects of the s... |
| HISTORY332B | Heretics, Prostitutes and Merchants: The Venetian Empire | Between 1200-1600, Venice created a powerful empire at the boundary between East and West that controlled much of the Mediterranean, with a merchant society that allowed social groups, religions, and ethnicities to coexist. Topics include the feature... |
| HISTORY332G | Early Modern Cities | Colloquium on the history of early modern European cities, covering urbanization, street life, neighborhoods, fortifications, guilds and confraternities, charity, vagrancy, and begging, public health, city-countryside relationship, urban constitution... |
| HISTORY333 | Reformation to Civil War: England under the Tudors and Stuarts | English political and religious culture from the end of the Wars of the Roses to the Civil War of the 1640s. Themes include the growth of the size and power of the state, Reformation, creation of a Protestant regime, transformation of the political c... |
| HISTORY333C | Two British Revolutions | Current scholarship on Britain,1640-1700, focusing on political and religious history. Topics include: causes and consequences of the English civil war and revolution; rise and fall of revolutionary Puritanism; the Restoration; popular politics in th... |
| HISTORY333F | Political Thought in Early Modern Britain | 1500 to 1700. Theorists include Hobbes, Locke, Harrington, the Levellers, and lesser known writers and schools. Foundational ideas and problems underlying modern British and American political thought and life. |
| HISTORY334P | The Age of Plague: Medicine and Society, 1300-1750 | (Graduates, enroll in 334P. Undergraduates, enroll in 234P.) The arrival of plague in Eurasia in 1347-51 affected many late medieval and early modern societies. It transformed their understanding of disease, raised questions about the efficacy of me... |
| HISTORY334R | Risk and Credit Before Modern Finance | In today's world, credit scores are nearly as important as citizenship. Creditworthiness is measured in numbers, but is also bound up with moral qualities. To lack credit is to be on the margins of society, and vice versa. How did we get here? How di... |
| HISTORY335D | When Worlds Collide: The Trial of Galileo | In 1633, the Italian mathematician Galileo was tried and condemned for advocating that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the cosmos. The Catholic Church did not formally admit that Galileo was right until 1992. Examines the many factors that... |
| HISTORY335J | The Meaning of Life: Modern European Encounters with Consequential Questions | (History 235J is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 335J is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Across two centuries of social, political, and religious upheaval and transformation, modern Europeans confronted a series of inte... |
| HISTORY335L | Alien Imaginations: Extraterrestrial Speculations in Modern European History | (History 235L is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 335L is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) This course will examine the historical basis and evolution of modern European beliefs concerning the existence and nature of alie... |
| HISTORY336J | A Tour of Dangerous Ideas: Radical Thinkers in Modern Europe | In this course we will examine ideas radical to their context in modern European thought, paying close attention to what it has meant to explain features of society, government, and politics in terms of power. What is power? What is human nature, and... |
| HISTORY337B | Michelangelo: Gateway to Early Modern Italy | Revered as one of the greatest artists in history, Michelangelo Buonarroti's extraordinarily long and prodigious existence (1475-1564) spanned the Renaissance and the Reformation in Italy. The celebrity artist left behind not only sculptures, paintin... |
| HISTORY337C | Street History: Learning the Past in School and Out | Interdisciplinary. Since Herodotus, history and memory have competed to shape minds: history cultivates doubt and demands interpretation; memory seeks certainty and detests that which thwarts its aims. History and memory collide in modern society, of... |
| HISTORY337D | The French Revolution and the Birth of Modern Politics | (Students who have taken HISTORY 134 should not enroll in this course.) This course will focus on the birth of modern politics in the French Revolution. The goal will be to understand the structural contradictions of the French monarchy in the pre-r... |
| HISTORY338A | Graduate Colloquium in Modern British History, Part I | Influential approaches to problems in British, European, and imperial history. The 19th-century British experience and its relationship to Europe and empire. National identity, the industrial revolution, class formation, gender, liberalism, and state... |
| HISTORY338B | MODERN BRITISH HISTORY PART II | Themes include empire and racism, the crisis of liberalism, the rise of the welfare state, national identity, the experience of total war, the politics of decline, and modernity and British culture. |
| HISTORY338J | The European Scramble for Africa: Origins and Debates | Why and how did Europeans claim control of 70% of African in the late nineteenth century? Students will engage with historiographical debates ranging from the national (e.g. British) to the topical (e.g. international law). Students will interrogate... |
| HISTORY339J | Work and Leisure in Nineteenth Century Britain | This course charts the changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution, empire, and social factors in Britons' lives at work and at home in the nineteenth century. Readings will explore trade unionism and Chartism, urban migration, consumer culture, pri... |
| HISTORY339T | What is Time? | At a basic level, history is the study of change over time. But the modern discipline of history, as it was formed during the Enlightenment, radically changed conceptions of time itself: from something at times understood as cyclical or directionless... |
| HISTORY33A | Blood and Roses: The Age of the Tudors | (Same as HISTORY 133A. 33A is for 3 units; 133A is for 5 units.) English society and state from the Wars of the Roses to the death of Elizabeth. Political, social, and cultural upheavals of the Tudor period and the changes wrought by the Reformation.... |
| HISTORY33B | Revolutionary England: The Stuart Age | (Same as HISTORY 133B. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 133B.) From the accession of King James I in 1603 to the death of Queen Anne in 1714: a brutal civil war, the execution of one anointed king, and the deposition of another... |
| HISTORY340 | The History of Evolution | This course examines the history of evolutionary biology from its emergence around the middle of the eighteenth century. We will consider the continual engagement of evolutionary theories of life with a larger, transforming context: philosophical, p... |
| HISTORY341C | Histories of Attention and Mind Control | This course follows the history of attention from the Enlightenment and the rise of capitalism to Cold War controversies over mind control and recent debates on the attention economy and the ethics of technology. Attention is the cognitive process of... |
| HISTORY342G | Spaces and Practices of Natural History | Gentleman scientists once practiced natural history by studying specimens collected from around the world, stored in cabinets of curiosity. From the 17th to 19th centuries, natural history moved out of the cabinet and into the field; these environmen... |
| HISTORY342J | London Low Life in the Nineteenth Century | (History 242J is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 342J is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) London began the nineteenth century as a city of one million, but was home to over six million people by the century's end. How d... |
| HISTORY343C | People, Plants, and Medicine: Colonial Science and Medicine | Explores the global exchange of knowledge, technologies, plants, peoples, disease, and medicines. Considers primarily Africans, Amerindians, and Europeans in the eighteenth-century Atlantic World but also takes examples from other knowledge tradition... |
| HISTORY343D | Emerging Diseases, Past and Present | This course will use our current experience with the COVID-19 pandemic as a lens to study the processes by which infectious diseases emerge. Because of recent developments in the "historicist sciences" (bioarchaeology and palaeogenetics), it is possi... |
| HISTORY343G | Tobacco and Health in World History: How Big Nic created the template for global science denial | Cigarettes are the world's leading cause of death--but how did we come into this world, where 6 trillion cigarettes are smoked every year? Here we explore the political, cultural, and technological origins of the cigarette and cigarette epidemic, us... |
| HISTORY344F | Innovations in Inclusive Design in Tech | This d-school class prototypes concepts and methods for inclusive design and considers intersecting social factors in designing new technologies. Examples of products (including objects, services, and systems) gone awry will serve as prompts for desi... |
