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The following courses may be taken for concentration credit. Please see the sponsoring department for the time and location of each course.

FALL 2012

HIST 0930 / HIST 1930  Cross-Disciplinary Historical Studies: Lectures

HIST0930J/CLAS0660

The World of Byzantium

Stratis Papaioannou

HIST1930I/EDUC1730

American Higher Education

Luther Spoehr

HIST1930J/ITAl1580

Word, Image and Power

Caroline Castiglione

HIST1930L/EDUC1020

History of American Education

Tracy Steffes

HIST1930Q/JUDS1981Q

History of the State of Israel

Rachel Rojanski

HIST1930R/CLAS1310

Rise and Fall of Imperial Republic

Lisa Mignone

HIST 0940 / HIST 1940 Cross-Disciplinary Historical Studies: Freshman/Sophomore Seminars

HIST0940B/EDUC0400

The Campus on Fire: American Colleges & Universities in the 1960's

Luther Spoehr

HIST0940C/ITAL0751

When Leaders Lie: Machiavelli

Caroline Castiglione

HIST0940G/JUDS0050E

From Amsterdam to Istanbul

Adam Teller

HIST 0960 / HIST 1960 Cross-Disciplinary Historical Studies: Seminars

HIST1960N/AFRI1060T

South Africa since 1990

Nancy Jacobs

HIST1960Q/JUDS1980Q

Jews and Muslims

Maud Mandel

SPRING 2013

HIST 0930 / HIST 1930  Cross-Disciplinary Historical Studies: Lectures

HIST0930C/JUDS0980X

A World Without Borders

Rachel Rojanski

HIST0930I/JUDS0640

History of the Holocaust

Maud Mandel

HIST0930K/RELS0600

Islam and Modernity

Nancy Khalek

HIST1930A/EDUC1200

History of American School Reform

Luther Spoehr

HIST1930G/AFRI1090

Black Freedom Struggle since 1945

Francoise Hamlin

HIST1930S/CLAS1320

Roman Empire and Its Impact

John Bodel

HIST1930T/EDUC1050

History of African American Education

Tracy Steffesl

HIST 0940 / HIST 1940 Cross-Disciplinary Historical Studies: Freshman/Sophomore Seminars

HIST0940A/EDUC0850

History of Intercollegiate Athletics

Luther Spoehr/Howard Chudacoff

HIST 0960 / HIST 1960 Cross-Disciplinary Historical Studies: Seminars

HIST0960C/JUDS0980V

Money, Power, Sex and Love

Adam Teller

FALL 2011

HIST 0930 / HIST 1930  Cross-Disciplinary Historical Studies: Lectures

HIST0930D/JUDS0650

History of Zionism

Maud Mandel

HIST0930C/JUDS0980X

A World Without Borders: Intro to Yiddish Language and Culture

Rachel Rojanski

HIST0930G/JUDS0990G

Difficult Relations? Judaism and Christianity from Middle Ages until Present

Adam Teller

HIST1930I/EDUC1730

American Higher Education in Historical Context

Luther Spoehr

HIST1930L/EDUC1020

The History of American Education

Tracy Steffes

HIST1930D/AMCV1611A

Making America

Richard Meckel

HIST 0940 / HIST 1940 Cross-Disciplinary Historical Studies: Freshman/Sophomore Seminars

