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History
  

  • HIST082 HM - Science and Technology in the Modern World


    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
  

  • HIST084 PZ - History of Science from Islam to


    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
  

  • HIST090 CM - Early American Capitalism


    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
  

  • HIST096 CM - The Amazon


    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
  

  • HIST098 CM - The Americas: Transnational Relations


    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
  

  • HIST101A PO - Indian Ocean World

    When Offered: Spring 2020.
    Instructor(s): A. Khazeni
    Credit: 1

    This course explores the histories of people scattered, settled, lost and found around the Indian Ocean. The course approaches the history of the Indian Ocean as a global maritime space, an economic route and cultural crossroads connecting the Middle East, Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia and Europe. Ranging from the spice trade and the culture of dhows, the times of the advent of Islam and the traditional Middle Eastern vessels that sailed with the monsoon winds, to the exploration and discovery of the “Indies” and the age of European imperialism and colonialism, the course examines the Indian Ocean world through the framework of transnational and global history. Readings include travel writing and works of literature. (Africa/African Diaspora, South Asia, and Middle East). Previously offered as HIST100AIPO.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST101ABPO - 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). Previously offered as HIST140  PO.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST101ACPO - Dark Ecologies

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2020.
    Instructor(s): A. Khazeni
    Credit: 1

    An exploration of ecological histories in the era of the Anthropocene, the geological time period over the last 200 years when human societies have altered the Earth’s processes and been the primary cause of planetary change. Beginning with the notion that ecological life on Earth is entangled and ‘dark,’ not pristine and ‘green’ nature, the course examines the mesh that interconnects environment and society in the Anthropocene. Topics range from the impact of modern science and transformations on global environments, ecological thought and perceptions, climate change, biological exchanges, and the ruins and landscapes left in their aftermaths. Readings include works by Timothy Moreton, Anna Tsing, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Amitav Ghosh, Anne Stoler, Timothy Mitchell, and a film noir series. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST101D PO - Researching the Cold War

    When Offered: Spring 2020.
    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. Previously offered as HIST110D PO.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3; Writing Intensive
  

  • HIST101E PO - Science and Empire

    When Offered: Fall 2021.
    Instructor(s): P. Chu
    Credit: 1

    This seminar explores connections between the history of science and European colonial expansion during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. How did European colonial expansion aid the development of scientific knowledge and vice versa? What roles did colonial places and peoples play in the development of European science? We examine the history of natural history, medicine, and geography and the evolution of such concepts as nature, race, and climate. We also gain practice in conceptualizing, researching, writing, and revising a substantial research essay based on primary historical sources. Previously offered as HIST110E PO.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3; Writing Intensive
  

  • HIST101F PO - Food and the Environment in Asia and the Pacific

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2018.
    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. Previously offered as HIST110F PO.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST101H PO - Research Topics in American History, 1500-1900

    When Offered: Last 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) Previously offered as HIST110H PO.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST101HAPO - History/Biography/Autobiography

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2017.
    Instructor(s): H. Wall
    Credit: 1

    Study of American history using biographies, autobiographies and biographical fiction. Accounts of individual lives used to explore lives of “ordinary” Americans, as well as prominent social and political issues. Topics include Vietnam War; civil rights movement; political and social dissent; industrialization; ethnic, racial, religious and gender conflicts; slavery; continental expansion; and creation of the American republic. (United States) Previously offered as HIST100K PO.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST101I PO - Cities & Travelers in Asia, 1600-2000

    When Offered: One-time only; spring 2020.
    Instructor(s): J. Herr
    Credit: 1

    This is a research seminar focused on issues in urban history in East and Southeast Asia, c. 1600-present, with a special focus on what we can learn about cities through travel accounts. Students will learn to design and execute a research project; develop research skills; reflect on methodological issues; practice analytical writing; and communicate results. Capacity in Asian languages is not prerequisite; the course will appeal primarily to students with interests in history, Asian studies, and urban studies, but all students are welcome.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST101J 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) Previously offered as HIST110J PO.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST101K PO - Politics of Honor in Ancient Greece

