History

Programs

Courses

AAH 1101: His West Art:Ancient-Med

Program
Credits 3

Art & architecture in Europe, the Mediterranean (esp. Greece & Rome, ) & the Middle East in prehistoric, ancient, & medieval periods, with introduction to issues & themes of art history.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Effective Term
200220

AAH 1102: His West Art:Renaiss - Cont

Program
Credits 3

The history of the visual arts in the West from the Early Renaissance to the present.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Effective Term
202220

AAH 1903: Internship Elective

Program
Credits 3

An internship in an elective area of concentration.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Summer 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024
Effective Term
200630

AAH 2000: Ancient Art

Program
Credits 3

The artistic contributions of the ancient societies of Egypt, the Aegean, Greece and Rome, placed within appropriate cultural contexts.

Last Offered
Spring 2023, Fall 2020, Spring 2018, Spring 2017
Effective Term
199920

AAH 2001: Medieval Art

Program
Credits 3

European & Mediterranean art & architecture from the late Roman Empire to the 14th c. with emphasis on the social, religious & political contexts of visual production.

Last Offered
Fall 2022, Fall 2019, Spring 2017, Spring 2016
Effective Term
199930

AAH 2002: Early Renaissance Art in Italy

Program
Credits 3

Italian art & architecture from 1300-1480, investigation of the political, religious & social contexts of the visual productions of artists such as Giotto, Donatello, Masaccio, Mantegna & Botticelli.

Last Offered
Fall 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2019, Spring 2017
Effective Term
200730

AAH 2003: Age of Rembrandt & Bernini

Program
Credits 3

Major works of European painting, sculpture, and architecture from the seventeenth through mid-eighteenth centuries. Special emphasis on how historical events affected the production of artistic monuments.

Last Offered
Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Fall 2020, Fall 2015
Effective Term
199920

AAH 2004: Modern Art

Program
Credits 3

An examination of the visual arts since 1900 that emphasizes their historical roots and present social significance.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Effective Term
199920

AAH 2006: Visual Arts in the US

Program
Credits 3

A survey of art from the colonial and revolutionary periods through the twentieth-first century. This course explores American artists, stylistics movements, and traditions of art production. It likewise examines prominent cultural moments related to the exhibition and display of art.

Last Offered
Spring 2005, Summer 2004, Spring 2003, Spring 2002

AAH 2009: Contemporary Art

Program
Credits 3

Artistic movements and artists around the world from the 1960s to the present; Pop Art, Minimalism, Neo- expressionism, Arte Povera, Graffitti Art, and Performance Art, from Warhol to Wyeth to Haring and Koons.

Last Offered
Spring 2025, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Spring 2022
Effective Term
200320

AAH 2012: High Renaissance Art in Italy

Program
Credits 3

Italian art & architecture from 1480 to 1550. Investigation of stylistic, political & social contexts of art. The idea of Mannerism & artists such as Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael & Titian.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2020
Effective Term
201330

AAH 3001: Women in Art

Program
Credits 3

Themes and images of women in the visual arts as an expression of the needs, desires and attitudes of society; and a study of women artists from ancient times to the present, with regard to how being female may, or may not, have affected their work.

Last Offered
Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022
Effective Term
199920

AAH 3002: Art of Philadelphia

Program
Credits 3

Philadelphia's unique contribution to American painting, sculpture, and architecture, from the early Swedish and Welsh settlers of the Delaware Valley, to Andrew Wyeth and Robert Venturi.

Last Offered
Fall 2024, Fall 2021, Summer 2020, Spring 2020
Effective Term
199920

AAH 3003: Romantic to Post-Impress

Program
Credits 3

Nineteenth century painting and sculpture in Europe and America, focusing on Cezanne, Courbet, Delacroix, Goya, Eakins, Homer, Manet, Monet, Rodin and West.