HIST0940B/EDUC0400

The Campus on Fire: American Colleges & Universities in the 1960's

Luther Spoehr

HIST0940F/EDUC0410D

Brown v. Board of Education

Tracy Steffes

HIST0940E/AFRI0110C

Autobiography of Civil Rights Movement

Francoise Hamlin

HIST 0960 / HIST 1960 Cross-Disciplinary Historical Studies: Seminars

HIST0960F/JUDS0990H

New York, Warsaw, Tel Aviv, Buenos Aires; Transnational Jewish Culture in 20th C

Rachel Rojanski

HIST1960K/POBS1600L

The End of Empires? A Global History of Decolonization

Miguel Jeronimo

HIST1960L/POBS1600J

Conflicts, Diasporas & Diversities: Religion in Early Portuguese Empire

Maria Ana Valdez

SPRING 2012

HIST 0930 / HIST 1930  Cross-Disciplinary Historical Studies: Lectures

HIST1930G/AFRI1090

Black Freedom Struggle Since 1945

Francoise Hamlin

HIST1930A/EDUC1200

History of American School Reform

Luther Spoehr

HIST1930H/EDUC1620

Teaching Topics in American History

Luther Spoehr

HIST1930M/EDUC1050

History of African-American Education

Tracy Steffes

HIST1930C/AMCV1611Z

Century of Immigration

Richard Meckel

HIST 0960 / HIST 1960 Cross-Disciplinary Historical Studies: Seminars

HIST0960A/JUDS0980A

Memoirs and Memory

Maud Mandel

HIST0960E/JUDS0990L

Jews Between Christians and Muslims in Early Modern World

Adam Teller

HIST1960J/HMAN1970B

Knowledge, Networks and Information Economies

Harold Cook

FALL 2010

HIST 0930 / HIST 1930  Cross-Disciplinary Historical Studies: Lectures

HIST0930A/ITAL0580

Word, Image & Power in Renaissance Italy

Caroline Castiglione

HIST0930B/JUDS0610

American Jewish History

 

HIST1930B/EDUC1740

Academic Freedom on Trial: A Century of Campus Controversies

Luther Spoehr

HIST1930D/AMCV1611A

Making America: 20th C U.S. Immigrant/Ethnic Literature

Richard Meckel

HIST 0940 / HIST 1940 Cross-Disciplinary Historical Studies: Freshman/Sophomore Seminars

HIST0940B/EDUC0400

The Campus on Fire: American Colleges & Universities in the 1960's

Luther Spoehr

HIST0940C/ITAL0751

When Leaders Lie: Machiavelli in International Context

Caroline Castiglione

HIST0940D/ETHN0090A

The Border/La Frontera

Evelyn Hu-DeHart

HIST 0960 / HIST 1960 Cross-Disciplinary Historical Studies: Seminars

HIST0960B/JUDS0980U

Making Sparks Fly: Mysticism & Politics in the History of Hasidism

Adam Teller

HIST1960B/AMCV1903B

Alien-nation: Latina/o Im/migration in Comparative Perspective

Matt Garcia

HIST1960D/AFRI1060A

Africa Since 1950

Nancy Jacobs

HIST1960G/AMCV1700D

The Teen Age: Youth, Society & Culture in Early Cold War America

Richard Meckel

SPRING 2011

HIST 0930 / HIST 1930  Cross-Disciplinary Historical Studies: Lectures

HIST1930A/EDUC1200

The History of American School Reform

Luther Spoehr

HIST1930C/AMCV1611Z

The Century of Immigration

Richard Meckel

HIST 0940 / HIST 1940 Cross-Disciplinary Historical Studies: Freshman/Sophomore Seminars

HIST0940A/EDUC0850

History of Intercollegiate Athletics

Howard Chudacoff/Luther Spoehr

HIST 0960 / HIST 1960 Cross-Disciplinary Historical Studies: Seminars

HIST0960C/JUDS0980V

Money, Power, Sex & Love; The Modern Jewish Family in Europe and America

Adam Teller

HIST1960A/AFRI1060M

African Environmental History

Nancy Jacobs

HIST1960C/AMCV1904D

End of the West: The Closing of the U.S. Western Frontier

Matt Garcia

HIST1960E/POBS1600S

World & Utopia: 17th C Portuguese World

Maria Ana Valdez

HIST1960F/POBS1600Y

The Portuguese Colonial Empire in a Comparative Perspective

Miguel Bandeira Jeronimo

**Spring 2010 X-List**

INTRODUCTORY SEMINARS & LECTURE COURSES

  • Africana Studies
  • AFRI 0160 Twentieth-Century Africa 
  • AFRI 0220 Introduction to African American History from Emancipation to the Present
  • American Civilization
  • AMCV 1611A Making America: Twentieth-Century U.S. Immigrant/Ethnic Literature
  • AMCV 1611Z The Century of Immigration
  • Education
  • EDUC 1200 History of American School Reform 
  • EDUC 0410D Brown v. Board of Education
  • EDUC 0850 History of Intercollegiate Athletics (sophomore seminar)
  • Ethnic Studies
  • ETHN 0090A The Border / La Frontera 

