HIST 288-01 (25-SP): American Legal History - Deisinger

(0.25 to one course.)

HIST 260-01 (25-SP): The Historian's Craft - Deisinger

Created for sophomore History majors and minors, the Historian's Craft will provide an introduction to the ways in which historians conceptualize the past, conduct research in primary sources, and write well, through the study of good historical prose. (One course).

HIST 220-01 (25-SP): Modern Global History - de Farias

This course will examine modern global history (1450 to the present). We will travel through a great deal of space (the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa) and time (over 500 years), so in order to better comprehend the different historical eras and places, we will organize the course around important themes rather than adhering to a strictly chronological analysis. These themes include: the creation of an Atlantic World, colonization, slavery, revolutions, political ideologies, religious upheavals, independence, modernization, decolonization, and artistic movements. (One course).

HIST 112-01 (25-SP): Black America: A History - de Farias

This course will examine the history of Black America from 1865 to 2000. It is organized around important themes in African American history, including the legacies of slavery, reconstruction, the ideology of racism, the Harlem Renaissance, Radical Black Intellectuals, the Civil Rights Movement, and Black Feminism. (One course.)

HIST 111-01 (25-SP): U.S. History: 1865-Present - Deisinger

This course traces the history of the United States from Reconstruction to the Post-Cold War period. Themes that this course analyzes include: the rise of the New South and Jim Crow, the expansion of the West and Native nations, industrialization and immigration, the Gilded Age and the Great Depression, the World Wars, the Cold War, and the Civil Rights movement. (One course.)

HIST 221-01 (24-FA): World History of Food - de Farias

The aim of this course is to analyze the complex role(s) of food in societies. We will use food as a lense to study world history. In particular, we are interested in exploring how food helps one to further elucidate questions of race, politics, gender, social inequality, nationalism, empires, and globalization. (One course).

HIST 204-01 (24-FA): Radical Thought: Latin America - de Farias

This course will focus on Latin America's dissenting voices in literature, history, politics, philosophy, and the arts. This is a history course; however, given the nature of the material, we will adopt an interdisciplinary approach in this class. Some of the topics and names we will discuss include: José Marti and anti-imperialism, literature and protest, socialism, and radical politics in Brazil, art and revolution in Mexico, José Carlos Mariátegui in Peru and Marxism in Latin America. Radical Feminism, Che Guevara and the export of revolution, and the Pink Tide. We will analyze these and other alternative political projects formulated by intellectuals and activists in order to evaluate their attempt to eliminate social, racial, and gender inequalities in Latin America. (One course).

HIST 120-01 (24-FA): Introduction to Latin America - de Farias

(Cross-listed with LAST 120) Using an interdisciplinary approach, this course will present historical and culturally diverse materials. Major themes we will study include: cultural encounters, political and religious conquests, race as a social and historical category, decolonization, the creation of new nation states, economic inequality, gender relations, political and cultural revolutions, military dictatorship and, finally, the return to democracy. A historical framework will structure and inform our study of Latin America. (One course).