| HISTORY345A | Africa in the Era of the Slave Trade | The slave trade, including the trans-Saharan, Indian Ocean, and trans-Atlantic trades, constituted nearly a millennium of interaction with the wider world and set in motion transformations in African societies, polities, and cultures. Topics include... |
| HISTORY345B | African Encounters with Colonialism | This colloquium is a broad sweep of some of the main themes in the history of the colonial period for Africa. A course of this nature can not help but be a selective sample of the field. For example, topics on the end of slavery in Africa, on the s... |
| HISTORY346F | Women and Autobiography in African History | This graduate colloquium focuses on the place of women in modern African history. We focus specifically on the literary techniques that African women have used to represent themselves to the outside world. In the course of ten in-depth seminars, we w... |
| HISTORY346G | Participatory Research in African History | Historical research in Africa is liable to issues of authenticity and relevance to local communities, as well as power disparities between researcher and subject. Can we turn this weakness into a strength by developing theory and practice of partici... |
| HISTORY348 | Religion, Radicalization and Media in Africa since 1945 | What are the paths to religious radicalization, and what role have media- new and old- played in these conversion journeys? We examine how Pentecostal Christians and Reformist Muslims in countries such as South Africa, Nigeria, Sudan, and Ethiopia ha... |
| HISTORY349 | Bodies, Technologies, and Natures in Africa | This interdisciplinary course explores how modern African histories, bodies, and natures have been entangled with technological activities. Viewing Africans as experts and innovators, we consider how technologies have mediated, represented, or perfor... |
| HISTORY349A | The Mamluks: Slave-Soldiers and Sultans of Medieval Egypt | Known as ghulam or mamluk in Arabic, the slave-soldier was a ubiquitous phenomenon in the world of medieval Islam. Usually pagan steppe nomads, mamluks were purchased in adolescence, converted to Islam, taught Arabic, and trained to lead armies. Some... |
| HISTORY34A | European Witch Hunts | (Same as HISTORY 134A. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 134A.) After the Reformation, in the midst of state building and scientific discovery, Europeans conducted a series of deadly witch hunts, violating their own laws and proc... |
| HISTORY35 | Sustainability and Civilization | Our civilization faces multiple sustainability challenges. Climate change often dominates public conversation, but in fact, a whole range of environmental, economic, political, and cultural trends threaten the structures that sustain the societies we... |
| HISTORY351A | Core in American History, Part I | May be repeated for credit. |
| HISTORY351B | Core in American History, Part II | No Description Set |
| HISTORY351C | Core in American History, Part III | Core in American History, Part III |
| HISTORY351D | Core in American History, Part IV | May be repeated once for credit. |
| HISTORY351E | Core in American History, Part V | Required of all first-year United States History Ph.D. students. Topics in Twentieth Century United States History. |
| HISTORY351F | Core in American History, Part VI | Required of all first-year Ph.D. students in U.S. History. This course is designed to provide graduate students with an intensive introduction to twentieth-century U.S. social, political, transnational, and cultural history and historiography. We wil... |
| HISTORY351J | American Slavery and Its Afterlives | How did the institution of American slavery come to an end? The story is more complex than most people know. This course examines the rival forces that fostered slavery's simultaneous contraction in the North and expansion in the South between 1776 a... |
| HISTORY352 | Originalism and the American Constitution: History and Interpretation | Except for the Bible no text has been the subject of as much modern interpretive scrutiny as the United States Constitution. This course explores both the historical dimensions of its creation as well as the meaning such knowledge should bring to bea... |
| HISTORY352B | History of American Law | (Formerly Law 318. Now Law 3504.) This course examines the growth and development of American legal institutions with particular attention to crime and punishment, slavery and race relations, the role of law in developing the economy, and the place... |
| HISTORY353C | Histories of Racial Capitalism | This colloquium takes as its starting point the insistence that the movement, settlement, and hierarchical arrangements of indigenous communities and people of African descent is inseparable from regimes of capital accumulation. It builds on the conc... |
| HISTORY353F | Thinking the American Revolution | No period in American history has generated as much creative political thinking as the era of the American Revolution. This course explores the origins and development of that thought from the onset of the dispute between Great Britain and its Americ... |
| HISTORY354B | Animism, Gaia, and Alternative Approaches to the Environment | Indigenous knowledges have been traditionally treated as a field of research for anthropologists and as mistaken epistemologies, i.e., un-scientific and irrational folklore. However, within the framework of environmental humanities, current interest... |
| HISTORY354E | The Rise of American Democracy | (History 254E is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 354E is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Where did American democracy come from? Prior to and during the American Revolution, few who lived in what became the United State... |
| HISTORY354F | Law and Empire in U.S. History | (Same as LAW 3506. Instructor consent required for History 354F.) This course will examine the interrelationship between legal norms and empire in the history of the United States. Topics in this part will include the Constitution as an imperial do... |
| HISTORY354G | The News Media and American Democracy | The role of the news media in a democracy has been a source of controversy throughout American history. This colloquium will examine how technology, capitalism, law, and politics have reshaped the press over time and how the press, in turn, has impac... |
| HISTORY355D | Racial Identity in the American Imagination | From Sally Hemings to Barack Obama, this course explores the ways that racial identity has been experienced, represented, and contested throughout American history. Engaging historical, legal, and literary texts and films, this course examines major... |
| HISTORY355F | The Civil War and Reconstruction Era | (Undergraduates, enroll in 255F; Graduates, enroll in 355F.) This course examines the critical period between 1860, when the first states seceded in defense of enslavement, and 1896, when the Supreme Court's Plessy v. Ferguson decision affirmed the c... |
| HISTORY355G | Planning Suburban America | In 2021 Governor Galvin Newsom singed a law ending single-family zoning in the state of California, a remarkable departure for the state of California, which had pioneered automobile-centric suburban development. This course aims to contextualize con... |
| HISTORY356E | The American Civil War: The Lived Experience | What was it like to live in the United States during the Civil War? This course uses the lenses of racial/ethnic identity, gender, class, and geography (among others) to explore the breadth of human experience during this singular moment in American... |
| HISTORY356G | Constructing Race and Religion in America | This seminar focuses on the interrelationships between social constructions of race and social interpretations of religion in America. How have assumptions about race shaped religious worldviews? How have religious beliefs shaped racial attitudes? Ho... |
| HISTORY357E | History of Conservatism | What is conservatism in America? Where did it come from, and where might it be going? Looking at conservatism as a political, social, and intellectual movement, we will consider these questions by reading primary and secondary sources and archival m... |
| HISTORY358A | Back to the Future: Media, Art, and Politics in the 1980s | (COMM 128 is offered for 5 units, COMM 228 is offered for 4 units. COMM 328 is offered for 3-5 units.)This seminar covers the intersection of politics, media and art in the U.S. from the end of the Vietnam War in 1975 to the fall of the Berlin Wall i... |
| HISTORY358G | The Origins of American Liberalism | In the 1870s, liberalism in America was associated with freedom of contract, small government, and, quite often, restrictions on suffrage. Today, liberalism means nearly the opposite of that. This class examines how factors like war, industrializatio... |
| HISTORY359C | The Civil Rights Movement in American History and Memory | This course examines the origins, conduct, and complex legacy of the Civil Rights Movement, as well as the continuing struggle over how the movement should be remembered and represented. Topics examined include: the NAACP legal campaign against se... |
| HISTORY359E | American Interventions, 1898-Present | This class seeks to examine the modern American experience with limited wars, beginning with distant and yet pertinent cases, and culminating in the war in Iraq. Although this class will examine war as a consequence of foreign policy, it will not fo... |