CAPSTONE SEMINARS

  • American Civilization
  • AMCV 1903X Style and the Man: Masculinity in Fashion and U.S. History
  • Humanities
  • HMAN 1970O Testimonies as Historical Documents: Interethnic Relations at a Time of Genocide 
  • Judaic Studies
  • JUDS 1980Q Jews and Muslims 
  • Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
  • POBS 1600D Portuguese Discoveries and Early Modern Globalization

**Fall 2009 X-List**

FIRST-YEAR SEMINARS & LECTURE COURSES

  • Education
  • EDUC 0400 The Campus on Fire: American Colleges and Universities in the 1960's
  • EDUC 1020 History of American Education
  • EDUC 1740 Academic Freedom on Trial: A Century of Campus Controversies
  • Ethnic Studies
  • ETHN 1870F Eating Cultures
  • Judaic Studies
  • JUDS 0650 History of Zionism and the Birth of Israel
  • Russian
  • RUSS1050 Russian Culture: From Peter the Great to Putin

CAPSTONE SEMINARS (equal to HIST 1970-1980 series)

  • Africana Studies
  • AFRI 1060M African Environmental History
  • AFRI 1170 African American Women's History

**Spring 2009 X-List**

FIRST-YEAR SEMINARS & LECTURE COURSES

  • Africana Studies
    AFRI 0220 Introduction to African American History from Emancipation to the Present
  • American Civilization
    AMCV 1611J Sex, Love and Race, Miscegenation, Mixed Race and Interacial Relations
    AMCV 1611L The Sixties Without Apology
    AMCV 1612F Female Maladies: Women and Mental Illness
    AMCV 1700D The Teen Age: Youth, Society and Culture in Early Cold War America
  • Classics
    CLAS 0560 War and Society in the Ancient World
  • Comparative Literature
    COLT 2820Q Culture and Politics in Cuba and the Caribbean
  • Education
    EDUC 0850 History of Intercollegiate Athletics
    EDUC 1050 History of African-American Education
    EDUC 1200 History of American School Reform
    EDUC 1820 History of Print Culture in America
  • Italian Studies
    ITAL 1420 Sex and the Cities: Venice, Florence, and Rome, 1450-1800
  • Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
    POBS 1600Q Perceptions of the Other and Ethnographical Writing in Early Modern Portugal

CAPSTONE SEMINARS (equal to HIST 1970-1980 series)

  • Africana Studies
    AFRI 1606N, Gender and Power in African History
  • East Asian Studies
    EAST 1950D Crime, Justice and Punishment in Modern Japan
  • Ethnic Studies
    ETHN 1870A Ethnic Los Angeles
  • Humanities
    HMAN 1970B Clean and Modern: Meanings of Health and Hygiene in the 19th and 20th Centuries
    HMAN 1970D Prejudice in Early Modern England

**Fall 2008 X-List**

FIRST-YEAR SEMINARS & LECTURE COURSES

  • Africana Studies
    AFRI 1470 Southern African History
  • American Civilization
    AMCV 1010 Introduction to American Studies
  • Classics
    CLAS 1310 Roman History I: The Rise and Fall of an Imperial Republic
  • Comparative Literature
    COLT 1421C Subaltern Studies: History, Literature, Theory
  • East Asian Studies
    EAST 0950A Turning Japanese: Constructing Nation, Race and Culture in Modern Japan
  • Education
    EDUC 0400 The Campus on Fire: American Colleges and Universities in the 1960's
    EDUC 0410D Brown v. Board of Education
    EDUC 1020 History of American Education
    EDUC 1740 Academic Freedom on Trial: A Century of Campus Controversies
  • Italian Studies
    ITAL 0751 When Leaders Lie: Machiavelli in International Context
  • Russian
    RUSS 1050 Russian Culture: From Peter the Great to Putin

CAPSTONE SEMINARS (equal to HIST 1970-1980 series)

  • Africana Studies
    AFRI 1060A Africa Since 1950
  • Humanities
    HMAN 1970A Eating Cultures: Food and Society
    HMAN 1970F Visualizing History: The Politics of Material Culture in South Asia
    HMAN 1970K The Origins and Contours of American Nationalism, 1780-1900