Courses in History
LOWER-DIVISION
INTRODUCTORY COURSES
Courses of general interest for all students. No prerequisites. Designed to survey particular fields or themes and to introduce methods and premises of historical study. Many of these courses fulfill part of the UCI breadth requirement.
11 Introduction to Peace and Conflict (4). Examines the causes and effects of international violence, focusing on World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. Relates what is known about the dynamics of war to what is understood by conditions of peace. Required for the minor in Conflict Resolution. (VII-B)
12 Introductory Topics in History (4). Introduces methods and premises of historical study. Topics include introductions to cultural, political, economic, social, and religious history. May be repeated for credit as topics vary.
15 American Ethnic History
15A Native American History (4). Introduction to multiple topics: indigenous religious beliefs and sociopolitical organization, stereotypic "images," intermarriage, the fur trade, Native leaders, warfare, and contemporary issues. (VII-A)
15C Introduction to Asian American Studies I (4). Examines and compares the diverse experiences of major Asian American groups since the mid-nineteenth century. Topics include: origins of emigration; the formation and transformation of community; gender and family life; changing roles of Asian Americans in American society. Same as Asian American Studies 60A and Social Sciences 78A. (III, VII-A)
18A Introduction to Jewish Cultures (4). Introduction to the diversity of Jewish cultures from ancient to modern times. Surveys the Jewish experience in various societies and civilizations: ancient Mediterranean, Middle East and North Africa, Europe, and the Americas.
21 World History
21A World History: Beginnings to 1650 (4). Treats major themes of world historical development through the mid-seventeenth century, focusing on the Eurasian world, but with secondary emphasis on Africa and the Americas. (IV, VII-B)
21B World History: 1650-1870 (4). Examines three major transformations that made the world of 1870 dramatically different from that of 1650: e.g., the scientific revolution, industrialization, and the formation of modern states and nations. (IV, VII-B)
21C World History Since 1870 (4). Considers several major currents of modern history: technological change and its social effects; changes in gender relations; totalitarianism; peasant revolutions and the crisis of colonization; international migration; and ecological problems. (IV, VII-B)
36 The Formation of Ancient Greek Society. An overview of ancient Greek civilization and its interactions with other cultures of the Mediterranean world. Focuses on major institutions and cultural phenomena as seen through the study of ancient Greek literature, history, archaeology, and religion. Same as Classics 36A, B, C.
36A Early Greece (4). (IV)
36B Late Archaic and Classical Greece (4). (IV)
36C Fourth-Century and Hellenistic Greece (4). (IV)
37 The Formation of Ancient Roman Society. A survey of the principal aspects of Roman civilization from its beginnings to the so-called Fall of the Roman Empire in C.E. 476. Focuses on political history and ideology, social history, literature, art and architecture, and religion. Same as Classics 37A, B, C.
37A Origins to Roman Republic (4). (IV)
37B Roman Empire (4). (IV)
37C The Roman Legacy (4). (IV)
40 The Formation of American Society. An introduction to the social, economic, political, and cultural development of the United States from the fifteenth century to the present. Any one quarter of history 40A, 40B, or 40C satisfies the American History portion of the UC American History and Institutions requirement.
40A The Formation of American Society: 1492-1790 (4). (IV)
40B The Formation of American Society: The Nineteenth Century (4). (IV)
40C The Formation of American Society: The Twentieth Century (4). (IV)
50 Crises and Revolutions (4). Study of turning points in world history, illustrating themes and methods of historical analysis. May be taken for credit three times as topics vary. (VII-B)
60 Revolting Ideas: An Introduction to the History of Science (4). The emergence of modern science since 1500. Case studies to illuminate revolutionary change in science and the impact of science-based technology on society. History 60 and Education 130 may not both be taken for credit.
70 Problems in History. An introduction to the historical problems, the issues of interpretation, the primary sources, and the historical scholarship of the history of Asia, Europe, the U.S., Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa, as well as transregional history, with an emphasis on developing skills in historical essay-writing.