    When Offered: Spring 2020.
    Instructor(s): B. Keim
    Credit: 1

    This research seminar critically engages with debates about the nature and negotiation of honor in ancient Greece. Over the centuries from Achilles to Alexander diverse forms of honor served as the foundation of every identity and the currency of every relationship. Honor shaped the institutional skeleton and enlivened the ideological lifeblood that sustained the Greek body politic. As we converse with Homeric heroes and tragic heroines, famous philosophers and everyday Athenians, we will ponder together, “What is honor, and (why) does it matter?” All readings (e.g. from Homer’s Iliad, Aeschylus’ Oresteia, Sophocles’ Antigone, Herodotus’ Histories) will be in English translations. Assignments will include two in-class presentations and three writing assignments: a book review, a shorter essay on a common reading, and a significant final research paper on a topic developed by each student. Letter grade only. (Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean). Letter grade only. Previously offered as HIST110K PO.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3; Writing Intensive
  

  • HIST101L PO - US Labor and Working-Class History

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2017.
    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) Previously offered as HIST110L PO.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST101M PO - Introduction to Digital Humanities: Women and Politics in Latin America

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): A. Mayes
    Credit: 1

    This class uses digital methodologies to examine women’s movements and women’s political participation in Latin America and the Caribbean from the nineteenth century until the present. In this class, we will receive training in and we will use digital humanities tools such as Omeka, Voyant Tools, TimelineJS, MyHistro, among others, to curate digital exhibitions about themes, people, and events covered in the course. At the end of the class, students will produce a digital exhibition and a research paper based on their digital work. Previously offered as HIST160  PO.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST101Q PO - Writing Stories about the Bodies in East Asia

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): A. Chin
    Credit: 1

    Through studying cases from different parts of East Asia of how individuals’ bodies and sexualities are subject to cultural norms, state surveillance, commercialization andmedical intervention, this course engages students in critical reflections on how human bodies have been perceived and represented in modern history. We explore the themes of gender bending, sex work, plastic surgeries, disabilities, illness and death and investigate the multiple ways in which East Asian societies construct and communicate the desirable and healthy body. By looking at historical and cross-cultural examples, students will be confronted with the realities of sexual and body diversity and discrimination. We will also explore the socio-cultural mechanisms that shape our individual and collective notions of identity. The course will address issues through various forms of texts, visual images, memoirs, documentaries, letters and other writings, as well as secondary scholarly and journalistic works. The students will be required to write a 10-15 page research paper based on primary sources.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3; Speaking Intensive; Writing Intensive
  

  • HIST101S CH - Latinx Oral Histories (CP)

    When Offered: Spring 2021.
    Instructor(s): T. Summers Sandoval
    Credit: 1

    Introduces students to community history in the field Chicanx/Latinx Studies through the theory, ethics, and practice of oral history. Together we read and discuss foundational texts in the field as we learn how to conduct, preserve, and make use of oral historical research. In collaboration with each other and community partners, students will record and archive oral histories based in surrounding Latinx communities and build a public archive for future generations to access knowledge of the past. The class culminates in a research project making use of the generated sources. Letter grade only. May be repeated once for credit. Previously offered as HIST110S CH.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST101T CH - Latinifornia

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2020.
    Instructor(s): T. Summers Sandoval
    Credit: 1

    This seminar provides a broad introduction to California history through an examination of the experiences of Latinx Americans. Beginning with the Spanish and Mexican periods and stretching to the recent past, readings connect students to research in social, political, and cultural histories exploring issues such as colonization, migration, labor, war, urbanization, and movement-making. Students use this knowledge to design and implement a research project based on archival sources and in conversation with the larger field. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST101U 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. Previously offered as HIST110  PO.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3; Writing Intensive
  

  • HIST101V PO - Gender, Sexuality and Feminisms in Modern East Asia

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2017.
    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) Previously offered as HIST110V PO.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3; Speaking Intensive; Writing Intensive
  

  • HIST101W PO - Heresy and Church

    When Offered: Spring 2021.
    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. Previously offered as HIST110WHPO.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3; Writing Intensive
  

  • HIST101X PO - Supernatural History: Science, Religion, and American Culture

    When Offered: Spring 2022
    Instructor(s): S. Reidy
    Credit: 1

    We live in a strange world, and for centuries Americans have used science and religion to make sense of this world. This course will analyze the intertwined history of science and religion in America, and the ways that people in the past understood new phenomena, from fossils in the ground to things that go bump in the night.In the process, students develop their skills as historians as we practice researching and writing about events that challenge us to see the past in a new light.
  

