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History
  

  • HIST109 SC - The First Age of Globalization, 1492-1789


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST110 CM - Topics in Ancient History


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST110 PO - Research Seminar: Political Movements in East Asia since the 1960s

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2017.
    Instructor(s): A. Chinn
    Credit: 1

    A research seminar focuses on youth political movements in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea from 1960 to the present, including the Cultural Revolution, the 1989 Tiananmen Square Movement, the Sunflower Movement, the Umbrella Movement, Zengakuren, SEALDs, the 386 generation, the June Democracy Movement, etc. The final project is a 15-20 page research essay on one of the political movements covered in the course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST110AKPO - Gunpowder Empires: Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered fall 2016.
    Instructor(s): A. Khazeni
    Credit: 1

    The history of the interregional Islamic “gunpowder empires” of the early modern period: the Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals. Examines the ways in which Muslim empires ruled heterogeneous populations and expansive frontiers and became involved in global patterns of trade and cross-cultural exchange between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. Letter grade only. Previously offered as HIST100AKPO. (Africa/African Diaspora, South Asia, and the Middle East)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST110D PO - Researching the Cold War

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): P.Chu
    Credit: 1

    The Cold War, defined by the ideological conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, was global in scope. This seminar explores its origins and development, including superpower rivalry, the forging and fracturing of socialist alliances and competition in the Third World. Students produce an original research paper based on recently declassified materials and other primary sources. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3; Writing Intensive
  

  • HIST110E PO - The Science of Empire

    When Offered: Offered alternate years, next offered fall 2017.
    Instructor(s): P. Chu
    Credit: 1

    This seminar explores the history of science in connection with the expansion of European empires. We examine how knowledge about peoples and environments helped Europeans extend control in colonial places, and how networks of commerce, travel, and exchange shaped European science. Through reading and research, we explore histories of geography, botany, and anthropology, and the evolution of such concepts as race, ethnicity, and nature. Previously offered as HIST100S PO.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3; Writing Intensive
  

  • HIST110F PO - Eighteenth Century Online

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2013.
    Instructor(s): G. Kates
    Credit: 1.0

    Making use of digital resources in our library, such as Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Eighteenth Century Journals and Electronic Enlightenment, this research seminar will utilize recent techniques towards the production of a term paper based on primary sources. Our focus will be Great Britain, but topics ranging from the British Atlantic empire to Western Europe are welcome. Letter grade only. (Europe since the Renaissance)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST110F PO - Food and the Environment in Asia and the Pacific

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2017.
    Instructor(s): S. Yamashita
    Credit: 1

     A single question inspired this seminar: what explains the relationship of food and the environment in Asia and the Pacific over the last century (1915-2015)? Over the course of the semester, we will examine four different answers to that question. We will ask how has the definition of specific Asian cuisines shaped their relationship to the environment? Then we will turn to the creators of cuisines—chefs—and ask how have their culinary decisions affected the environment? The third section will consider the way restaurants market themselves and ask what do their representations reveal about their relationships with the environment. And the last section will focus on the important farm-to-table movement and ask how, if at all, has it changed prevailing views of food and the environment? Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST110H PO - Research Topics in American History, 1500-1900

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2017.
    Instructor(s): H. Wall
    Credit: 1

    Research seminar culminating in a research paper substantially based on primary sources dealing with any aspect of American history up to 1900. Letter grade only. (United States)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST110J PO - State, Citizen, Subject: Modern Japan

    When Offered: Each fall.
    Instructor(s): S. Yamashita
    Credit: 1

    An examination of the Pacific War, its impact and legacy. Topics include modern Japanese representations of themselves, the “other,” the past and official Japanese government descriptions of selected topics and popular reception of these formulations. Readings include relevant theoretical literature and selections from wartime and postwar school textbooks, personal correspondence, diaries, memoirs, fiction and oral history. (Asia)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST110K PO - Topics in Ancient History

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2017.
    Instructor(s): B. Keim
    Credit: 1

    This research seminar offers students the opportunity to build on their earlier ancient history coursework and engage more critically with a broad range of primary, secondary and comparative sources. All readings will be done in translation. Assignments will include in-class presentations and a research paper. Prerequisite: HIST 010 PO  or HIST 101 PO . Letter grade only. (Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean)
    This course has been revised for spring 2018  .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3; Writing Intensive
  

  • HIST110L PO - US Labor and Working-Class History

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2016.
    Instructor(s): V. Silverman
    Credit: 1