70A Problems in History: Asia (4). (IV, VII-B)
70B Problems in History: Europe (4). (IV, VII-B)
70C Problems in History: United States (4). (IV)
70D Problems in History: Latin America (4). (IV, VII-B)
70E Problems in History: Middle East and Africa (4). (IV, VII-B)
70F Problems in History: Transregional History (4). May be repeated for credit as topics vary, but may only apply once toward the History major or minor. (IV, VII-B)
UPPER-DIVISION
HISTORICAL STUDIES
Courses in which students gain experience in analysis, interpretation, and writing. No prerequisites.
100A Topics in International Conflicts (4). A study of international conflicts from military, social, economic perspectives with a focus on the preparation for and conduct of war and their consequences. May be repeated for credit as topics vary. (VII-B)
100C War and Society in the Twentieth Century (4). Examination of war, military systems, and technology and their interaction with politics, economies, societies, and cultures in the twentieth century. (VII-B)
101 History of the World Economy (4). Beginning with a discussion of different economic "worlds" of the 1400s, traces the complex processes by which these worlds began to influence each other, ending with the twentieth-century world economy. Topics include imperialism, industrial revolution, migration, slave trade. (VII-B)
102A Environmental History of the Victorian Age (4). Explores the "secret" environmental history of world agriculture, from the famous "year without summer" (1816) to the droughts that devastated Indian and Chinese peasantries at century's end. (VII-B)
102B Topics in Environmental History (4). Explores the many historical interfaces between climate change, modes of production, and culture. Topics include the environmental history of warfare, imperialism, and famine in the nineteenth century and the history of environmental thought. (VII-B)
103A Gender and Politics in the Early Modern World (4). Explores the relationship between politics and gender in a variety of societies and historical moments between 1400 and 1800. Topics include: definitions of male and female throughout the world, state formation, empire-building and marriage; religion and women's enclosure. (VII-B)
ANCIENT HISTORY
105 The Roman Empire. Creation of a bureaucratic empire; rule by gentry and officers; official culture and rise of Christianity; social conflict and political disintegration.
105A Early Roman Empire (4)
105B Later Roman Empire (4)
105C The Classical Tradition (4)
EUROPEAN HISTORY
110 Medieval Europe
110A Europe in the Early Middle Ages (4). Survey of Europe between 300 A.D. and 900 A.D. Topics include the breakup of the Roman Empire, barbarian invasions, spread of Christianity, rise of Islam, the Carolingian Empire, and the Vikings. (VII-B)
110B Europe in the Central Middle Ages (4). Survey of European history from ca. 900 to ca. 1300. Topics discussed include the growth of the economy, feudalism, the crusades, the rise of towns, the development of the church, popular heresy, and the rise of large-scale polities. (VII-B)
110C Europe in the Later Middle Ages (4). Survey of European history from ca. 1300 to ca. 1500. Topics include the Black Death, the crisis of the economy, the Hundred Years' War, peasant and urban uprisings, and the Great Schism. (VII-B)
110D Topics in Medieval Europe (4). May be repeated for credit as topics vary.
112 Early Modern Europe
112A Renaissance Europe (4). Survey of the Renaissance in Italy and northern Europe.
112B Reformation Europe (4). Survey of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe.