Last Offered
Spring 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2018, Fall 2014
Effective Term
199930

AAH 3004: Art and Activism

Program
Credits 3

What role does art play in social change? How do artists participate in political movements? This course focuses on the intersection of art and activism, considering artworks, exhibitions, museums, and public spaces as sites of political speech.

Effective Term
202620

AAH 3005: Gender Sexuality Visl Culture

Program
Credits 3

Construction of gender and sexuality as visualized through art and various forms of visual culture. Topics include the gaze, feminist art, gendered construction of fashion, queer identities and art, and bodies and censorship.

Last Offered
Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2018, Fall 2016
Effective Term
201710

AAH 3006: History of Photography

Program
Credits 3

History of photographic styles and techniques from 1826-Present. Emphasis on the relation of photography to capitalism, colonialism, racism, feminism, and gender identities in contemporary culture.

Last Offered
Spring 2021
Effective Term
202030

AAH 3007: The Art of Ireland

Program
Credits 3

The visual arts in Ireland concentrating on the Golden Age from the 5th to the 9th Century: architecture of the early monastic settlements, manuscript illumination and its influence, and the cultural impact of the Irish forms of monasticism.

Last Offered
Spring 2025, Fall 2023, Fall 2021, Spring 2020
Effective Term
199920

AAH 3009: Topics in Art History

Program
Credits 3

Selected themes or periods in the history of art examined in depth.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Effective Term
200530

AAH 3011: History of the Art Market

Program
Credits 3

A survey of the history of the art market from the 1600s to today, with an emphasis on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, exploring the economic and political forces shaping various markets for the exchange of artworks.

Effective Term
202620

AAH 4010: Theories & Methods of Art Hist

Program
Credits 3

An introduction to the theories and methods of the discipline of Art History, such as feminism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, deconstruction, post-colonialism, and postmodernism. Prerequisite: At least one prior Art History course. (AAH 1001 to AAH 3801) or permission of the Instructor.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Effective Term
202520

AAH 5010: Senior Research Seminar

Program
Credits 3

Art History capstone writing and research seminar, which builds on AAH-4010 Interpreting Art. Students practice advanced art historical research and write culminating research project.

Prerequisites

AAH 4010 :D-

Prerequisite Courses
Last Offered
Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2020
Effective Term
201710

AAH 5515: Independent Research

Program
Credits 3

An intensive research project under individual direction. Permission of chairperson required.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Effective Term
200220

HIS 1060: Topics in Religion & Society

Program
Credits 3

Selected core courses exploring religion in different eras with emphasis on cross cultural interaction.

Last Offered
Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Effective Term
202430

HIS 1065: Topics Nature, Environ & Tech

Program
Credits 3

Selected core courses exploring relationship between environmental and technological change in different eras and societies.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Effective Term
202430

HIS 1075: Topics in Race & Gender

Program
Credits 3

Selected core courses exploring issues of race and/or gender in different eras.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Summer 2023
Effective Term
201420

HIS 1150: Topics in Atlantic World

Program
Credits 3

This course will trace the formation of diverse societies, culture, politics, and interactions in the Atlantic basin beginning in the 15th century Primary source material will be analyzed.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Summer 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024
Effective Term
202430

HIS 1155: Topics in America & the World

Program
Credits 3

Selected core courses offering transnational perspectives on the development of American society.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Summer 2024
Effective Term
202430

HIS 1165: Topics Global Perspectives

Program
Credits 3

Selected core courses that take a global or comparative approach to major issues.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Summer 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024
Effective Term
202430

HIS 1250: Top in Ancient Civilizations

Program
Credits 3

Selected core courses on different aspects of ancient world, its classical origins, the influence of Christianity upon societies the development of its institutions and culture, and its spread to include almost the entire European continent.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Summer 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024
Effective Term
202430

HIS 2000: Investigating U.S. History I

Program
Credits 3

In-depth study of American history from the pre-Columbian period to the Civil War and Reconstruction, with a particular emphasis on engaging historical problems as a process of inquiry and interpretation. Designed especially for history majors and future teachers, but open to all students.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Effective Term
200130

HIS 2001: Investigating US History II

Program
Credits 3

In-depth study of American history from the end of Reconstruction to the present, with a particular emphasis on engaging historical problems as a process of inquiry and interpretation. Designed especially for history majors and future teachers, but open to all students.