| HISTORY360P | American Protest Movements, Past and Present | (History 260P is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 360P is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Societal change comes only when individuals and groups speak out, perseverantly, against prevailing norms. This course examines th... |
| HISTORY361D | History of Civil Rights Law | (Same as LAW 7838.) This is a seminar that will examine canonical civil rights law using history. We will investigate the historical context behind the enactment of particular laws and judicial decisions. We will also discuss the meaning and implicat... |
| HISTORY364 | History of Prisons and Immigration Detention | This course will explore the history of the growing prison and immigration detention systems in the United States. They will pay particular attention to how they developed and how they affect different populations. |
| HISTORY369F | Modern American History: From Civil Rights to Human Rights | (History 269F is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 369F is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) This focuses on American social justice movements during the years since the passage of landmark civil rights legislation during t... |
| HISTORY36N | Gay Autobiography | Preference to freshmen. Gender, identity, and solidarity as represented in nine autobiographies: Isherwood, Ackerley, Duberman, Monette, Louganis, Barbin, Cammermeyer, Gingrich, and Lorde. To what degree do these writers view sexual orientation as a... |
| HISTORY371 | Graduate Colloquium: Explorations in Latin American History and Historiography | Introduction to modern Latin American history and historiography, including how to read and use primary sources for independent research. |
| HISTORY371B | Latinx History | This course provides students with an introduction to Latinx history and places it within a broader cultural context. Along these lines it considers the legacies of colonialism, the transnational migration, race and racialization, and the histories... |
| HISTORY371C | Iberian Expansion Through the Looking Glass: One World or Many? | The conquerors, missionaries, and historians who reflected on Iberian overseas expansion during the early modern period often asked themselves a crucial question: was there only one world or many? Were the Americas a 'New World,' unknown to the ancie... |
| HISTORY372B | Colonial Mexico: Images and Power | How did images maintain, construct, or transform political power during the conquest and colonization of Mexico? The creation and destruction of visual materials in this period had a complicated relationship with power. The pictographic codices that... |
| HISTORY373 | Mexican Immigration to the United States | This course is an introduction to the history of Mexican migration to the United States. Barraged with anti-immigrant rhetoric and calls for bigger walls and more restrictive laws, few people in the United States truly understand the historical trend... |
| HISTORY374C | Mexican American History | This course will explore the history of Mexican migrants and Mexican Americans from 1848 to the present. |
| HISTORY377 | Refugees and Asylum | This course explores the histories of refugees and asylum seekers to the United States and helps students learn how people seek asylum by working on the legal cases of current asylum seekers. |
| HISTORY378 | The Historical Ecology of Latin America | This seminar explores the ways in which access to natural resources has translated into political and economic power in Latin America and the Caribbean, from the colonial period to the present. We will examine how state-building projects (colonialism... |
| HISTORY37D | Germany's Wars and the World, 1848-2010 | (History 37D is 3 units; History 137D is 5 units.)This course examines a series of explosive encounters between Germans, Europe, and the world. Starting with the overlooked revolutions of 1848 and ending with the reunification of West Germany and Eas... |
| HISTORY380B | The Birth of Islam: Authority, Community, and Resistance | This course explores the historical problem of how authority and community (in both the political and religious sense) were defined and challenged in the early Islamic period. Chronological topics covered include: the political, cultural, and religi... |
| HISTORY380C | Archives, Documents, and Manuscripts: Sources of Ottoman History | The seminar focuses on Ottoman-Turkish texts in various genres - political and moral treatises, histories, legal canons and court records, imperial decrees and fiscal documents, travelogues, private letters and novellas - gathered from archival sourc... |
| HISTORY381D | Introduction to Islamic Law | What is Islamic law? What kinds of sources do we use to access Islamic law, and how has Islamic legal thinking and practice changed historically? This course introduces students to topics in Islamic law while addressing questions of continuity and... |
| HISTORY381E | Oil, Maps, Data: Technology in the Middle East | This course introduces students to a wide range of humanities and social science concepts pertaining to the global study of technology with an emphasis on the Middle East in the 19th, 20th and 21st-centuries. The main body of the course focuses on th... |
| HISTORY382J | Disasters in Middle Eastern History | (History 282J is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 382J is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) This course explores the history of disasters in the Middle East from the early modern period to the mid-20th-century. We will tra... |
| HISTORY383B | The Ottoman Empire and Iran: An Intertwined History of Islamic Eurasia | A history of the Ottoman Empire and Iran (under the Timurid, Safavid, Afsharid and Qajar dynasties) from the 14th to the early 20th century. The course invites students to think the Ottoman and Iranian experiences as a connected history, bridging se... |
| HISTORY383B | The Ottoman Empire and Iran: An Intertwined History of Islamic Eurasia | A history of the Ottoman Empire and Iran (under the Timurid, Safavid, Afsharid and Qajar dynasties) from the 14th to the early 20th century. The course invites students to think the Ottoman and Iranian experiences as a connected history, bridging se... |
| HISTORY383C | The Medieval Middle East: Crusaders, Turks, and Mongols | This course surveys the history of the Middle East from c.950 A.D. to c.1517 A.D., placing particular emphasis on the following questions: What were the social, cultural, and political contexts for conversion to Islam in the Middle Ages? How did the... |
| HISTORY383F | Capital and Crisis in the Middle East and the World | How are crises imagined, named, and categorized? How do economic crises intersect with pandemics, violence and environmental disaster to redefine the workings of capital? This course approaches these questions through critical reading in the historie... |
| HISTORY383J | Global Islam | (Undergraduates, enroll in 283J; Graduates, enroll in 383J.) Explores the history and politics of Islam in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas --- and of the novel connections that have linked Muslim communities across the globe in... |
| HISTORY384 | The Ottoman Empire: Conquest, Coexistence, and Coffee | (History 284 is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 384 is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) The Ottoman Empire ruled the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe from the 15th to the early 20th centuries. How did the Ott... |
| HISTORY384E | Contemporary Muslim Political Thought | This course aims to provide an intellectual history of contemporary Muslim political thought. It presents post-nineteenth century Muslim contributions to political thought. It is designed as a survey of some major thinkers from the Arab world to Iran... |
| HISTORY384F | Empires, Markets and Networks: Early Modern Islamic World Between Europe and China, 1400-1900 | Focuses on political regimes, transregional connections, economic interactions and sociocultural formations in the early modern Islamic Afro-Eurasia. Topics include complex political-economic systems of the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires and exp... |
| HISTORY385A | Graduate Colloquium in Early Modern Jewish History | Core colloquium in Jewish History, 17th to 19th centuries. |
| HISTORY385B | Graduate Colloquium in Jewish History, 19th-20th Centuries | Instructor consent required. |
| HISTORY38S | All That Glitters is not Gold: The Country House in Modern Britain | The country house is more than just the setting for period dramas starring Maggie Smith; its story, from construction to demolition, is also that of modern Britain. This class is a biography of the country house, told each week as a chapter of histor... |
| HISTORY39 | Modern Britain and the Empire, 1688-2016 | (History 39 is offered for 3 units; History 139 is offered for 5 units.) From American Independence to the latest war in Iraq. Topics include: the rise of the modern British state and economy; imperial expansion and contraction; the formation of clas... |
| HISTORY390 | North Korea in a Historical and Cultural Perspective | North Korea has been dubbed secretive, its leaders unhinged, its people mindless dupes. Such descriptions are partly a result of the control that the DPRK exerts over texts and bodies that come through its borders. Filtered through foreign media, Nor... |