  • HIST103A CM - From Village to Empire: The History of the Roman Republic, 750-44 BCE


    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
  

  • HIST103B CM - Governing Rome: The History of the Roman Empire: 44 BCE - 337 CE


    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
  

  • HIST104 CM - Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages


    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
  

  • HIST105 PO - Achilles to Alexander

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2021.
    Instructor(s): B. Keim
    Credit: 1

    This course explores the history of ancient Greece, from the wrath of Achilles to the campaigns of Alexander the Great, from the archaic world of Odysseus to the democratic splendors of Periclean Athens (ca. 1200 – 323 B.C.E.) There will be a strong emphasis on critical engagement with the entire range of primary sources – including the Homeric epics, the histories of Herodotus and Thucydides, and the material and archaeological remains – and on the enduring historical, political and cultural legacies of ancient Greece. Letter grade only. (Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean) Previously offered as HIST101  PO.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  

  • HIST107 CM - Reading Ancient and Medieval Historians


    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
  

  • HIST107 SC - Dante and the Medieval World


    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
  

  • HIST108 CM - Age of Cicero


    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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  
  
  

  • HIST112 PZ - Energy and Humanity: Past, Present, Future


    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
  

  • HIST113 CM - United States Environmental 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
  

  • HIST113 PO - Medieval Spain and the Idea of ‘Convivencia’

    When Offered: Fall 2021.
    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 HIST118  PO.
    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 CM - Race/Racism in Colonial Americas


    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
  

  • HIST114 PO - Earliest Christian Views of Islam

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

    The “rise of Islam” is associated with a century-long expansion of political control over the eastern, southern, and western shores of the Mediterranean, areas that had been under Christian control of one sort or another. How Christian commentators came to terms with this remarkable religio-political transformation of their world is the subject of this research seminar. The first half of the course will be dedicated to a common set of readings and common assignments. The second half will feature individual research projects related to the subject of the course. Letter grade only. Previously offered as HIST101CVPO.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3; Writing Intensive
  

  • HIST115 PO - Early Christian Martyrdom

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2020.
    Instructor(s): K. Wolf
    Credit: 1

    A historiographical seminar focused on martyrdom in the Christian tradition and especially how modern scholars have tried to explain it. In this course students will not only learn about this quintessential form of Christian sanctity, but will gain a deeper appreciation for the strategies that scholars have employed to articulate, position, and “prove” their wide-ranging theses 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
  

  • HIST116 CM - Slavery: A World 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
  

  • 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 - Native American History

    When Offered: Fall 2021.
    Instructor(s): S. Reidy
    Credit: 1

    A seminar on the history of Native American communities, from the peopling of North America to the struggle for Standing Rock. Focuses on the survival and adaptation of indigenous people faced with European empires and settler colonialism. Exposes students to historical methods through a wide range of primary and secondary sources, including art, literature, and scholarship produced by Native intellectuals. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST119 CM - Women and Politics in America


    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; Analyzing Difference
  

  • HIST120 CM - Native American 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; Analyzing Difference
  

  • 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: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2019.
    Instructor(s): H. Wall
    Credit: 1

    History of early North America from sixteenth century to late eighteenth century. Emphasis on social and cultural histories of diverse peoples and nations, cultural conflicts and exchanges, Native American histories, development of different forms of enslavement throughout early America, and the formation of colonial, racial, and national identities. Letter grade only.
    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
    Credit: 1

    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: One-time only; 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


    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: 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: Spring 2020.
    Instructor(s): T. Summers Sandoval
    Credit: 1

    This advanced reading seminar explores race, labor, and immigration in the United States through histories of coercion, containment, detention, and imprisonment. Through scholarly readings and films students will collaboratively analyze the intersections of African American, Native American, Asian American, and Latinx experiences and their convergence in the rise of the carceral state. 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 CM - LGBTQ History of the U.S.