Last Offered
Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022
Effective Term
200220

HIS 2002: Historian's Craft

Program
Credits 3

Learn how to think and research as a historian. Apply historical methods, analyze primary sources, develop independent research, and engage in professional development. This course is geared towards current and prospective History majors.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 1995
Effective Term
202530

HIS 2151: Colonial America

Program
Credits 3

The political, economic, social, and intellectual life of the American colonies and the clash of racial and ethnic groups in America to 1763.

Last Offered
Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2019
Effective Term
199520

HIS 2161: Revolutionary & Fed Amer

Program
Credits 3

The colonial resistance to Great Britain; the making of the Constitution; and the continuing struggle, to 1810, to define the meaning of the Revolution.

Last Offered
Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2020
Effective Term
199830

HIS 2181: Civil War & Reconstruct

Program
Credits 3

A study of the causes of a war in which Americans fought Americans; the war's evolving nature and eventual outcome; the fight over the meaning and the extent of reconstruction; and the long term political, economic, and social consequences of the war and the end of slavery.

Last Offered
Spring 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2020, Spring 2019
Effective Term
199830

HIS 2201: United States 1914-1945

Program
Credits 3

Major problems and domestic developments in the United States in World War I, the 1920s, the Great Depression and World War II.

Last Offered
Fall 2023, Fall 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2017
Effective Term
199830

HIS 2202: United States since 1945

Program
Credits 3

Major problems and domestic developments in the United States since 1945: reconversion, Cold War, the """Good Society"""" of the 1950s

Last Offered
Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Summer 2012, Summer 2011
Effective Term
199830

HIS 2251: U. S. Foreign Rel 1776-1920

Program
Credits 3

The completion of independence, hemispheric diplomacy, expansion, Civil War, and imperialism.

Last Offered
Spring 2013, Spring 2011, Spring 2009, Fall 2007
Effective Term
202330

HIS 2252: U.S. For Rel 1920 - Present

Program
Credits 3

Diplomatic history from World War I to the present, including involvement in European and Asian struggles, cooperation in international organizations.

Last Offered
Spring 2022, Fall 2019, Spring 2014, Fall 2010
Effective Term
202330

HIS 2265: American Military History

Program
Credits 3

The wars of America from their European antecedents to 1900; relations between the military and society; role of the military in national development.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2024, Fall 2021, Spring 2017
Effective Term
200330

HIS 2270: History of US Supreme Court

Program
Credits 3

History of US Supreme Court. Topics include court's major decisions, historical development of the court and the court's effect on American society and politics.

Last Offered
Spring 2025, Spring 2024
Effective Term
202430

HIS 2271: US Const. & Legal History

Program
Credits 3

Major themes in American constitutional history. Role of the US Constitution and its interpretation in US political and legal history

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Fall 2024
Effective Term
202520

HIS 2274: History of American Medicine

Program
Credits 3

The evolution of American Medicine from the colonial period to the present day. Topics include the rise and fall of heroic medicine, the demise of scientific medicine, the growth of modern surgery, the evolution of medical practice.

Last Offered
Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2019
Effective Term
200330

HIS 2278: Native American History

Program
Credits 3

Study of American Indians from pre-Columbian times to the present, including land use practices, social customs, gender relations, U.S. government removal and assimilation policies, post-colonial political economy, and contemporary issues of cultural identity and sovereignty.