| HISTORY391B | The City in Imperial China | The evolution of cities in the early imperial, medieval, and early modern periods. Topics include physical structure, social order, cultural forms, economic roles, relations to rural hinterlands, and the contrast between imperial capitals and other c... |
| HISTORY391E | Maps, Borders, and Conflict in East Asia | (Students enroll for 3 OR 5 units.)The nature of borders and border conflicts in N.E. Asia from the 17th to the early 20th century. Focus is on contact zones between China, Russia, Korea, and Japan. The geopolitical imperatives that drove states to... |
| HISTORY391G | Pre-Modern Chinese Warfare | This course examines the evolution of warfare in China, and its impact on the evolving political and social orders, from the earliest states through the Mongol conquest. It will study how changing military technology was inextricably linked to change... |
| HISTORY391K | Korean History and Culture before 1900 | This course serves as an introduction to Korean culture, society, and history before the modern period. It begins with a discussion of early Korea and controversies over Korean origins; the bulk of the course will be devoted to the Chos'n period (139... |
| HISTORY392A | Gender in Modern South Asia | Gender is crucial to understanding the political, cultural, and economic trajectories of communities in colonial and postcolonial South Asia. Throughout this course, we will ask a series of questions: How does gender structure conceptions of home, co... |
| HISTORY392B | Law and Society in Late Imperial China | Connections between legal and social history. Ideology and practice, center and periphery, and state-society tensions and interactions. Readings introduce the work of major historians on concepts and problems in Ming-Qing history. |
| HISTORY392D | Japan in Asia, Asia in Japan | (History 292D is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 392D is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) How Japan and Asia mutually shaped each other in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Focus is on Japanese imperialism in Asia and it... |
| HISTORY392F | Culture and Religions in Korean History | This colloquium explores the major themes of Korean history before 1800 and the role of culture and religions in shaping the everyday life of Chosôn-dynasty Koreans. Themes include the aristocracy and military in the Koryô dynasty, Buddhism and Confu... |
| HISTORY392G | Modern Korea | Examines seminal works and major historical debates in the study of modern Korea. Topics include the state and society in the Choson dynasty, reform and rebellion in the nineteenth century, colonization, gender and colonial modernity, national identi... |
| HISTORY393 | Frontier Expansion and Ethnic Statecraft in the Qing Empire | The legacy of the Qing dynasty in the territorial boundaries claimed by the People's Republic of China including the frontier zones that lie outside China proper. How the Qing acquired and ruled its frontier territories. Growth and migration of the H... |
| HISTORY393A | State, Society, and Economy in Qing Dynasty China | Historical scholarship on China during the Qing period, including the gentry, civil examinations, and the debate about social mobility; merchants, cities, and the debate about civil society/public sphere; taxation, local security, and famine relief;... |
| HISTORY393B | Living in Ancient China: A Material Culture History | (Undergraduates, enroll in 293B; Master's students, enroll in 393B.) This course explores the embodied means and meanings of "living" in ancient China, roughly from 1200 BCE to 220 CE, as a way of understanding the sociocultural history of the period... |
| HISTORY393E | Female Divinities in China | This course examines the fundamental role of powerful goddesses in Chinese religion. It covers the entire range of imperial history and down to the present. It will look at, among other questions, what roles goddesses played in the spirit world, how... |
| HISTORY393F | Chinese Politics and Society | (Doctoral students register for 317B.) This seminar examines scholarship on major political developments in the People's Republic of China during its first four decades. The topics to be explored in depth this year include the incorporation of Tibet... |
| HISTORY394E | The Past in Ancient China | Introduction to the most important sources in the early Chinese historiographical tradition (broadly conceived), examining how the past was mobilized across a range of textual genres including poetry, speeches, philosophy, narrative, and rhetoric. Pr... |
| HISTORY394K | Chinese Migrations | (This section is for MA students. Please contact Kai Dowding for the permission number at kdowding@stanford.edu.) This seminar will explore global patterns of Chinese migration, and consider both continuities and change within these movements. We wil... |
| HISTORY395B | Readings in Early Modern Japanese History | No Description Set |
| HISTORY395J | Gender and Sexuality in Chinese History | No Description Set |
| HISTORY396D | Historiography of Modern Japan | Introduces students to the major historical problems and historiographic trends in the study of modern Japan from the Meiji period to the present. Themes include approaches to late Meiji culture and politics, the formation of imperial subjects and c... |
| HISTORY396E | Japan's Long Nineteenth Century | Graduate historiography colloquium on Japan's early modern / modern transition |
| HISTORY396F | Science and Society in Modern South Asia | (Graduates, enroll in 396F. Undergraduates, enroll in 296F.) Modern science, technology and medicine are global phenomena, and yet scientific knowledge, as the product of human activity, reflects the social, political, economic and cultural contexts... |
| HISTORY396L | The Worlds of Labor in Modern India | This colloquium will introduce students to the exciting and expanding field of Indian labor history and provide them a comprehensive historiographical foundation in this area of historical research. Seminars will engage with one key monograph in the... |
| HISTORY397 | Core Colloquium in South Asian History | This graduate colloquium is a foundational and intensive introduction to the field of South Asian history. It will engage with some of the major areas of research on South Asia (especially the modern period), the major conceptual frameworks deployed... |
| HISTORY398 | Major Topics in Modern Chinese History: Cultural and Intellectual History | China has experienced profound changes over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the span of less than two hundred years, the country has witnessed colonial incursions by multiple Western powers, the demise of an imperial system o... |
| HISTORY398C | Race, Gender, & Sexuality in Chinese History | This course examines the diverse ways in which identities--particularly race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality have been understood and experienced in Chinese societies, broadly defined, from the imperial period to the present day. Topics include cha... |
| HISTORY398E | Chinese Pop Culture: A History | This discussion course examines the evolution of popular culture in the Chinese-speaking world and diaspora from the late imperial era to the present. Analyzing myth, literature, medicine, music, art, film, fashion, and internet culture will help stu... |
| HISTORY398F | Social Movements and State Power in China, 1644-Present | (This section is for MA students; to enroll, please contact Kai Dowding kdowding@stanford.edu for the permission number.) This discussion course investigates the ideological, political and environmental conditions that have shaped social movements,... |
| HISTORY399P | Mastering Uncertainty: The Power of Archival Thinking | When confronted with chaos and uncertainty, do you know how to stay calm, ask the right questions, and find the answers? Archival researchers do. Do you realize that less than 1 percent of primary sources have been digitized, and that 99 percent stil... |
| HISTORY399W | Graduate Directed Reading | No Description Set |
| HISTORY39Q | Were They Really "Hard Times"? Mid-Victorian Social Movements and Charles Dickens | "It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it." So begins Charles Dickens description of Coketown in Hard Times. And it only seems to get more grim from there. But the world that Dickens sough... |
| HISTORY3D | Dangerous Ideas | Ideas matter. Concepts such as equality, tradition, and Hell have inspired social movements, shaped political systems, and dramatically influenced the lives of individuals. Others, like race and urban renewal, play an important role in contemporary d... |
| HISTORY3F | The Changing Face of War: Introduction to Military History | (HISTORY 3F is 3 units; 103F is 5 units.) Introduces students to the rich history of military affairs and, at the same time, examines the ways in which we think of change and continuity in military history. How did war evolve from ancient times, both... |
| HISTORY3J | Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives | Interdisciplinary approach to understanding the extent and complexity of the global phenomenon of human trafficking, especially for forced prostitution, labor exploitation, and organ trade, focusing on human rights violations and remedies. Provides a... |