    Seminar examines the experiences of working people from the early 19th century to the present at work, at home and in politics. Introduces competing interpretations of trade-union ideology and politics, as well as working-class cultures and social experiences. Special emphasis on the roles of race and gender in the making of the American working class. (United States)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST110S CH - Latina/o Oral Histories (CP)

    When Offered: Each spring.
    Instructor(s): T. Sandoval.
    Credit: 1

    Introduces students to community history in Chicanx/Latinx Studies through the theory, ethics, and practice of oral history. In partnership with local high schools, students read and discuss foundational texts; record and archive oral histories with local Latinx communities; and build a public archive for future generations. Culminates in a research paper using these sources. Letter grade only. May be repeated twice for credit.
      This course has been revised for spring 2017.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST110U PO - Urban Spaces in East Asia

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered spring 2016.
    Instructor(s): A.Chin
    Credit: 1

    This course explores the making of space, place and geography in recent historical work. The course begins with an exploration of theoretical works that interrogate the significance of space as a critical element of social theory and historical consideration. After establishing a firm theoretical foundation, the course then proceeds through exploring questions of coloniality, civil society, activism and state space. Students will also have to do a research project about public spaces in East Asia. (Asia)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST110V PO - Gender, Sexuality and Feminisms in Modern East Asia

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered spring 2014.
    Instructor(s): A. Chin
    Credit: 1

    Research seminar focuses on primary sources that have shaped the conceptualization of gender, sexuality and feminisms in Modern China, Japan and Korea. Topics include feminist interpretations and critiques of women’s status and inequality articulated activists and theorists, gender and nationalism, “comfort women,” sex rights and queer movements. (Asia)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST110WHPO - Heresy and Church

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered spring 2017.
    Instructor(s): K. Wolf
    Credit: 1

    A research seminar focused on the history of religious dissent in Europe from the 11th through the 13th centuries, using it as a way to understand changes in medieval religiosity as well as the evolution of ecclesiastical responses to these changes. The course will culminate in students producing their own research papers on some aspect of the subject. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST110WWPO - Holy War in Early Christianity and Islam

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): K.Wolf
    Credit: 1

    A research seminar that explores the history of religiously sanctioned violence from the beginning of the Christian tradition in the 1st century through the rise and spread of Islam in the seventh century. The course will culminate with students producing their own research papers on the subject. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST111 SC - The Worlds of Niccolo Machiavelli


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  
  
  

  • HIST113 SC - Venice & the Islamic East, 1350-1750


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  

  • HIST114 SC - Renaissance Gender Slaves Heresy


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST116 SC - Baroque Civilization


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST117 CM - Race and Ethnicity in Brazil


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST117 SC - Capitalism in the Renaissance


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  

  • HIST117B SC - Contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
  

  • HIST118 PO - Medieval Spain and the Idea of ‘Convivencia’

    When Offered: Fall 2017.
    Instructor(s): K. Wolf
    Credit: 1

    It is widely appreciated that Christians, Muslims and Jews lived together (that is, experienced “convivencia”) for significant portions of medieval Spanish history and benefited materially and culturally from such proximity. Of late “convivencia” has become the focus of increased attention, as people in the post-9/11 world turn to history for signs of hope that Christians, Muslims and Jews really can get along. In this course we will take a critical and nuanced look at the idea of “convivencia” and how it relates to the historical realities of medieval Spain. Letter grade only. Previously offered as HIST100WRPO.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  

  • HIST119 PO - Earliest Christian Views of Islam

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2016.
    Instructor(s): K. Wolf
    Credit: 1

    Over the course of the century following Muhammad’s death in 632, Muslim armies dominated the eastern, southern and western shores of the Mediterranean, areas that, up until then, had been in Christian hands. How Christian commentators came to terms with this religio-political transformation of their world is the subject of this seminar. Primary sources drawn primarily from Greek, Syriac, Arabic and Latin authors will be supplemented by the works of modern scholars. Letter grade only. Previously offered as HIST100WCPO.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST121 CM - U.S. History Since 1945


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST121 PO - Early America

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2013.
    Instructor(s): H. Wall
    Credit: 1

    Social and cultural development of early American settlements from the 16th century onward. Emphasizes cross-cultural contacts and conflicts, origins and development of slavery and the development of religious, ethnic, racial, creole and colonial identities. Letter grade only. (United States)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  

  • HIST123 CM - History of the American West


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST123 PO - Frontiers/Empires in Early America