Last Offered
Fall 2024, Spring 2022, Fall 2018, Fall 2012
Effective Term
200330

HIS 2286: Irish-American Saga

Program
Credits 3

Pre-famine Irish emigration to North America; the famine; post-famine movement; Irish-American labor, politics, urban and suburban developments.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022
Effective Term
199720

HIS 2291: African Amer His during Slaver

Program
Credits 3

The forced migrations of Africans to the New World, the institution of slavery, and the struggle of Afro-Americans to gain equality in American society.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2020, Fall 2018
Effective Term
199620

HIS 2292: African Amer His since Emancip

Program
Credits 3

Themes of resistance and creativity with the development of the African-American communities in the era following the Civil War. Reconstruction, Northern migration, Jim Crow and segregation, and protest thought and Civil Rights.

Last Offered
Spring 2025, Spring 2019, Spring 2017, Spring 2016

HIS 2296: History of American Women

Program
Credits 3

The study of the influence of region, race, and ethnicity on gender definitions in America; and the impact of those ideas in shaping women's lives, sexuality, housework and wage labor, and access to power and politics, from the colonial period to the present.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Effective Term
200330

HIS 2310: Historic Preservation

Program
Credits 3

Introduction to history and practice of historic preservation of buildings and landscapes with focus on US. Students will learn how to research buildings, analyze law and public policy, engage with community planning and assess environmental and economic outcomes.

Effective Term
202520

HIS 2312: Histories for Sustainability

Program
Credits 3

Explores how historical thinking and knowledge are necessary to build environmental, social, and economic sustainability today. Topics include climate history, Indigenous knowledge, ?green? capitalism, Black ecologies, historical tourism, historians as activists, conservation, and gentrification.

Effective Term
202520

HIS 2322: Colonial Latin America

Program
Credits 3

Establishment and maintenance of a Hapsburg colonial state; indigenous responses to religious and secular colonization; the creation of a multicultural society from African, indigenous, and Iberian peoples from the 1580s to the 1780s.

Effective Term
202620

HIS 2323: Revolutionary Latin America

Program
Credits 3

Latin America's revolutionary century from the beginnings of political revolt in the 1780s to economic modernization in in the 1880s. Bourbon Reforms; indigenous revolts and slave rebellions; liberal revolutionary movements, political independence & economic independence.

Effective Term
202620

HIS 2324: Contemp Lat Amer History

Program
Credits 3

20th century economic inequalities, U. S. intervention and military dictatorships, cultural imperialism and immigration Communism in Latin America, human rights within a multiracial society.

Effective Term
202620

HIS 2410: Ancient Greeks and their World

Program
Credits 3

Meet the ancient Greeks and learn about how their societies evolved between the Bronze Age and the arrival of the Romans. Explore the ancient Greek world from Mycenae to Athens to Sparta to Thebes and beyond.

Effective Term
202620

HIS 2414: The Roman Empire

Program
Credits 3

Pax Romana from reforms of Augustus to the break-up of the western Empire in the fifth century A.D. Topics include provincial life, romanization of indigenous peoples, Iculture and decadence in the capital, and the rise of Christianity.

Effective Term
202620

HIS 2420: Seven Wonders of Ancient World

Program
Credits 3

Explore four different ancient societies between ca. 3000 BCE-500 CE: Egyptian, Babylonian, Greek, and Roman. Topics include archaeology, historiography, and the modern reception of the seven wonders.

Last Offered
Spring 2025
Effective Term
202520

HIS 2442: Sex & Gender Ancient World

Program
Credits 3

Social constructions gender in ancient Near East, ca. 3200-500 BCE, using artifacts and textual sources to learn how gender functioned in legal systems, religion, and family life. Topics include gender and power, women and experiences, same-sex relationships, gender ambiguity.

Effective Term
202620

HIS 2443: Cleopatra in History

Program
Credits 3

Explores the primary evidence for Cleopatra?s reign in ancient Egypt, the kingdom over which she ruled. Students will investigate Cleopatra's reception over time to compare with the image of her we have today.