| HISTORY3N | Terrorism | Why do we categorize some acts of violence as terrorism? How do the practitioners of such violence legitimize their actions? What are the effects of terror on culture, society, and politics? This course explores these questions around the globe from... |
| HISTORY3S | A Global History of the Apocalypse: Millenarian Movements in the Modern World | This course will examine the rise, fall, and legacy of modern millenarian movements-- movements that claim that our corrupt world is about to be swept away, to be replaced with a particular version of paradise-- in a global perspective. Drawing on a... |
| HISTORY40 | World History of Science: From Prehistory through the Scientific Revolution | (History 40 is 3 units; History 140 is 5 units.) The earliest developments in science, the prehistoric roots of technology, the scientific revolution, and global voyaging. Theories of human origins and the oldest known tools and symbols. Achievements... |
| HISTORY401A | Spatial History: Concepts, Methods, Problems | What can digital mapping and spatial analysis bring to history? How have historians written spatial history in the past? How do scholars in other disciplines deal with space and what can we learn from them? The course provides students with conceptua... |
| HISTORY401B | Spatial History, Part II | Prerequisite: 401A. |
| HISTORY402B | Coffee, Sugar, and Chocolate: Commodities and Consumption in World History, 1200-1800 | Many of the basic commodities that we consider staples of everyday life became part of an increasingly interconnected world of trade, goods, and consumption between 1200 and 1800. This seminar offers an introduction to the material culture of the lat... |
| HISTORY402D | The History of Genocide | This course will explore the history, politics, and character of genocide from the beginning of world history to the present. It will also consider the ways that the international system has developed to prevent and punish genocide. |
| HISTORY403A | Materialities of Power, Part I | How is power made material? And how do material things--objects, commodities, technologies, and infrastructures --reflect, change, consolidate, or distribute power? This research seminar is aimed at PhD students in history, anthropology, and STS who... |
| HISTORY403B | Materialities of Power, Part II | How is power made material? And how do material things --objects, commodities, technologies, and infrastructures--reflect, change, consolidate, or distribute power? This research seminar is aimed at PhD students in history, anthropology, and STS who... |
| HISTORY40A | The Scientific Revolution | (Same as History 140A. 40A is 3 units; 140A is 5 units.) What do people know and how do they know it? What counts as scientific knowledge? In the 16th and 17th centuries, understanding the nature of knowledge engaged the attention of individuals an... |
| HISTORY41S | The Spirit in Motion: Desire in Early Modern Europe | How did people experience and express desire -- for objects, for ideas, or for each other -- in the early modern period? From lusting after a beautiful woman to frantically seeking gold in the farthest corners of the earth, early modern individuals a... |
| HISTORY424A | The Soviet Civilization | (History 224A is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 424A is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Socialist visions and practices of the organization of society and messianic politics; Soviet mass state violence; culture, living... |
| HISTORY424B | The Soviet Civilization, Part 2 | Prerequisite: HISTORY 224A/424A |
| HISTORY425A | Graduate Research Seminar: Russia and East Europe | Graduate research seminar. |
| HISTORY425B | Graduate Research Seminar: Russia and East Europe | Prerequisite: HISTORY 425A. |
| HISTORY42N | The Missing Link | This course explores the history of evolutionary science, focusing upon debates surrounding the evolutionary place of human beings in the natural world, by examining the history of the idea of a "missing link," an intermediate form between humans and... |
| HISTORY42Q | Animal Archives: History Beyond the Human | There's a great big world out there. We humans are just one of a million or more animate beings on this planet. Nonhuman animals have their own histories that influence, intersect with, and stand apart from our own. This IntroSem takes animals seriou... |
| HISTORY42S | Cannibalism in Early Modern Europe: The Ultimate Taboo in Historical Context | Cannibalism (or anthropophagy) may be one of many societies' greatest taboos, but how have ideas about the act changed over time? Taking a historical perspective on cannibalism, this course explores its meanings in Europe during the early modern peri... |
| HISTORY430 | Graduate Research Seminar: Early Modern Europe | Prerequisite: HISTORY 402B. Students may research any aspect of late medieval, Renaissance, and early modern history, ca. 1300-1800. Students wishing to take this seminar must enroll in HISTORY 402B (Coffee, Sugar, and Chocolate: Commodities and Cons... |
| HISTORY433A | Research Seminar in Modern Europe | Students will complete an article-length research paper based on primary sources. |
| HISTORY433B | Research Seminar in Modern Europe | Prerequisite: HISTORY 433A. |
| HISTORY438 | European History Workshop | All European history graduate students in residence register for this weekly workshop, at which dissertation chapters and prospectuses, papers, and grant proposals by students and faculty are read and discussed. |
| HISTORY44 | Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment | (HISTORY 44 is offered for 3 units; HISTORY 144 is offered for 5 units.) Explores "Gendered Innovations" or how sex, gender, and intersectional analysis in research spark discovery and innovation. This course focuses on sex and gender, and considers... |
| HISTORY440B | The History of Evolution, Part II | Second half of Graduate Research Seminar sequence. Prerequisite: HISTORY 440A. |
| HISTORY445A | Research Seminar in African History | This is a two quarter research seminar in which students will conduct research using primary sources with the goal of producing an original work of history. |
| HISTORY445B | Research Seminar in African History | Prerequisite: HISTORY 445A. This is the second half of a two quarter research seminar in which students conduct research using primary sources with the goal of producing an original work of history. |
| HISTORY448A | Colonial States and African Societies, Part I | (History 248S is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 448A is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Colonialism set in motion profound transformations of African societies. These transformations did not occur immediately followin... |
| HISTORY448B | Colonial States and African Societies, Part II | Second part of the research seminar offered in the Winter. Students continue their research and present their penultimate drafts in week 8. |
| HISTORY44Q | Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment | Explores "Gendered Innovations" or how sex and gender analysis in research spark discovery and innovation. This course focuses on sex and gender, and considers factors intersecting with sex and gender, including age, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic st... |
| HISTORY452A | Graduate Research Seminar: American Cultural and Intellectual History | Major methods and issues. Goal is to produce a research paper based on primary sources suitable for inclusion in a doctoral dissertation or submission to a peer-reviewed scholarly journal. Topics include: compiling primary and secondary source biblio... |
| HISTORY452B | Graduate Research Seminar: American Cultural and Intellectual History, Part 2 | Prerequisite: HISTORY 452A |
| HISTORY45B | Africa in the 20th Century | (Same as HISTORY 145B. 45B is 3 units; 145B is 5 units) CREATIVITY. AGENCY. RESILIENCE. This is the African history with which this course will engage. African scholars and knowledge production of Africa that explicitly engages with theories of race... |
| HISTORY45N | Power, Prestige and Politics in African Societies | This seminar infuses a human dimension into the study of politics in Africa. Considering the 1800s to the present day, the seminar prompts students to creatively connect the political with the personal. We will examine how gender, intimate and roman... |
| HISTORY460 | Research Seminar in America in the World | Ways to place American history in an international context. Comparative, transnational, diplomatic, and world systems are approaches to complete a research paper based on research into primary materials. Historical methodologies, research strategies,... |
| HISTORY468A | Graduate Research Seminar: U.S. History in the 20th Century | No Description Set |
| HISTORY468B | Graduate Research Seminar: U.S. History in the 20th Century Part II | Prerequisite: History 468A. |
| HISTORY46N | Show and Tell: Creating Provenance Histories of African Art | Provenance refers to the chain of custody of a particular art object during its lifetime. Put another way, provenance refers to all the individuals, communities, and institutions who have owned (both legally and illegally), kept, stored, exhibited, d... |