112C Europe of the Old Regime (4). Survey of the social, cultural, and political history of Europe from the middle of the seventeenth century to the French Revolution. (VII-B)
112D Topics in Early Modern Europe (4). Theme-based approach to the main social, political, and cultural developments in Europe between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. Topics include Renaissance humanism, Reformation and Counter-Reformation, scientific revolution, court culture and nation building, interactions with non-European peoples, and cities and commerce. May be repeated for credit as topics vary. (VII-B)
114 Topics in Modern European History (4). Course content changes with instructor. Topics include the Inquisition; science and religion in modern Europe; sex and society in modern Europe; French revolutions; culture in interwar Europe; the Holocaust; the fall of communism in Eastern Europe. May be repeated for credit as topics vary. (VII-B)
115 Survey of European History
115A Europe: 1350-1750 (4). The period 1350-1750 begins with the devastation of the Great Plague and ends with a renewed "enlightened" Europe invested in global colonial ventures. In short, an exploration of the emergence of the modern world. (VII-B)
115B Europe: 1750-1870 (4). A study of Europe from the end of the Old Regime to the beginning of World War I, with emphasis on the origins of the "modern age": the political, economic, and cultural patterns characteristic of our own society. (VII-B)
115C Europe: Twentieth Century (4). Europe from World War I to the collapse of the U.S.S.R. World War I and its impact on the modern world; rise of an international Communist movement; regimes created by Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin; World War II; the killing of Europe's Jews; Cold War and collapse of communism. (VII-B)
116 Medieval England
116A England in the Early Middle Ages (4). Survey of English history from ca. 400 to ca. 1200. Topics include the Anglo-Saxons, the Viking settlement, the Norman Conquest, the Angevin Empire, and the development of royal, legal, and administrative mechanisms. (VII-B)
116B Later Medieval England (4). Survey of English history between ca. 1200 and ca. 1500. Topics include the Magna Carta, the Barons' War, the Welsh and Scottish wars, the development of Parliament, the Hundred Years' War, and the Wars of the Roses. (VII-B)
117 Early Modern England
117A Tudor England (4). Survey of English history from the fifteenth century until the early seventeenth century. Concentrates on the formation of Tudor political, social, and economic institutions. (VII-B)
117B Stuart England (4). Survey of English history from the early-seventeenth century until the early-eighteenth century. Concentrates on the causes of the English Revolution and the Revolution itself, the Restoration, and the Protestant ascendancy. (VII-B)
118 Great Britain
118A Modern Britain: 1700 to 1850 (4). Examines the major developments in British politics, socioeconomic structure, and culture from 1700-1850. The development of the British nation-state and the fashioning of a national identity. Explores basic questions about British national identity. (VII-B)
118B Modern Britain: 1850 to 1930 (4). Examines the social, economic, and political history of Britain from 1850-1930. Post-industrialism, urbanization, population and economic change, increased political participation by working classes and women, consolidation of the empire and the breakup of the United Kingdom. (VII-B)
118C Modern Britain: 1930 to Present (4). Explores Britain from the Second World War to the resignation of Margaret Thatcher. Examines Britain's devolution from world power to member of the European Community; transition from a manufacturing to service-based economy; changing demographic and racial composition in light of decolonization. (VII-B)
120 France. Emphasis on social, economic, and cultural history of France since the Great Revolution.
120A Early Modern France: 1500-1774 (4). Formerly History 124. (VII-B)
120B The French Revolution and Napoleon: 1774-1815 (4). (VII-B)
120C France in the Nineteenth Century (4). (VII-B)
120D France in the Twentieth Century: 1914 to Present (4). (VII-B)
120E History of Paris (4). The development of Paris from the beginnings through the present, with emphasis on the last three centuries. The city is examined from the political, social, ecological, and architectural points of view as well as through the perspective of urban planning. (VII-B)
122 Germany. Political, social, and economic history from 1815 to the present.
122A Emergence of the German Nation: 1815-1890 (4). (VII-B)
122B Hitler and the Germans (4). Focuses on Hitler's rise to power and Nazi society. Examines Germany's defeat in World War I; the political and cultural experimentation of the 1920s; the causes of Hitler's success; and life in Germany under the Nazis. (VII-B)
122C World War, Cold War, and Reunification: 1939- (4). (VII-B)
123 Spain
123B Imperial Spain: 1469-1808 (4). Overview of Spanish political, social, economic, and cultural history from the reign of Ferdinand and Isabel, to the invasion of Napoleon in 1808. (VII-B)
123C Twentieth-Century Spain: 1898-Present (4). Examination of political, social, and cultural conflict under the parliamentary monarchy and the II Republic; the Spanish Civil War and the popular revolution of 1936; Spanish fascism and the Franquist dictatorship; and the transition to constitutional democracy after 1975. (VII-B)
123D Topics in Spanish History (4). Topics include Spain in the nineteenth century, the Spanish Civil War, and dictatorship and democracy in modern Spain. May be repeated for credit as topics vary. (VII-B)
124 Russia. Political and social developments from traditional Russia to the present Soviet society.
124A Imperial Russia: 1689-1905 (4). (VII-B)
124B Twentieth-Century Russia (4). (VII-B)
126 The World Wars
126A The Era of World War I: 1900-1939 (4). (VII-B)
126B The Era of World War II: 1933-45 (4). (VII-B)
126C The Cold War and After: Europe and the World, 1945-91 (4). (VII-B)
127 European Cultural and Intellectual History. Main currents of Western thought, emphasizing English, French, and German thinkers.