Effective Term
202520

HIS 2450: Archeology: Age of Pyramids

Program
Credits 3

It is through the study of archaeological evidence that the history of ancient Egypt can be reconstructed. This course will begin with the unification of Egypt (ca. 3100 BCE) and continue to the end of the Second Intermediate Period.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Fall 2024
Effective Term
202520

HIS 2451: Archaeology/Egypt's Golden Age

Program
Credits 3

Archaeological evidence and the history of ancient Egypt. Explores emergence of the New Kingdom when the Egyptians were creating their first empire and continues to the coming of Alexander the Great.

Effective Term
202520

HIS 2520: Byzantine Civilization

Program
Credits 3

History and culture of the eastern Roman Empire from founding of Constantinople in 330 to its capture by the Ottoman Turks in 1453. The emperor's court, art, architecture, monasticism, women, the rise of Islam and the Crusades.

Effective Term
202620

HIS 2531: Robin Hood: Myth & History

Program
Credits 3

Who was Robin Hood? Was he England?s best archer, noble outcast, and friend of the downtrodden? We will trace his medieval legend through the centuries culminating in the movies and novels of today.

Effective Term
202520

HIS 2534: The Renaissance

Program
Credits 3

Cultural, political, and intellectual developments in Europe from the late-Medieval period to the Enlightenment. Focus on how the European Renaissance was mediated through material culture and technologies and problematize teleological ideas of """revolution"""" and """"reformation"""" in a global context."

Effective Term
202620

HIS 2535: The Reformation

Program
Credits 3

Catholic, Protestant, and popular reform theories and religious upheaval. 16th C. revolution with emphasis on the economic social, and political background of the crisis of feudalism and critique of the church and early modern state.

Effective Term
202620

HIS 2545: Women in Pre-Modern Europe

Program
Credits 3

What were women?s lives like in Europe before 1800 C.E.? What rights did different women have from antiquity to the French Revolution? What were most women's everyday responsibilities? What religious literary, and artistic role did they play?

Effective Term
202620

HIS 2560: The Enlightenment

Program
Credits 3

The cultural transition to modernity in 18th Century Europe. Social, cultural, and political critiques of status quo. Tension between religion and science. New perceptions of civil society, economics and crime and punishment, and art. Creation of a reading public.

Effective Term
202620

HIS 2563: Europe on Eve of World War I

Program
Credits 3

European history between unification of Germany and WWI. Politics, diplomacy, economic transformations, art, literature, and revolutionary movements will be explored.

Effective Term
202620

HIS 2565: Women in Modern Europe

Program
Credits 3

The changing roles of women in society and politics in Europe from the 18th to 20th centuries. Topics include women in politics and government; women and the economy; women and revolution; & feminism and feminist movement.

Effective Term
202620

HIS 2570: 20th Century Europe

Program
Credits 3

Social, political, and cultural history of Europe from the fin de siecle to European unification; world wars and revolution, East-West divide, consumer society and popular protest.

Effective Term
202620

HIS 2575: Europe since 1945

Program
Credits 3

Europe from the end of World War ll to the European Union; postwar reconstruction; Cold War; the growth of consumer society, the collapse of the Soviet Empire; changing conceptions of European identity.

Effective Term
202620

HIS 2602: Britain 1660-1815

Program
Credits 3

Emergence of Britain as the preeminent global capitalist economy and political power from the court of Charles ll to Britain's loss of its American colonies and its victory over revolutionary France.

Effective Term
202620

HIS 2603: Great Britain since 1815

Program
Credits 3

British politics, society and culture from the triumph of Waterloo through the world of the Beatles. Topics include industrial conflict, urban poverty and radical politics; Anglo-Irish relations, women's movements. imperialism and decolonization; & youth culture.

Effective Term
202620

HIS 2618: Topics in Irish History

Program
Credits 3

Exploration of emerging topics in field of Irish History, including but not limited to the Act of Union, the impact of the Protestant Ascendancy, and the cultural, social and political history of the modern Irish state.