| HISTORY46S | Cape to Cairo: Decolonization and African Urban Life 1940s-1960s | Decolonization across Africa was complicated, messy and sometimes violent. It was also an important moment for (re) imagining and (re)structuring society resulting in fascinating historical encounters among different groups. This course explores deco... |
| HISTORY47 | History of South Africa | (Same as HISTORY 147. HISTORY 47 is for 3 units; HISTORY 147 is for 5 units.) Introduction, focusing particularly on the modern era. Topics include: precolonial African societies; European colonization; the impact of the mineral revolution; the evol... |
| HISTORY47S | Black Earth Rising: Law and Society in Postcolonial Africa | Is the International Criminal Court a neocolonial institution? Should African art in Western museums be returned? Why have anti-homosexuality laws emerged in many African countries? This course engages these questions, and more, to explore how Africa... |
| HISTORY48 | The Egyptians | This course traces the emergence and development of the distinctive cultural world of the ancient Egyptians over nearly 4,000 years. Through archaeological and textual evidence, we will investigate the social structures, religious beliefs, and expre... |
| HISTORY481 | Graduate Research Seminar in Ottoman and Middle East History | Student-selected research topics. May be repeated for credit |
| HISTORY486A | Graduate Research Seminar in Jewish History | Graduate Research Seminar in Jewish History |
| HISTORY486B | Graduate Research Seminar in Jewish History | Prerequisite: HISTORY 486A. |
| HISTORY48Q | South Africa: Contested Transitions | Preference to sophomores. The inauguration of Nelson Mandela as president in May 1994 marked the end of an era and a way of life for South Africa. The changes have been dramatic, yet the legacies of racism and inequality persist. Focus: overlapping a... |
| HISTORY48S | African Voices: Literature and Arts in 20th Century South Africa | How did South African Black intellectuals and artists utilize literature and other artistic forms to articulate their increasingly precarious position in the country's political landscape in the 20th century? What hopes and visions were capt... |
| HISTORY491A | Modern Korea Research Seminar | This graduate seminar prepares students to undertake research using Korean-language sources on a variety of themes in modern Korea. Students will identify characteristics of major online and offline archives in Korean studies, learn essential skills... |
| HISTORY491B | Modern Korea Research Seminar | This graduate seminar prepares students to undertake research using Korean-language sources on a variety of themes in modern Korea. Students will identify characteristics of major online and offline archives in Korean studies, learn essential skills... |
| HISTORY495A | Qing Legal Documents | (Same as LAW 5037.) How to use Qing legal documents for research. Winter: sample documents that introduce the main genres including: the Qing code and commentaries; magistrates' handbooks and published case collections; and case records from Chinese... |
| HISTORY495B | Qing Legal Documents | How to use Qing legal documents for research. Winter: sample documents that introduce the main genres including: the Qing code and commentaries; magistrates' handbooks and published case collections; and case records from Chinese archives. Spring: cl... |
| HISTORY496A | Research Seminar in Chinese History | First part of a two part sequence. Primary sources and research methods to be used in the study of modern Chinese history. |
| HISTORY496B | Research Seminar in Chinese History | Second part of a two part sequence. Primary sources and research methods to be used in the study of modern Chinese history. Prerequisite: HISTORY 496A. |
| HISTORY498C | Japanese Imperial Archives, Part 1 | First part of a two-quarter research graduate seminar on Japanese imperialism in Asia. Students explore different types of archives, from national and research libraries to online databases; learn various methods of research including oral history; a... |
| HISTORY498D | Japanese Imperial Archives, Part 2 | Second part of a two-quarter research graduate seminar on Japanese imperialism in Asia. Students complete research papers based on research conducted for History 498C; the class meets occasionally to report on progress and discuss working drafts. Pre... |
| HISTORY499X | Graduate Research | Units by arrangement. May be repeated for credit. |
| HISTORY49S | African Futures: Nationalism, Pan-Africanism, and Beyond | This course examines decolonization and its aftermath in sub-Saharan Africa. With a "wind of change" sweeping the continent, how did Africans imagine their futures together? From W.E.B. Du Bois to Black Panther, this course will engage in historical... |
| HISTORY50A | Colonial and Revolutionary America | (Same as HISTORY 150A. 50A is 3 units; 150A is 5 units.) Survey of the origins of American society and polity in the 17th and 18th centuries. Topics: the migration of Europeans and Africans and the impact on native populations; the emergence of racia... |
| HISTORY50B | Nineteenth Century America | (Same as HISTORY 150B. HISTORY 50B is 3 units; HISTORY 150B is 5 units.) Territorial expansion, social change, and economic transformation. The causes and consequences of the Civil War. Topics include: urbanization and the market revolution; slavery... |
| HISTORY50C | The United States in the Twentieth Century | (Same as HISTORY 150C. 50C is for 3 units; 150C is for 5 units.) 100 years ago, women and most African-Americans couldn't vote; automobiles were rare and computers didn't exist; and the U.S. was a minor power in a world dominated by European empires.... |
| HISTORY51B | The End of American Slavery, 1776-1865 | How did the institution of American slavery come to an end? The story is more complex than most people know. This course examines the rival forces that fostered slavery's simultaneous contraction in the North and expansion in the South between 1776 a... |
| HISTORY52Q | Democracy in Crisis: Learning from the Past | This January, an armed insurrection assaulted the U.S. Capital, trying to block the Electoral College affirmation of President Biden's election. For the past four years, American democracy has been in continual crisis. Bitter and differing views of w... |
| HISTORY53S | Black San Francisco | For over a century African-Americans have shaped the contours of San Francisco, a globally recognized metropolis, but their histories remain hidden. While endangered, Black San Francisco is still very much alive, and its history is an inextricable pi... |
| HISTORY54 | The History of Ideas in America, Part I (to 1900) | (Same as HISTORY 154. 54 is 3 units; 154 is 5 units.) How Americans considered problems such as slavery, imperialism, and sectionalism. Topics include: the political legacies of revolution; biological ideas of race; the Second Great Awakening; scienc... |
| HISTORY54B | The History of Ideas in America, Part II | This course explores intellectual life and culture in the United States during the twentieth century, examining the work and lives of social critics, essayists, artists, scientists, journalists, novelists, and sundry other thinkers. We will look at... |
| HISTORY54N | African American Women's Lives | This course encourages students to think critically about historical sources and to use creative and rigorous historical methods to recover African American women's experiences, which often have been placed on the periphery of American history and Am... |
| HISTORY54S | From Stanford to Stone Mountain: U.S. History, Memory, and Monuments | The future of America's memorial landscape is a subject of intense debate. How do societies remember? Who built the nation's monuments and memorials, and to what ends? Can the meaning of a memorial change over time? In this course, we will survey the... |
| HISTORY55F | The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1830 to 1877 | (History 55F is 3 units; History 155F is 5 units.)This course explores the causes, course, and consequences of the American Civil War. The Civil War profoundly impacted American life at national, sectional, and constitutional levels, and radically ch... |
| HISTORY58E | Stanford and Its Worlds: 1885-present | The past and future of Stanford University examined through the development of four critical "worlds," including the Western region of the United States, the US nation-state, the global academy, and the complex phenomena summarized by the name Silico... |
| HISTORY58EL | Stanford Archive Lab | Work together with a team of University Archivists, student archive assistants, and classmates on a public exhibition about a rotating theme. Learn what to search for in an archive, how to employ methods from history and sociology to understand and s... |
| HISTORY5C | Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives | (Same as History 105C. 5C is 3 units; 105C is 5 units.) Interdisciplinary approach to understanding the extent and complexity of the global phenomenon of human trafficking, especially for forced prostitution, labor exploitation, and organ trade, focu... |