127A Enlightenment Europe (4). (VII-B)
127B Hegel to Nietzsche (4). (VII-B)
127C Freud to Sartre (4). (VII-B)
127D Contemporary European Thought (4)
128 European Women and Gender History
128A Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe: 1400-1700 (4). Explores what it meant to be a woman in early modern Europe. Students examine women's lives in early modern Europe while developing skills of historical interpretation. Topics include: notions of masculinity and femininity; "proto-feminism"; marriage and sexuality; female piety and witchcraft. (VII-B)
128B Sex and Society in Early Modern Europe (4). Examines the role of sexuality in early modern European society. Explores the emergence of modern notions of sexuality and their connection to European imperialism. Topics include: biological notions of sexual difference and human reproduction; marriage and family; prostitution, lesbian and transvestitism. (VII-B)
128C Topics in the History of Women in Europe (4). May be repeated for credit as topics vary. Formerly History 128. (VII-B)
JEWISH, MUSLIM, MIDDLE EAST, AND AFRICAN HISTORY
130 Jewish History
130A Jewish History, Ancient to Early Modern Times (4). The history of the Jewish people from their origins in the ancient world to the 1700s. Social, religious, and intellectual life of Jewish communities in the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe. (VII-B)
130B Modern Jewish History (4). History of the Jews in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and the United States from the early-eighteenth century to recent times. Emancipation, assimilation, religious reform, antisemitism, Zionism, socialism, the Holocaust, and modern Israel are the major themes. (VII-B)
130C Topics in Jewish History (4). May be repeated for credit as topics vary. (VII-B)
131 Topics in Islamic History (4). Examines the evolution of Islam as a religion within the social, political, and economic histories of various Muslim societies throughout its 14 centuries. Introduction to major concepts, practices, and texts of Islam, and key historical events associated with them. (VII-B)
132 Israel and Palestine (4). Origins of Zionism in the nineteenth century, Arab-Jewish conflicts in Palestine, emergence of Palestinian nationalism, the formation of the Israeli nation after 1948, and the development of the Palestinian movement. Focus on Palestinian and Israeli society and culture. (VII-B)
133A The Emergence of the Modern Middle East (4). Offers a survey of the history of the Middle East from the nineteenth century to the present time. (VII-B)
133B North Africa Since 1500: Islam and Colonialism (4). Examines the history of the Maghrib (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya) from the time of Ottoman expansion and the Sa'dian and Alawid dynasties in Morocco in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. (VII-B)
134 Africa
134A Africa: Societies and Cultures (4). Introduction to the variety of cultures, political organizations, social structures, and artistic expressions created by Africans over a broad time span. The indigenous development of African societies in distinct regions of the continent. Issues, themes, processes for understanding history of Africa. (VII-B)
134B Modern Africa (4). Explores the last 200 years of history in Africa, from the end of the Atlantic slave trade through colonization to independence. (VII-B)
134C Topics in the History of Africa (4). May be repeated for credit as topics vary. (VII-B)
134D Topics in South African History (4). Introduction to important historical events and processes in Southern Africa. Focuses on particular themes and explores how those themes change over time. Topics include: changing ideas about race, the development of class structures, identity formation, the role of gender. (VII-B)
134E History of the African Diaspora (4). Examines the causes and consequences of the multiple diasporas of African peoples since the sixteenth century in the Atlantic world, especially the Americas and Europe. Same as African American Studies 137.
HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
135 History of Science
135A The Scientific Revolution (4). An examination of early modern European science from 1500 to 1700. Includes readings from central figures (Copernicus, Harvey, Bacon, Descartes, et al.); themes include the impact of printing, humanism, patronage, technology, and discussion of the term "revolution" in this context.