Effective Term
202620

HIS 2622: History of Modern France

Program
Credits 3

Major developments, problems, and policies connected with the evolution of the French nation and its empire from 1815 to the present.

Effective Term
202620

HIS 2630: Modern Germany

Program
Credits 3

The German lands from 1800 to the present, changing conceptions of Germany and dilemmas of German history.

Effective Term
202620

HIS 2640: Russian History to 1801

Program
Credits 3

The development of Russia from the founding of Kievan Rus through the era of Ivan the Terrible to the great European power ruled by Catherine the Great. Autocracy, civil wars, peasant rebellions, and foreign invasions.

Effective Term
202620

HIS 2641: Imperial Russia, 1762-1917

Program
Credits 3

History of Imperial Russia from the reign of Catherine the Great to the fall of Nicholas ll and the Romanov dynasty. Topics include politics, culture, society, and revolutionary movements in Russia during the late 18th-early 20th centuries.

Last Offered
Fall 2024
Effective Term
202520

HIS 2642: Russia & USSR: 1917-present

Program
Credits 3

History of the Russia and the Soviet Union from the collapse of the Romanov Dynasty to the Present. Political and cultural history are explored from the Bolshevik Revolutions through the Soviet and Post-Soviet eras. Special focus on authoritarian rule.

Effective Term
202520

HIS 2643: Eastern Europe, 1945-1989

Program
Credits 3

Eastern and Central Europe from the end of World War II through the Revolutions of 1989. Focus on political, social and cultural history of the region and the nature of these states' relationship with the Soviet Union.

Last Offered
Spring 2025
Effective Term
202520

HIS 2645: Holocaust in History & Memory

Program
Credits 3

This class explores the Holocaust?s roots in antisemitism and the prewar years, details the evolution of the Final Solution, and investigates its place in memory and history.

Last Offered
Spring 2025

HIS 2701: Hist Modern Middle East

Program
Credits 3

The political, economic and social history of the Middle East with emphasis on the passing of imperial institutions and emergence of republics, trade and commerce, colonialism, and revolutionary movements.

Effective Term
202620

HIS 2720: Women in the Middle East

Program
Credits 3

Middle Eastern women from the seventh century to the present. Women's lives and experiences, their influence and contribution to the economy, politics, literature & the arts Effects of regional, ethnic, class & religious differences on women's status and activities.

Last Offered
Fall 2025
Effective Term
202620

HIS 2730: Emergence Modern Africa

Program
Credits 3

The impact of 19th century European colonialism on Africa the division of Africa into European dependencies; change and continuity in African culture; the emergence of independent African nation sates after World War ll; their difficulties and opportunities.

Effective Term
202520

HIS 2811: The US and the Asia-Pacific

Program
Credits 3

Explores the political, economic, and military interactions connecting the US, China, Japan, and southeast and east Asia across the 20th century.

Last Offered
Spring 2025

HIS 2812: History of Modern East Asia I

Program
Credits 3

East Asia region (China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong), late 19th century to mid-20th century. Topics include Sino-Japanese War, revolution in China, colonialism in Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, rise and fall Japan's empire, and Korean War.

Effective Term
202520

HIS 2813: Modern East Asia II

Program
Credits 3

East Asia region (China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong), mid-20th century to present. Topics include communist revolutions in China and Korea, occupation Japan, economic """miracles"""" in Japan

Effective Term
202520

HIS 2821: China in Ware & Rev, 1895-1949

Program
Credits 3

Survey of the first half of China's twentieth century, from 1895-1949. Topics include the revolution toppling China's last empire; China's descent into warlordism; struggles to reunify the nation; ware with Japan; and the Communist revolution of 1949.