| HISTORY5N | The Global Refugee Crisis | Worldwide there are more refugees and displaced people today than in any other period of human history. More than 90 million people across the planet have been forcibly displaced from their homes in recent years. How do we account for this crisis? An... |
| HISTORY5Q | The History of Information: From Movable Type to Machine Learning | Information has a history-- and it's not the one you've been told by Silicon Valley. In a series of propulsive, empirically rich, and provocative lectures and discussions, this course deep-dives into the history of information and IT, including movea... |
| HISTORY5S | Comparative Partitions: Religion, Identity, and the Nation-State | This course looks at demands for representation made by religious minority communities, specifically by Indian Muslim and European Jewish intellectuals, in the twentieth century. We will explore what national belonging means from the perspective of m... |
| HISTORY61 | The Politics of Sex: Gender, Race, and Sex in Modern America | This course explores the ways that individuals and movements for social and economic equality have redefined and contested gender and sexuality in the modern United States. Using a combination of primary and secondary sources, we will explore the int... |
| HISTORY61N | The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson | Thomas Jefferson assumed many roles during his life-- Founding Father, revolutionary, and author of the Declaration of Independence; natural scientist, inventor, and political theorist; slaveholder, founder of a major political party, and President o... |
| HISTORY62E | Extremism in America, from the Ku Klux Klan to January 6 | (62E is 3 units; 262E is 5 units.)This course is a historical analysis of extremism in the United States from Reconstruction through the present day, looking at such figures and movements and the KKK, the First Red Scare, Father Coughlin and the Chri... |
| HISTORY62S | From Runaway Wives to Dancing Girls: Urban Women in the Long Nineteenth Century | This course explores the ways in which women - white and black, immigrant and native born, free and enslaved - lived and labored in American cities during the long nineteenth century. Together we will examine a variety of primary sources including di... |
| HISTORY63N | The Feminist Critique: The History and Politics of Gender Equality | This course explores the long history of ideas about gender and equality. Each week we read, dissect, compare, and critique a set of primary historical documents (political and literary) from around the world, moving from the 15th century to the pres... |
| HISTORY64S | The Religious Right and Its Critics in America from 1920 to Today | In 2016, Donald Trump won 81% of white evangelical voters. Evangelical and conservative Catholic voters, members of the so-called Religious Right, have formed an essential pillar of the Republican Party for the entire lifetime of most Stanford underg... |
| HISTORY67S | The Vietnam War/The American War | This course explores the conflict called "the Vietnam War" in the United States and "the American War" in Vietnam - one of the longest and most violent wars of the twentieth century - from the perspectives of those who experienced it. Engaging divers... |
| HISTORY68D | American Prophet: The Inner Life and Global Vision of Martin Luther King, Jr. | Martin Luther King, Jr., was the 20th-century's best-known African-American leader, but the religious roots of his charismatic leadership are far less widely known. The documents assembled and published by Stanford's King Research and Education Inst... |
| HISTORY69Q | American Road Trips | "Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road." --Jack Kerouac, On the Road, 1957. From Jack Kerouac's On the Road to Cheryl Strayed's Wild, this course explores epic road trips of the twentieth century. Travel is a fundamenta... |
| HISTORY6S | An Environmental Problem: Energy, Pollution, Catastrophe | This course looks at pollution in the modern period through the lens of energy and resource use, focusing on four major categories of resources: coal, oil, nuclear power and metals. Key themes and topics, including colonialism, exploitation, disposab... |
| HISTORY6W | Community-Engaged Learning Workshop on Human Trafficking - Part I | Considers purpose, practice, and ethics of service learning. Provides training for students' work in community. Examines current scope of human trafficking in Bay Area, pressing concerns, capacity and obstacles to effectively address them. Student... |
| HISTORY70S | The Mexican-American War | Frequently overshadowed by the Louisiana Purchase and the Civil War, the Mexican-American War was central to antebellum conflicts over territorial expansion, the expansion of slavery, and debates about race, ethnicity, and citizenship. This course ex... |
| HISTORY73 | Mexican Migration to the United States | (History 73 is 3 units; History 173 is 5 units.) This course is an introduction to the history of Mexican migration to the United States. Barraged with anti-immigrant rhetoric and calls for bigger walls and more restrictive laws, few people in the Un... |
| HISTORY74 | Mexico Since 1876: The Road to Ayotzinapa | (History 74 is for 3 units; History 174 is for 5 units.) In September of 2014, 43 students from a Mexican teacher's college in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero were abducted and disappeared via the actions of police and organized crime. This shocking human right... |
| HISTORY77S | Independence or Death! The Transformation of Latin America in the Age of Revolution (1808-1831) | The first half of the nineteenth century saw a cascade of Revolutions transform Latin America from a collection of colonies into independent and sovereign countries struggling for their own national identity. The invasion of the Iberian Peninsula by... |
| HISTORY78 | History of Latin American Revolutions | This course will examine the causes and consequences of Latin American Revolutions of the 20th century. It will focus on Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Chile, and Bolivia. We will bring these revolutions and experiments in social change under an... |
| HISTORY78S | The Haitian Revolution: Slavery, Freedom, and the Atlantic World | How did the French colony of Saint-Domingue become Haiti, the world's first Black-led republic? What did Haiti symbolize for the African diaspora and the Americas at large? What sources and methods do scholars use to understand this history? To answe... |
| HISTORY79C | The Ethical Challenges of the Climate Catastrophe | (History 79C is 3 units; History 179C is 5 units.) This course explores the ethical challenges of the climate catastrophe from historical, social, economic, political, cultural and scientific perspectives. These include the discovery of global warmin... |
| HISTORY7W | Community-Engaged Learning Workshop on Human Trafficking - Part II | Prerequisite: HISTORY6W (FEMGEN 6W). Continuation of HISTORY 6W (FEMGEN 6W). Students will continue working on their projects with their community partners. Several class meetings and small group consultations throughout the quarter. (Cardinal Co... |
| HISTORY802 | TGR Dissertation | Units by arrangement. |
| HISTORY81B | Making the Modern Middle East | (Same as HISTORY 181B. 81B is 3 units; 181B is 5 units) This course aims to introduce students to major themes in the modern history of the region linking the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean worlds. No prerequisites or prior knowledge of the Middle Ea... |
| HISTORY82G | Making Palestine Visible | Israel-Palestine is one of the most difficult subjects to talk about, in large part because we in the United States do not have much exposure to Palestinian history, culture, and politics in their own terms. This course aims to humanize Palestinians... |
| HISTORY82S | Enemies Within: Hostile Minorities in Israel and Iraq in the 20th Century | This course explores the nation state in the Middle East through the perspectives of minority groups in Israel and Iraq. The class examines the origins of these two states since WWI, and considers the integral role that minority groups have played in... |
| HISTORY83A | Enlightenment and Genocide: Modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire | (HISTORY 83A is 3 units; HISTORY 183A is 5 units.) In the early eighteenth century, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, wife of the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, introduced Ottoman smallpox inoculation to western medicine. But over the next two ce... |
| HISTORY83S | Refugees, Routes, and Risks: How People and Things Moved in the Early Modern Period | How did people move, before the inventions of the train and steamship? How did they cross borders before the passport, or get news before the internet, the telephone, the telegraph? We often imagine people, things, and ideas in the early modern perio... |
| HISTORY85B | Jews in the Contemporary World: Culture, Pop Culture, and Representation | (HISTORY 85B is 3 units; HISTORY 185B is 5 units.) From Barbra Streisand to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, from The Dybbuk to Broad City, and from Moscow to LA, this course applies a multicultural perspective on different experiences of Jewishness in the 20th... |