135B Navigation (4). Explores the basics of oceanography, the evolution of ships and sailing in the ancient Mediterranean world, the North Atlantic, Polynesia, the South China Sea, the Arab Indian Ocean, the global oceanic world, and the discovery of celestial and terrestrial navigation.
135C Exploring the Cosmos (4). After briefly considering the invention of astronomy in antiquity and the Copernican revolution, examines the development of solar science; the triumph of the view of the expanding universe; and a medley of themes in post-1945 astrophysics and cosmology.
135D History of Cartography (4). Examines how technology has assisted in creating visual representations of place, space, and time beginning in ancient Babylonia to the present day.
135E Topics in the History of Science and Technology (4). May be repeated for credit as topics vary.
135F History of Technology (4). Explores the historical and contemporary products and processes that have improved and abused the forces of nature. Examines the earliest technicians, the transmission of technological ideas and practices, and the relationship between society and technological change.
HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE
136 History of Medicine and Health Care
136A The Making of Modern Medicine (4). Examination of medical care in Britain from the 1660 plague to establishment of the National Health Service Act in 1946. Structured around meanings of health and disease, the organization of medicine, and the politics of health care.
136B Race and Medicine (4). Examines racial politics in the development of American medicine from 1870 to 1990s. Racial subordination and the American Medical Association, discrimination in medical education and black medical schools, the National Medical Association, black doctors and war, health care inequities and AIDS.
136C Health Care in the United States Since 1900 (4). Explores the rise of health care since 1900. Themes include the politics of professional authority, the political economy of health care, and the cultural meaning of disease and illness in society.
136D Topics in the History of Medicine and Health Care (4). May be repeated for credit as topics vary.
136E History of Epidemics and Infectious Disease (4). Examines how epidemics tax political, economic, and spiritual resources and challenge prevailing medical theories and practices. Looks at how society has responded to epidemics and disease throughout history, beginning in antiquity and ending in the present.
139 History and Prose Composition (4). Requires at least 4,000 words of assigned composition based upon historical works. History majors are given admission priority. Prerequisites: satisfaction of the lower-division writing requirement; junior standing or consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit as topics vary.
AMERICAN HISTORY
140 The Development of the American Nation. Growth of a distinctively American society out of the colonial heritage, with emphasis on social and economic bases of culture and politics, sectionalism, industrialization, and the United States as a world power.
140A Early America: 1492-1740 (4). Examines the history of the land that became the first 13 states of the United States, from early attempts at exploration and discovery to the economic growth and demographic heterogeneity that marked the white settlements of the early 1700s.
140B Revolutionary America: 1740-1790 (4). An exploration of why 13 continental colonies, whose commercial and cultural connections with Britain far exceed their interaction with one another, resisted imperial reform after 1763 to the point of war in 1775 and independence the following year.
140C Coming of the Civil War (4). Investigates the social, political, economic, cultural, and constitutional changes that transformed antebellum America and culminated in civil war.
140D Civil War and Reconstruction (4). Focuses upon the social, economic, political, cultural, and constitutional changes that transformed the United States during the Civil War era.
140F The United States in the 1890s (4). A social, cultural, political history of U.S. in 1890s. Topics include racial politics of Jim Crow; Spanish-American War and conquest of the Philippines; "New Women" and gendering of modern culture; rise of cities, urban reform, labor resistance to new capitalist order.
140G The Cold War and After (4). Explores topics in gender, race, and class in American history since 1945, considering politics and popular culture, domestic issues, and foreign policy. Topics include McCarthyism and the civil rights, anti-war, and feminist movements.
142 American Social and Economic History
142A California in Modern America (4). California as a case study of national trends and as a unique setting: its specific problems and culture. Major themes include: colonization, immigration, race relations, agricultural development, industrialization, urbanization, working class movements, social conflict, and political reform.
142B Topics in American Social and Economic History (4). May be repeated for credit as topics vary.
144 American Intellectual and Cultural History
144A Early American Cultural and Intellectual History (4). Examination of ideas and culture during the early American period, with emphasis on the relationship of ideas to their social, political contexts. From contact to Puritanism to the Revolutionary era, with attention to constructions of class, race, gender.
