History 330-349, Asian, Eurasian, and Middle Eastern History

 

HIS 330/Topics in Asian or Middle Eastern History

(periodically)
Focuses on differing topics of historical significance having to do with Eurasia and the Middle East. This course may be repeated for credit when the topic changes. May fulfill departmental distribution requirements.

Liberal Learning:

• SOCIAL CHANGE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES & CIVIC RESPONSIBILITIES

 

HIS 333/Early Chinese History

(periodically)
A history of China from its origins until the 17th century.

Liberal Learning:

• SOCIAL CHANGE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
• SOCIAL CHANGE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES & CIVIC RESPONSIBILITIES

 

HIS 334/Modern East Asia

(periodically)
The course will focus on the interrelated modern histories of China and Japan.

Liberal Learning:

• GLOBAL
• SOCIAL CHANGE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES & CIVIC RESPONSIBILITIES

 

HIS 335/Modern Japan

(periodically)
The course will examine the social, political, and economic development of modern Japan from 1800 to the present.

Liberal Learning:

• GLOBAL
• SOCIAL CHANGE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES & CIVIC RESPONSIBILITIES

 

HIS 336/Late Imperial China

(periodically)
A history of China from the 17th century to the early 20th century.

 

HIS 337/Twentieth Century China

(periodically)
The course will examine Chinese history from 1911 to the present, focusing on social and political movements.

Liberal Learning:

• GLOBAL
• SOCIAL CHANGE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES & CIVIC RESPONSIBILITIES
• WRITING INTENSIVE

 

HIS 338/Indian Civilization

(periodically)
Historical development of South Asia from the third millennium B.C.E.to the 10th century C.E.

Liberal Learning:

• GLOBAL
• SOCIAL CHANGE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES & CIVIC RESPONSIBILITIES

 

HIS 339/History of Modern India

(periodically)
Formation of modern India nation state, from the Delhi Sultanate (13th century C.E.) to the present.

Liberal Learning:

• GLOBAL; RACE & ETHNICITY
• SOCIAL CHANGE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
• SOCIAL CHANGE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES & CIVIC RESPONSIBILITIES

 

HIS 340/Southeast Asia since 1500

(periodically)
This course surveys the history of Southeast Asia from the period shortly before the arrival of Europeans to the present. The course will consider both regional and national issues.

Liberal Learning:

• GLOBAL
• SOCIAL CHANGE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES & CIVIC RESPONSIBILITIES

 

HIS 341/Islamic History from Muhammad to the Ottomans

(periodically)
Focuses on the development of social, political, and religious institutions in Islamic societies from Muhammad up to the Ottoman Empire. Special attention will be placed on understanding the development of political systems, the military-patronage state, the relationship between religion and politics, and the problem of political legitimacy in the medieval period.

Liberal Learning:

• GLOBAL
• GLOBAL; RACE & ETHNICITY
• SOCIAL CHANGE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES & CIVIC RESPONSIBILITIES

 

HIS 342/Modern Middle East

(periodically)
An introduction to the history of the modern Middle East. The first half of the course focuses on the social, religious, and political foundations of the modern states of the Middle East, the impact of the West on the development of nationalism, and the colonial experience. The second half of the course examines the post-colonial experience and the character of the modern Middle Eastern states with special attention paid to contemporary political and social issues in a local as well as international context.

Liberal Learning:

• GLOBAL
• GLOBAL; RACE & ETHNICITY
• SOCIAL CHANGE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES & CIVIC RESPONSIBILITIES

 

HIS 343/History of Central Eurasia

(periodically)
An examination of the role of the Central Asian peoples, particularly the Turks and Mongols, in the historical evolution of China, Russia, and the Islamic world from the 13th century to the present day.

 

HIS 344/Commodities, Commerce, and Exchange of Ideas in Medieval Eurasia

(periodically)
The course will focus on how, when, and why Inner Eurasia (the northern section) came to be connected with Outer Eurasia (the southern section) during the Middle Ages through expanding commercial connections which, in turn, led to intellectual, cultural, epidemiological, religious, and technological borrowings between the two regions between ca. 500-ca. 1000 CE. It will investigate the processes by which this diffusion provided the key link by way of which the two sections of Eurasia irrevocably fused together into one. The course will underscore the profound importance of central Eurasia as the principle intermediary vehicle by which the two sectors of Eurasia came to be interlinked and will explore its early history and link it to modern times.

 

HIS 347/Siberia

(periodically)
The course covers the history of Siberia from the initial human settlement of this part of Inner Eurasia in the Ice Age to the modern period. Specific emphases will be given to the diverse cultures, economies, and religions of the Native Siberian peoples and their contacts with the outside world. About half of the course will examine the fate of the indigenous inhabitants of Siberia after their incorporation into the Russian state.

Liberal Learning:

• SOCIAL CHANGE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES

 

HIS 348/Imperial Russia, 1584-1917

(periodically)
Examines the history of the Russian state as it was transformed from the European Grand Principality of Muscovy to the trans-Eurasian Russian Empire. Among the key issues considered in this course are: the territorial expansion of Russia, the development and growth of bureaucracy and autocracy, the entrenchment of serfdom as an institution, Russia’s attempts to reform and modernize, and the many fates of Russia’s national minorities.

Liberal Learning:

• GLOBAL
• SOCIAL CHANGE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES & CIVIC RESPONSIBILITIES

 

HIS 349/The Soviet Union, 1917-1991

(periodically)
This course traces the history of the Soviet Union from last years of the old tsarist regime and the developments that led to the Russian Revolution of 1917, through the Russian Civil War, the Stalin era and World War II, the Cold War, to the collapse of the U.S.S.R. in 1991.

Liberal Learning:

• GLOBAL
• SOCIAL CHANGE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES & CIVIC RESPONSIBILITIES