Effective Term
202620

HIS 2830: Modern Japan

Program
Credits 3

The social and political history of modern Japan (1868-Present); its dramatic rise to world power status, the long road to WW ll, the impact of Allied Occupation; themes of cooperation and conflict in state-relations.

Effective Term
202620

HIS 2840: Cult. of East Asian Capitalism

Program
Credits 3

Thematic historical survey focusing on relationship between economic and social, cultural, and intellectual processes around the world in the last three centuries. Global scope but emphasis on historical experiences of East Asia, primarily China & Japan.

Effective Term
202620

HIS 2850: History of Modern South Asia

Program
Credits 3

History of Indian subcontinent from late Mughal period through British Empire, culminating in independence and partition in 1947. Emphasis on knowledge, power and state formation; resistance, revolution, and nationalism; gender and the role of women; and post colonial legacies.

Effective Term
202520

HIS 2852: Modern India and Pakistan

Program
Credits 3

Modern history of the Indian subcontinent from late Mughal Empire to the present. Themes include: expansion of British power, anti-colonial nationalism, birth of Indian and Pakistan, and contemporary politics, economics, and culture in the region.

Effective Term
202620

HIS 2924: Science&Society-EarlyMod World

Program
Credits 3

Development of science & consequential transformations in mechanics, anatomy, astronomy, botany and physics (1400-1700). Special attention to the social and human contexts in which science and scientific knowledge was produced.

Effective Term
202520

HIS 2931: World at War, 1939-1945

Program
Credits 3

Visions and experiences of a global war; Nazism and a culture of total war; war and civilians; racism and the Holocaust; the atomic bomb; historical commemoration and memory

Effective Term
202620

HIS 2940: The Cold War

Program
Credits 3

The origins, conduct, and outcomes of the Cold War, and analysis of evolving interpretations of this conflict and its significance.

Effective Term
202620

HIS 2950: History of Human Rights

Program
Credits 3

Survey of the history of human rights. Topics include: the intellectual origins of human rights; the United Nation's efforts to codify human rights protection after WWII; and the ongoing affronts to human rights around the world.

Last Offered
Spring 2025
Effective Term
202520

HIS 2955: Jewish History

Program
Credits 3

The Jews in relation to the larger civilizations in which they have lived; Jewish intellectual and moral contributions; Jewish history in the Christian world; the Holocaust; formation of a Jewish homeland, Israel.

Effective Term
202520

HIS 2956: Holocaust in History & Memory

Program
Credits 3

The Holocaust was a seminal event of the twentieth century. This multimedia-rich class explores the Holocaust's roots in antisemitism and the prewar years, details the evolution of the Final Solution, and investigates the developments in history and memory since.

HIS 2993: Hist Internship

Program
Credits 3

An internship in a local historical archive, museum, park, or library.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Summer 2024, Fall 2023
Effective Term
199830

HIS 2996: Hist Internship

Program
Credits 6

A more extensive internship in a local historical archive, museum, park, or library.

Last Offered
Summer 2024, Summer 2023, Summer 2022, Summer 2021
Effective Term
199830

HIS 3006: Medieval Europe 500-1500

Program
Credits 3

Evolution of European West from its classical origins. Influence of Christianity on European institutions and culture. Relations between European West and both Islam in the Near East and North Africa, and the Christian Byzantine East of Europe and Russia.

Last Offered
Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Fall 2013, Spring 2012
Effective Term
202620

HIS 3014: Alexander the Great-Cleopatra

Program
Credits 3

How the ancient Mediterranean world changed between the conquests of Alexander the Great and the death of Cleopatra VII; Hellenistic society, kings and queens, Ptolemaic Egypt, science and art, and encounters between Greeks and Romans.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Fall 2023, Spring 2021, Fall 2014
Effective Term
202420

HIS 3120: Infamous Medieval Women

Program
Credits 3

Between 500-1500 C.E. in Europe certain women were accused of poisoning, witchcraft, adultery, whoredom, and assassination of their husbands and children. Learn about these women and how the accusations relate to their roles in society.