144B Nineteenth-Century American Cultural and Intellectual History (4). Topics include religious revivals; antislavery thought; theories of the body; Transcendentalism; feminism and suffrage; the meanings of the Civil War; corporatism; realism; forms of racism and nativism.
144C Twentieth-Century American Cultural and Intellectual History (4). Topics include modernism and anti-modernism; Pragmatism; the Harlem Renaissance; theories of sexuality; mass culture and consumer culture; the rise of social science; Marxism; McCarthyism; the civil rights movement; the New Left; feminism, postmodernism.
144F Utopian Experiments in American History (4). Focus on the cooperative dimension of the American experience; the large number of intentional experiments in community living and alternative lifestyles in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Examination of both the ideological foundations of communitarianism and specific historical case studies. Formerly History 142B.
144G Topics in American Cultural and Intellectual History (4). May be repeated for credit as topics vary.
145 American Working-Class History (4). Traces formation of the American working-class and examines its response to the changing structures of economic/political power determined by nineteenth-century industrial capitalism and twentieth-century imperialism. Issues/intersections of race, culture, and gender are examined.
146 Women and Gender Relations in the United States. An examination of changes in gender relations and in the conditions of women's lives from the 1700s on. Emphasis on race and class, cultural images of women and men, sexuality, economic power, and political and legal status.
146D Sex in the U.S. to 1860 (4). Perspectives on sexual behavior in colonial and U.S. history to c. 1860. Mainstream and non-mainstream sexual practices, beliefs, identities. Asks why various ideas of sexual behavior developed and how they related to religious, racial, ethnic, political, cultural belief systems. (VII-A)
146E Gender in Nineteenth-Century America (4). A social and cultural history of women's lives in nineteenth-century America, examining how racial, sexual, class identities were constructed by women themselves and by their surrounding culture. Topics include slavery, anti-slavery movement, domesticity, experience of the Civil War. (VII-A)
146F American Women to 1820 (4). (VII-A)
146G United States Women: 1820-1980 (4). (VII-A)
146H Topics in Women and Gender Relations in the United States (4). May be repeated for credit as topics vary. Formerly History 146C. (VII-A)
148B Topics in Multicultural U.S. History (4). Examines the variety of cultural expressions through which the people who came to inhabit the United States historically signify their collective identities. May be repeated for credit as topics vary. (VII-A)
150 Topics in African American History (4). May be taken twice for credit as topics vary. Same as African American Studies 138. (VII-A)
150A Early African American History (4). Introduction to the main social, political, and political contours of the African American experience from the importation of Africans into the Americas, from the seventeenth through the eighteenth centuries. May be taken twice for credit as topics vary. Same as African American Studies 133A.
150B African American History 1900-Present (4). Examines different dimensions-economic, cultural, political, and social-of the African American experience since 1900, including pattern and forms of struggle against racist oppression and exploitation. May be taken twice for credit as topics vary. Same as African American Studies 133B.
150C New World Slave Societies (4). Examines the origins, development, operation, and end of slave societies in the Americas, including the pattern and forms of slave resistance. Focuses primarily upon the U.S., the Caribbean (Hispanic and non-Hispanic), and Brazil. Same as African American Studies 132A.
150D Slavery in the United States (4). Explores the origins, development, and operation of the institution of slavery in the U.S. from colonial times to the end of the Civil War. Experiences in the North and South are explored, right through to the end of slavery. Same as African American Studies 132B.
151 Chicana/Chicano History
151A Chicana/Chicano History: Pre-Colonial to 1900 (4). Examines social history of the southwest region from antiquity to 1900. Discusses major questions, theory and research methods pertinent to Chicanas/Chicanos. Themes include: indigenous empires, conquest, colonialism, social stratification, ideology, marriage, sexuality, industrial capitalism, accommodation and resistance. Same as Chicano/Latino Studies 132A. (VII-A)
151B Chicana/Chicano History: Twentieth Century (4). Examines social history of the Southwest with emphasis on Mexican-origin people. Discusses major questions, theory and research methods pertinent to Chicana/Chicano history. Themes explored include: immigration, xenophobia, class struggle, leadership, generational cohorts, unionization, education, barrioization, ethnicity, patriarchy, sexuality. Same as Chicano/Latino Studies 132B. (VII-A)
151C Latinas in the Twentieth Century U.S. (4). Latinas in the U.S. from 1900 to present, offering a diversity of their cultures, regional histories, sexualities, generations, and classes. Same as Chicano/Latino Studies 135. (VII-A)
152 Topics in Asian-American History (4). Introduction to important themes in the history of people of Asian ancestry in the United States from the nineteenth century to the present. May be repeated for credit as topics vary. (VII-A)
153 American Legal History (4). Introduction to American legal case materials, to legal categories and ways of thinking, and to selected topics in U.S. legal history. Does not offer a chronological survey of the development of law in the United States.