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2017.
    Instructor(s): H. Wall
    This course examines cultural exchanges, political relationships and conflicts and social development among contending groups on the North American continent, including major European colonial powers (Spanish, French, English), advancing settler societies and Indian confederacies and empires (including Iroquois, Creek and Comanche), from the Spanish conquest of Mexico to the conclusion of the U.S./Mexico War. Letter grade only. (United States)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3; Analyzing Difference
  

  • HIST124 PO - The United States in the Middle East

    When Offered: Fall 2018.
    Instructor(s): H. Rezai
    Credit: 1

    For over a century the relationship between the United States and several nations of the Middle East was defined by mutual benefit and positive collaboration, especially in the fields of science, healthcare, and education. Whereas the people of the Middle East immediately recognized European powers as colonial invaders, they viewed America in a very positive light. However, the century-long positive perceptions gave way to a more negative and hostile view of the US in the Middle East since the mid-20th century. To understand this radical shift in the relations between the US and the Middle East (including Pakistan and Afghanistan), we will study and discuss events, ideas, and doctrines that have shaped the interactions between these countries since the mid-19th century. Along the way, we will examine key issues such as America’s earliest cultural and educational engagement in the region, Cold War rivalries, oil, US military intervention in the region since the 1950s and its support of authoritarian governments, Arab Nationalisms, the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and the rise of Islamist Movements. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST125 CM - Asian American Hist:1850-Present


    Credit: 1

    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST126 PO - Revolutionary America, 1750-1800

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered spring 2016.
    Instructor(s): H. Wall
    Credit: 1

    Social and political change. The sources and effects of the Revolution; 18th-century social history; changes in political thought, society and politics in the new republic; and the emergence of a national culture. (United States)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST127 CH - American Inequality

    When Offered: Offered alternate years, next offered fall 2017.
    Instructor(s): T. Summers Sandoval
    Credit: 1

    A focused reading seminar on 20th century United States history. Students investigate racial inequity and inequality, as well as evolving efforts by communities of color to address them. Scholarly readings, films, and historical documents focus primarily on Latinx experiences but in meaningful relation to African American, Asian American, and Native American histories. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3; analyzing Difference
  

  • HIST127 HM - 20th-Century U.S. History


    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST128 HM - Immigration/Ethnicity in the US


    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST128 PO - United States Empire: 1890 to the present

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2016.
    Instructor(s): V. Silverman
    Credit: 1

    Has the United States created an “empire for liberty” as Thomas Jefferson hoped? This course provides ways to answer this question by exploring the U.S.’ dramatic leap to preeminence and the nature of its global order. It introduces students to competing interpretations of momentous events in U.S. foreign relations since the closing of the western frontier including: wars fought around the world, covert operations to control foreign governments, efforts to organize the world economy, and the spread of U.S. political and cultural power.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST129 PO - Hollywood, War, & Empire: The Historical Film

    When Offered: Spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): V. Silverman
    Credit: 1

    Film evolved at the same time as modern global empires and devastating wars. This course introduces students to the evolution of motion pictures which make claims to truth about these cataclysmic events, with an emphasis on US films and filmmakers. Beginning with silent films showing historic tableaus through the propaganda films of World War II to anti-war films of the 50s and 60s and the controversial political documentaries of today, students will consider both the history of film and the history presented by film. As a final project, students research and propose their own historical film dealing with the US role in the world. Previously offered as HIST122  PO.
    This course has been revised for spring 2018  .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3; Speaking Intensive
  

  • HIST131 HM - The Jewish Experience in America


    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST131 SC - Working People in the Americas: Race, Labor and Organizing


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
  
  

  • HIST132 PZ - Marx in Context


    Credit: 1.0

    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST132 SC - Paris, Berlin and London in 1920s


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST132E CM - European Intellectual History


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST132F CM - Russian Intellectual and Cultural History


    See the Claremont Mckenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST133 HM - Food and American Culture


    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST133 SC - Cuba and Nicaragua: Revolution


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST133A CM - Late Imperial Russia: 1861-1917


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST133B CM - Modern Russian History: 1917-Present


    Credit: 1.0

    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST134 CM - Dostoevskii’s Russia


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST134 PO - Drugs and Alcohol in Modern World

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered spring 2016.
    Instructor(s): V. Silverman
    Credit: 1

    Interpretations of social, political and economic responses around the world to alcohol and other mind-altering drugs from the rum and tobacco trades to crack and the drug wars. Topics include: substances and society, drug markets, the opium wars, prohibition, 1960s drug cultures, wars on drugs, legalization, addiction treatment and recovery. Prerequisite: any history course. (United States; Comparative/Transregional/Thematic (CTT)).
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST134 PZ - Empire and Sexuality