Effective Term
202520

HIS 3242: Russia from Stalin to Putin

Program
Credits 3

Russia from the 1917 Revolution to the present; the radical transformation of a state, economy and society in revolution and civil war, the Stalin dictatorship, the trial of World War II, and the patterns of reform and continuity in the post-Stalin and post-Soviet eras.

Last Offered
Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2019, Spring 2016
Effective Term
201520

HIS 3245: Russia & E. Europe since 1989

Program
Credits 3

Examines history of the former Soviet Union and its states from 1989 to the present. Topics include 1989 revolutions; collapse of the USSR; German reunification; Yugoslav Wars; the rise of Putin; Color Revolutions; terrorism; Maidan; War in Ukraine

Effective Term
202520

HIS 3355: Cleopatra in History

Program
Credits 3

Egyptian archeological record, Greek and Roman sources, modern literature, and film to study life and legacy of Cleopatra VII (first century BCE), Queen of Egypt.

Effective Term
202330

HIS 3375: Modern Europe through Soccer

Program
Credits 3

This course explores modern Europe from 1850 to the present, using the evolution of soccer across Europe as a means to investigate politics, culture, and society across a tumultuous century and a half of European triumph and tragedy.

Effective Term
202520

HIS 3450: Crime, Power & Justice

Program
Credits 3

Critical examination of the relationships between crime, law, power and justice over time. This course focuses on the interconnected histories of issues such as crime and punishment, identity, wealth and poverty, violence and the law.

Last Offered
Spring 2025

HIS 3601: Building a Nation 1800-50

Program
Credits 3

The development of the Republic from the presidency of Jefferson through the Mexican War; revolutions in transportation and commerce, struggles of nationalism and sectionalism; issues of race and gender and the ferment of reform.

Effective Term
202620

HIS 3621: History of Philadelphia

Program
Credits 3

Investigation of the city's past and present through reading historical accounts and exploring today's city. Changes and continuity in politics, economy, and social composition from 1682 to today, esp. social structures and the changing physical environment of the city.

Effective Term
202620

HIS 3680: Artifacts in History

Program
Credits 3

Cultural history as revealed through artifacts, including everyday objects, decorative arts, and architecture; issues and controversies related to museum exhibits; the role of the internet in material cultural studies.

Effective Term
202620

HIS 3750: The Sixties

Program
Credits 3

Explores American and European 1960s social movements via essays, memoirs, films, and music. Examines the complex and fascinating social, cultural, and political history of this turbulent and important era in modern history.

Effective Term
202520

HIS 3801: History Topics Abroad

Program
Credits 1

Co-requisite 1-credit course designed to provide an embedded study-abroad experience to complement a requisite History course. Must also enroll in [3-credit course] as corequisite; Required for embedded course, [name of course, e.g., Europe since 1945]

Last Offered
Fall 2024
Effective Term
202430

HIS 4332: Modern China ll: 1949-Present

Program
Credits 3

Modern and contemporary China, from 1949 to the present. Covers the Communist revolution 1949, under the rule and leadership of Mao Zedong; post-Mao transition and liberalization; Cold War rivalries; global reintegration since the 1980s; and new geopolitical hostilities.

Last Offered
Spring 2024
Effective Term
202430

HIS 5001: Junior Research Seminar

Program
Credits 3

The junior research seminar introduces majors to research methods, sources, and historiography -- how historians have reconstructed, interpreted, and written about the past. By examining diverse interpretations and historical controversies, the seminars help students develop their abilities to critique historical arguments and develop their own arguments. The course prepares history majors for their Senior Research Methods course, HIS 5501.

Prerequisites
Last Offered
Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
Effective Term
201530

HIS 5515: Independent Research

Program
Credits 3

An intensive research project under individual direction. Written permission of chair required.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Summer 2024
Effective Term
199520