154 American Urban History (4). A study of urban communities in the United States, from colonial times to the present. Traces the impact of industrialization and urbanization on social and cultural life and investigates the significance of urban life for U.S. democratic culture.
155 Street Gangs in American History (4). Surveys the history of the street gang (1830-2000) in its three classic urban settings-New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Looks at the gang's popular culture, social science, and state policy. (VII-A)
158 History of American Foreign Relations
158A U.S. Foreign Relations Since World War II (4). An examination of relations between the United States and the world since the early twentieth century, with special attention to America's role in successive wars, its growing economic and cultural involvement abroad, and its connection with global problems of justice and development. (VII-B)
158B Imperialism in American History (4). To what extent has the United States (either consciously or unconsciously) dominated, used, and/or exploited other countries and nations in the years since its founding? Examines the causes and effects of American behavior toward less powerful peoples, from seventeenth century encounters to contemporary interventions. (VII-B)
158C America and the Third World (4). Introduction to the mounting problems of the underdeveloped, or "Third" World: population pressure, hunger, exploitation, ethnic struggle, political instability. Attention to the ways in which the industrialized "North" and, particularly, the United States affect and are affected by these difficulties. (VII-B)
LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY
161 Mexico
161A Indian and Colonial Societies in Mexico (4). Examines the history of Colonial Mexico from prehistoric times to the eighteenth century. Focuses on the social, economic, and political evolution of the new Mexican society which resulted from the "meeting" of two cultures. (VII-B)
161B Nineteenth-Century Mexico (4). Examines the history of Mexico in the nineteenth century. Focuses on the social, economic, political, and cultural transformation of Mexico in the 1800s. Same as Chicano/Latino Studies 133A. (VII-B)
161C Twentieth-Century Mexico (4). Examines the history of contemporary Mexico beginning with the Mexican Revolution and concluding with the present administration. Social, economic, and political effects of the Revolution; formation of a "one-party democracy"; economic transformation of the nation; the present crisis. Same as Chicano/Latino Studies 133B. (VII-B)
162 Brazil (4). Overview of social, economic, and political developments since 1500.
163 The World of Coffee (4). History of consumption and production of coffee over the centuries and coffee's cultural, economic, social, political consequences. Coffee's social life as a drug, symbol of hospitality, religious rite, sociability and bourgeois lifestyle, commodity, and source of livelihoods, imperial revenues, corporate profits. (VII-B)
164A Caribbean History: Colonization to Emancipation (4). Exploration of the history of the archipelago from pre-Columbian times to the end of slavery; examining the impact of European colonization, decimation of the indigenous populations, African slavery, resistance, and emancipation; the unity and diversity of experience in region. Same as African American Studies 134A.
164B Caribbean History: Emancipation to Independence (4). Post-emancipation and anti-colonial struggles ending with political independence for most of the region. Examines social, political, economic, cultural dimensions of post-emancipation period, including large-scale migration to Central America, the U.S., and Britain; the region's global cultural and political contribution. Same as African American Studies 134B.