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  

  • HIST135 SC - The Destruction of European Jewry and German Society


    Credit: 1.0

    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  

  • HIST137 CM - Researching the Holocaust


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST137 SC - The Church of the Poor in Latin America and the Caribbean


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
  

  • HIST138 PO - Sex, Drugs, and Revolution: The Global Sixties

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered spring 2016.
    Instructor(s): S.Lemelle & V.Silverman
    Credit: 1

    Cultural, social and political upheavals shook countries around the world in the 1960s. Revolutions succeeded and failed, demonstrators marched for justice, youth around the world embraced radical politics and culture and conservatives fought back. The class is a journey through the major movements of the era from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, both in the U.S. and around the world. It starts with the civil rights movement and third world nationalism and ends with the rise of the New Right and the coups d’etat of the 1970s. It takes stops along the way to understand student radicalism, the anti-war movement, decolonization, urban rebellions, countercultures, Black power, feminism and gay liberation. The class will particularly explore the ideas that guided these movements in their political and economic contexts.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3; Analyzing Difference
  

  • HIST138 SC - Disease, Identity, and Society


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST139E CM - Culture and Society in Weimar and Nazi Germany


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST140 CM - Family, Women and Social Change in Europe: 1500-1945


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST140 PO - Empire and Colonialism in the Middle East and South Asia

    When Offered: Each spring.
    Instructor(s): A. Khazeni.
    Credit: 1

    A history of empire and imperialism in the modern Middle East, South Asia, and the Indian Ocean, examining the emergence of European colonialism in these interconnected world regions during the nineteenth century. The course explores contacts, encounters, and exchanges between cultures in an era of global transformation. (Africa/African Diaspora, South Asia, and the Middle East)
    This course has been revised for spring 2017.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST141 PO - Environmental Histories of the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2016.
    Instructor(s): A. Khazeni
    Credit: 1

    The history of changing human interactions with the natural world in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Traces how natural phenomena and resources have shaped patterns of society and the cultural meanings and perceptions attached to nature. The course considers how these human interactions and attitudes toward the natural world have altered environments and landscapes globally, and the ecological consequences of these changes in the land. Letter grade only. (Africa/African Diaspora, South Asia, and the Middle East)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST142E CM - Culture and Politics in Europe: 1880-1918


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST143 AF - Slavery and Freedom in the New World

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered fall 2015.
    Instructor(s): A. Mayes
    Credit: 1

    This is a survey course intended to cover the history of Africans and their descendants in the Americas from the epoch of the transatlantic Slave Trade until the end of the nineteenth century. The course is divided into two general sections: the slave epoch and emancipation (and its aftermath). (Africa, African Diaspora and Middle East; United States)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST143 SC - Cuba/Bolivia/Vzla: Revolution


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST143D CM - Atlantic Revolutions: 1760-1830s


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST144 SC - Haiti/Colombia/Maroons/Paramilit


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST145 PO - Afro-Latin American

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2016.
    Instructor(s): A. Mayes
    Credit: 1

    Are there Black people in Latin America? Increasingly, yes! The class combines historical and anthropological perspectives to understand the development of or denial of Black identities throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. (Africa, African Diaspora and Middle East; Latin America and the Caribbean)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST146 AF - Women and Slavery: In Africa, the Indian Ocean, and the Arab and Atlantic Worlds

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2016.
    Instructor(s): M. O. Traore
    Credit: 1

    Research on slavery has remained centered on males, even after the emergence, in the 1970s, of women’s history as a coherent field of study. This seminar intends to correct this imbalance by showing that women played crucial roles in the politics and economies of the households into which men brought them. The course illustrates the many strategies of acquiring and the complex implications of holding women as slaves in Africa, in the Indian Ocean region, and in the Arab and modern Atlantic worlds. Additionally, it focuses on women and household slavery in the more commercialized centers of these regions: southern Africa, the Swahili cities and plantations of eastern Africa, and Muslim western and North Africa. Finally, it analyzes female experiences and their strategies for surviving enslavement, slavers’ sexualization of the women they held as slaves, the subsequent gendering of women once emancipated, and the memories of racialized women and their children. (Africa/African Diaspora, South Asia, and the Middle East)
    This course has been revised for spring 2018  .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST146 CM - History of Germany 1740-present


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST147 PO - Mughal India

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered fall 2015.
    Instructor(s): A. Khazeni
    Credit: 1