| HISTORY85Q | Humanities Core: Middle East II -- Classic | How should we live? This course explores two ethical pathways: mysticism and rationality. They seem to be opposites, but as we'll see, some important historical figures managed to follow both at once. We will read works by successful judges, bureau... |
| HISTORY86Q | Blood and Money: The Origins of Antisemitism | For over two millennia, Jews and Judaism have been the object of sustained anxieties, fears, and fantasies, which have in turn underpinned repeated outbreaks of violence and persecution. This course will explore the development and impact of antisemi... |
| HISTORY87 | The Islamic Republics: Politics and Society in Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan | (Same as HISTORY 187. History majors and other taking 5 units, register for 187.) Explores the contested politics of these societies in modern times. Topics include controversies surrounding the meaning of revolution, state building, war, geopolitics... |
| HISTORY89S | Chinese Diaspora and the Making of the Pacific World, 1750-1911 | What do the city of Singapore, ICE, the abolition of the slave trade, and the latex condom have in common? All are entangled with the merchant princes, people-smugglers, indentured laborers, and rubber planters that made up the Chinese diaspora in th... |
| HISTORY8S | Whales, Bombs, & the Race to the Bottom: Oceanic Histories of Law, Environmentalism, & Human Rights | Oceans cover two thirds of the world's surface and play a vital role in global carbon storage, biodiversity, and food stocks. But who owns the oceans and their resources? And what rights and duties do countries, corporations, and individuals have at... |
| HISTORY90 | Early Chinese Thought | This lecture course examines the emergence of critical thought in early China. After a brief study of the social and political changes that made this emergence possible, it looks at the nature and roles of the thinkers, and finally their ideas about... |
| HISTORY91B | The City in Imperial China | (Same as HISTORY 191B. 91B is for 3 units; 191B is for 5 units.) The evolution of cities in the early imperial, medieval, and early modern periods. Topics include physical structure, social order, cultural forms, economic roles, relations to rural hi... |
| HISTORY91S | Before Footbinding: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Early and Medieval China | This course discusses women, gender, and sexuality from ancient China to the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD). During this period, gender norms and practices changed with the political system, state ideology, and family structure, as well as religions and l... |
| HISTORY93 | The Chinese Empire from the Mongol Invasion to the Boxer Uprising | (Same as HISTORY 193. 93 is 3 units; 193 is 5 units.) A survey of Chinese history from the 11th century to the collapse of the imperial state in 1911. Topics include absolutism, gentry society, popular culture, gender and sexuality, steppe nomads, th... |
| HISTORY93S | Beyond the Modern Girl: Gender, Sexuality, and Empire in Japan and Korea, 1900-1955 | In the 1920s and 1930s, the fashionable and iconoclastic "modern girl" appeared in media in Tokyo, Seoul, and beyond. Yet what, if anything, did she have to do with empire? And what other gendered experiences, identities, and movements emerged alongs... |
| HISTORY94B | Japan in the Age of the Samurai | (Same as HISTORY 194B. 94B is 3 units; 194B is 5 units.) From the Warring States Period to the Meiji Restoration. Topics include the three great unifiers, Tokugawa hegemony, the samurai class, Neoconfucian ideologies, suppression of Christianity, str... |
| HISTORY94S | Savoring Japan: Food and Society in Global Perspective | Sushi, Sukiyaki, and Ramen--why are they considered "Japanese?" This course provides insight into this question by exploring the transformations that the Japanese diet underwent in the early 20th century. While the course centers on modern Japan, we... |
| HISTORY95 | Modern Korean History | (Same as HISTORY 195. 95 is for 3 units; 195 is for 5 units.) This lecture course provides a general introduction to the history of modern Korea. Themes include the characteristics of the Chosôn dynasty, reforms and rebellions in the nineteenth cent... |
| HISTORY95C | Modern Japanese History: From Samurai to Pokemon | (95C is 3 units; 195C is 5 units.) Japan's modern transformation from the late 19th century to the present. Topics include: the Meiji revolution; industrialization and social dislocation; the rise of democracy and empire; total war and US occupation;... |
| HISTORY95E | Trenches, Guerrillas, and Bombs: Modern Warfare in East Asian History | (95E is 3 units; 295E is 5 units.) This course is an introduction to the field of military history. But rather than centering on the typical Western perspectives, it focuses on studying the East Asian modern warfare during the early 20th century. Stu... |
| HISTORY95N | Maps in the Modern World | Preference to freshmen. Through critical essays, maps, and atlases focusing on California, this seminar explores four principal themes: the roots of modern mapping in the rise of the state; maps as commodities; cartographies of race; and counter-mapp... |
| HISTORY96C | Resisting Empire: Anti-colonial Nationalism, Popular Politics & Decolonization in Modern South Asia | (HISTORY 96C is 3 units; 196C is 5 units.) How did subjects of British India respond to colonial rule? When and how did anti-colonial nationalism emerge in South Asia? How did leading thinkers of the region conceptualize the nature of colonialism and... |
| HISTORY96N | World War II in Asia | This course will explore the history of World War II in Asia. Moving beyond a narrow focus on the war as a U.S.-Japanese conflict, we will take a trans-Asian approach to study social, cultural, military, and political aspects of the war and its conse... |
| HISTORY96S | The World the Mongols Made: Nomads, Empire, Legacy | The Mongols created global history. Their enterprise was the largest land-based empire in world history, and it lasted longer than most of the competition. This course will examine the world that the Mongols left behind, a world whose ways the Mongo... |
| HISTORY97 | Southeast Asia: From Antiquity to the Modern Era | The history of S.E. Asia, comprising Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Burma, Cambodia, and Laos, from antiquity to the present. The spread of Indian cultural influences, the rise of indigenous states, and the emerge... |
| HISTORY97C | The Structure of Colonial Power: South Asia since the Eighteenth Century | How did the colonial encounter shape the making of modern South Asia? Was colonial rule a radical rupture from the pre-modern past or did it embody historical continuities? Did colonial rule cause the economic underdevelopment of the region or were r... |
| HISTORY98 | The History of Modern China | (Same as HISTORY 198. 98 is 3 units; 198 is 5 units.) This course charts major historical transformations in modern China, and will be of interest to those concerned with Chinese politics, culture, society, ethnicity, economy, gender, international r... |
| HISTORY98S | Crime and Punishment in Late Imperial China: Law, State Formation, and Society | How did crime and punishment in late imperial China compare to other parts of the world? What place did the law have in the imperial Chinese state's strategies of governance and in resolving social grievances? How did certain groups and behaviors com... |
| HISTORY9N | How to Start Your Own Country: Sovereignty and State-Formation in Modern History | What does it mean to start a country, or to acquire and possess sovereignty over a territory? This course will examine the historical evolution of fundamental concepts in our international system: state formation, statehood, and sovereignty. Each wee... |
| HISTORY9R | Humanities Research Intensive | Everyone knows that scientists do research, but how do you do research in the humanities? This seven-day course, taught over spring break, will introduce you to the excitement of humanities research, while preparing you to develop an independent summ... |
| JAPAN195C | Modern Japanese History: From Samurai to Pokemon | (95C is 3 units; 195C is 5 units.) Japan's modern transformation from the late 19th century to the present. Topics include: the Meiji revolution; industrialization and social dislocation; the rise of democracy and empire; total war and US occupation;... |
| JAPAN392D | Japan in Asia, Asia in Japan | (History 292D is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 392D is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) How Japan and Asia mutually shaped each other in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Focus is on Japanese imperialism in Asia and it... |
| JAPAN392D | Japan in Asia, Asia in Japan | (History 292D is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 392D is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) How Japan and Asia mutually shaped each other in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Focus is on Japanese imperialism in Asia and it... |
| JAPAN396D | Historiography of Modern Japan | Introduces students to the major historical problems and historiographic trends in the study of modern Japan from the Meiji period to the present. Themes include approaches to late Meiji culture and politics, the formation of imperial subjects and c... |