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Emma Flatt
7 different rooms available
7 different rooms available
An introduction to major political, religious, social, and cultural events from 3500 BCE to 1750 CE with a focus on Hindu, Muslim, and Buddhist groups before British colonial rule.
HIST 136- History of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh: South Asia since 1750
Iqbal Sevea & Zaheer Abbas
Davie-rm 0112 & Hamilton Hall- Rm 0523& Tate Turner Kuralt- Rm 0114
MoWe 3:35pm -4:25pm & Fr 9:05am-9:55am Fr 8:00am-8:50am
This course is an introduction to modern India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. We will investigate major political, social, economic, and cultural issues from 1750 to the present.
HIST 139 – History of Muslim Societies since 1500
Cemil Aydin
5 different room available
6 different times available
A broad interdisciplinary survey of the later Islamic empires since the 15th century and their successor societies in the modern Muslim world. Students may not receive credit for both ASIA 139/HIST 139 and ASIA 181/RELI 181
HIST 140 – The World since 1945
Donald Reid & Iqbal Sevea
11 different rooms available
11 different times available
This introduction to the contemporary world examines the Cold War and its international aftermath, decolonization, national development across a variety of cases, and trends in the global economy.
HIST 142 – Latin America under Colonial Rule
Kathryn Burns & Daniel Velasquez
Caldwell rm 0105 & Philips Rm 0222
MoWeFr 11:15am- 12:05pm & Fr 8:00am- 8:50am
Social and economic development under colonial rule, especially in Mexico and Peru.
HIST 144 – Women in the United States from Settlement to Present
Catherine Conner
Hanes Art Center - Rm 0116 & Genome Sciences Bldg - Rm 1373
Th 3:30pm - 4:20pm & Fr 8:00am- 8:50am
This course will survey the history of women, gender relations, and notions of sex difference in the United States from the colonial era to present times, with a special emphasis on women's varied experiences and expectations across divisions of class, race, and region. Key themes will include work, politics, citizenship, reproduction, sociability, and sexuality.
Hist 151 – European History to 1650
Lloyd Kramer & Kirsten Cooper
Howell - Rm 0115 & Cobb Hall rm 0024 & Philips - rm 0212
Mowe 11:15am- 12:05pm Th 11:15am & Fr 1:25pm 2:15pm
European history from Greek antiquity to the mid-17th century.
HIST 153 – From the Bible to Broadway: Jewish History to Modern Times
Karen Auerbach
Hamilton Hall - Rm 0452
MoWeFr 12:20pm-1:10pm
This class surveys the history of the Jews from ancient to modern times. It focuses on the development of Jewish religion, culture identity, and politics in Jewish communities in the Western, Atlantic and Middle Eastern Worlds. It also explores the development of antisemitism and anti-Jewish violence.
HIST 158 – Early Modern European History, 1450- 1815
Flora Cassen & Jay Smith
11 different rooms available
11 different times available
Intellectual and social structures, dynamics of social and political change, principles of authority, and bases of revolution from the Reformation to the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic period.
HIST 159 – From War to Prosperity : 20th-Century Europe
Konrad Jarausch & Peter Gengler
3 rooms available
5 different time available
A critical overview of 20th-century European history, with particular attention to the constant ethnic, religious, social, economic, and cultural struggles (including Holocaust, Cold War) in various subunits of the old continent.