    The history of the Mughal Empire of South Asia from its creation in 1526 by Central Asian warrior princes to its fall in 1858 following the Sepoy Rebellion. Explores the interactions between Muslim and Hindu societies, Indo-Persian imperial court culture, the Indian Ocean, connections between Mughal India and the early modern world and the East India Company and colonialism. (Africa/African Diaspora, South Asia, and the Middle East)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST148 PO - The Middle East in Europe and Europe in the Middle East: 1798-2017

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): H. Rezai
    Credit: 1

    In public discourse in Europe and the US, centuries of social, political, and cultural encounters between diverse Middle Eastern societies and the West are often reduced to interactions between the so-called homogenous religious culture of Islam and heterogeneous secular cultures of the West. At the same time, in some countries of the Middle East the West is reduced to its colonial past and to its military and technological superiority. The aim of this course is to examine the multiple historical aspects of encounters and exchanges between these regions since the late 18th century. Our journey will start with foundational works that mark the beginning of the era of enlightenment, which is characterized by rationalism, secularism, and individualism and which transformed Europe and the world. We will investigate how this progress, alongside the technological revolution, led to the gradual domination of the West across the globe, including in the Middle East. This course will explore a range of conceptual models to investigate how Middle Eastern intellectuals and societies have responded to colonialism, nationalism, socialism, democracy, freedom, and citizenship. Furthermore, we will examine the implications of these historical debates for countries like Sudan, Egypt, Iran, and Turkey in the present. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST148 PZ - Gender in African History


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  

  • HIST149 CM - America in Depression and War


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST149 PO - Iran and the World

    When Offered: Each spring.
    Instructor(s): A. Khazeni
    Credit: 1

    An exploration of the history of Iran and its global interactions from the times of the Persian empires and the Silk Roads to the age of empires and the coming of the 1979 Revolution. The course considers the land, language and literature of the peoples of Iran, tracing the adoption of Islam, the establishment of early modern Persianate empires, encounters with European imperialism, integration into the modern world economy and the radical political movements that culminated in the Islamic Revolution. Letter grade only. (Africa/African Diaspora, South Asia, and the Middle East)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST150 HM - Technology and Medicine


    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST150 PO - History and Historiography

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): H. Rezai
    Credit: 1

    The goal of this course is to introduce students to major theoretical approaches in the study of history. As such, we will read and discuss seminal texts and important themes that have shaped the writing of history in the 19th and 20th centuries. We will examine how historians investigate and interpret events in the past and craft history. We will pay particular attention to how scholars of history employ evidence and structure their narratives. Furthermore, we will explore how in their construction of historical narratives they borrow from other disciplines, such as philosophy, sociology, critical theory, and anthropology. Alongside our theoretical and methodological journey, we will also travel intellectually to a variety of regions like Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, investigating different historiographies to learn how scholars across regions inform each other’s works. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3; Speaking Intensive
  

  • HIST153 AF - Slave Women in Antebellum America


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST153 CM - American Religious History


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST154 CM - Gandhi’s India


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST155 CM - Utopianism in East Asia


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST158 CM - Japanese Empire


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST159I CM - Travel and Encounter in the Islamic World


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST160 PO - Women and Politics in Latin America

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2014.
    Instructor(s): A. Mayes
    Credit: 1

    This class explores the mutually constitutive nature of gender ideologies, nation-state formation and feminist movement in Latin America and the Caribbean from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries. We focus much of our attention to gender, nation, and women’s mobilization during “revolutionary” periods, defined broadly as moments of economic, political, cultural or social crises that result in substantive, in some cases radical, transformations of institutional structures and/or normative practices regarding gender roles. (Latin America and the Caribbean)
    This course has been revised for spring 2018  .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST161 CM - Modern Korean History


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST162 PO - Borders in East Asia

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): A. Chin
    Credit: 1

    In this seminar, we will read recent scholarly works on “borders” and “borderlands” in East Asia in the 20th century. Special attention is paid to the borders between China and Hong Kong, the Taiwan Straits, the Southwest regions of China, North and South Koreas, and the territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST162C CM - China: Warring States-First Emperor


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST163 CM - Modern Chinese History


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST164 CM - Mao’s China


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST165 CM - Middle East in Modern Times


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST165 PO - 20th Century China

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered fall 2015.
    Instructor(s): A. Chin
    Credit: 1

    History of China from the beginning of the 20th century, with special attention to the fall of the Qing Dynasty, warlordism, imperialism and urbanization, nation-building under the Guomindang, the Communist Party movement, the war against Japan, the civil war, the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, post-Mao economic reforms, as well as recent developments in Taiwan, Hong Kong and among overseas Chinese communities. (Asia)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
 

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