    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; Analyzing Difference
  

  • 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: Last 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.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3; Speaking Intensive
  

  • HIST130 CH - Mexico-United States Border: Diaspora, Exiles, and Refugees (CP)

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2015.
    Instructor(s): M. Tinker Salas
    Credit: 1

    This class is a community engagement course that focuses on the U.S.-Mexico Border, paying specific attention to Haitian and other immigrant groups residing on both of sides of the border. Students will examine the historical formation of the U.S.-Mexico Border and its contemporary political economy. Students will be prepared to conduct research among and will be involved in a community engagement project focusing on immigration policy regarding Haitians and other immigrants currently residing in San Diego/Tijuana. Previously offered as HIST100N CH. 
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3; Analyzing Difference; Speaking Intensive; Writing 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 PO - Political Protest and Social Movements in Latin America

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2016.
    Instructor(s): M. Tinker Salas
    Credit: 1

    The political landscape of Latin America has changed dramatically since the 1980s, when neo-liberal policy predominated. The backlash to these policies has transformed the political landscape in most countries where the rise of mass movements and popular discontent has produced the election of reformers, progressives and even socialists. The seminar seeks to contextualize the emergence of new social and political movements throughout Latin America. (Latin American and Caribbean History) Previously offered as HIST100D PO.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST132 PZ - Marx in Context


    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
  

  • HIST133 AF - Slavery and Freedom in the New World

    When Offered: 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) Previously offered as HIST143  AF.
    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


    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 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 PO - European Diasporas in the Americas

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2021.
    Instructor(s): A. Mayes
    This research-based seminar considers the enduring presence of people of European descent in the Americas from the fifteenth century to the present. Focusing particularly on the arrival of European economic migrants to the largest settler-republics in the Americas, Canada, the U.S., Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina, and Brazil, this class takes an inter-disciplinary approach in its study of European diasporas. Through close readings of key works in historical, sociological, anthropological, and political analyses of whiteness/whitening, settler colonialism/republicanism, racial formation, and critical race theory, this class examines the development of European diasporas in the Americas as products of conquest, settler colonialism, trans-Atlantic slavery, and the Enlightenment; the uses and consequences of whiteness and whitening ideologies; and the political uses of whiteness and its consequences in public policy. Letter grade only.
    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


    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
  

  • HIST136 PO - Afro-Latin American (CP)

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2019.
    Instructor(s): A. Mayes
    Credit: 1

    This class examines the history of socio-cultural anthropology and contemporary anthropology regarding African-descended peoples, social movements, and communities in Latin America and the Caribbean in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. One goal is to probe the continued relevance of analytical frameworks such as creolization, transculturation, acculturation, and Black diaspora studies. This class is a Community Partnership course for which students are required to either a) work with a community partner through the semester or b) conduct research and participate in a service opportunity during the spring break. Previously offered as HIST145  PO.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3; Writing Intensive; Analyzing Difference
  
  

  • 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 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 AF - Women: Power, Majesty, Slavery

    When Offered: Spring 2021.
    Instructor(s): M. O. Traore
    Credit: 1

    The course explores the power, the majesty, and the social suffering of women within the context of the pre-colonial, cross-cultural encounters between Africa, the Mediterranean world, and Europe. The course centers on the trans-Saharan and trans-Atlantic slave trades. It analyzes women’s political, social, and economic trajectories: as queens, merchants, diplomats, influential power brokers, and slaves.Letter grade only. Previously offered as HIST146  AF.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3; Analyzing Difference
  

  • HIST140 CM - Gender and Revolution in Europe, 1500-1900


    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
  

  • HIST141 SC - Working People in the Americas: Race, Labor, and Organizing


    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
  

  • HIST142 PO - Ocean: The Sea Through Time

    When Offered: Fall 2019.
    Instructor(s): A. Khazeni
    Credit: 1

    The deep history of the oceans of the Earth, tracing the histories of the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans over geologic time. Beginning with the origins of life in the ocean over 3 billion years ago and the evolution of ancient seas and marine ecosystems, the course explores oceanic histories during the age of the Anthropocene, the time period in which humans have altered the Earth’s processes and been the primary cause of planetary change. Readings of works across the sciences and the humanities by Charles Darwin, Jules Verne, Rachel Carson, and Amitav Ghosh, among others. Letter grade only.
    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 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
  

  • HIST144 CM - Reagan’s America: The Politics and Culture of the 1980’s


    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
 

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