168 Overview of Latin American History
168A Precolumbian Civilizations and European Colonialism (4). An overview of Native American peoples such as the Aztecs, Inca, Maya, and Spanish and Portuguese Conquest and Colonialism (1400-1700). Topics include: new religion, disease, African slavery, exports, gender, gender relations, and how colonial regimes shaped a new world. (VII-B)
168B Nineteenth-Century Iberian America (4). Examines the history of Iberian America in the nineteenth century. Focuses on Chile, Mexico, and Brazil as areas representative of the trends occurring in the region. Considers the social, economic, political, and cultural transformation of Iberian America in the last century. (VII-B)
168C History of Modern Latin America (4). Explores modern Latin American social, political, and cultural history. The Mexican Revolution; Eva Peron and populism; U.S. foreign policy; women and the Cuban Revolution; liberation theology and civil war in Guatemala; student radicalism; socialism and dictatorship in Chile; the Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas. (VII-B)
169 Topics in Latin American History (4). May be repeated for credit as topics vary. (VII-B)
ASIAN HISTORY
170 East Asia: Traditions and Transformations
170D Premodern East Asia (4). Introduction to the histories of China, Korea, and Japan from the earliest states to about 1600. Topics include: state formation and dissolution; the role of ideology and how it changes; religious beliefs and values; agriculture, commerce, and industry; changing family relations. (VII-B)
170E East Asia: 1600-1895 (4). Introduction to China, Korea, and Japan from about 1600 to 1895. Establishment of Qing Chinese, late Choson Korean, and Tokugawa Japanese sociopolitical orders and their characteristics, plus major cultural developments. Responses to Western impact and the rise of Meiji Japan. (VII-B)
170F East Asia Since 1895 (4). Introduction to the turbulent modern histories of China, Korea, and Japan since 1895. An overarching concern is to understand the evolution of modern East Asia and its place for humankind's future. (VII-B)
170G Topics in the History of Asia (4). Topics include the cultural, political, economic, social, intellectual, and religious history of Asia. May be repeated for credit as topics vary. (VII-B)
171 China
171D Chinese History to 1800 (4). A survey of the history of China to 1800. (VII-B)
171E Chinese History: 1800-1949 (4). An examination of Chinese society and thought from the late-eighteenth century to the 1949 revolution. Focuses on the role of intellectuals; popular culture; women in Chinese society; developments in commerce and urban life; rebellion; foreign imperialism. (VII-B)
171F Chinese History: 1949-Present (4). A discussion of major themes in the social, cultural, political, economic and intellectual history of China since the founding of the People's Republic in 1949. Emphases will vary from year to year. (VII-B)
171G Topics in the History of China (4). Topics include the cultural, political, economic, social, intellectual, and religious history of China. May be repeated for credit as topics vary. (VII-B)
172 Japan
172D Age of the Samurai (4). Topics include the simultaneous elaboration of a civilian aristocratic tradition and the military ethos, the conflict between martial and economic values in the context of an expanding economy, and the development of Japan's indigenous religions, art, and literature. (VII-B)
172E Imperial Japan (4). Topics in the rise of modern Japan include the relationship between centralization and imperialism, democracy and fascism, industrialization and feminism in the context of the complex and competing forces that shaped Japan's experience in the modern world. (VII-B)
172F Postwar Japan (4). From the ashes of defeat to economic superpower, from poverty to material consumerism, from the ethic of diligence and fortitude to hedonism. Addresses what these changes have meant for ordinary people, as well as government policy and Japan's international position. (VII-B)
172G Topics in the History of Japan (4). Topics include the cultural, political, economic, social, intellectual, and religious history of Japan. May be repeated for credit as topics vary. (VII-B)
173 Korea
173D Korean History to 1800 (4). A general survey of the history of Korea to 1800. Focuses on internal sociopolitical development, major cultural trends, and foreign relations. Students are introduced to various interpretive approaches in the historiography. (VII-B)
173E Korean History: 1800-1945 (4). An examination of Korean society and culture in tumultuous transition, focusing on some new challenges for the Choson Dynasty and its abortive reform effort, external imperialist pressures, and the Japanese colonial rule. (VII-B)
173F Korean History Since 1945 (4). Topics include the national liberation, origins of conflict between two rival regimes, South Korea's emergence as a major player in the international political economy, some salient characteristics of the North Korean Marxist state, triumph of democracy, and prospect for reunification. (VII-B)
173G Topics in the History of Korea (4). Topics include the cultural, political, economic, social, intellectual, and religious history of Korea. May be repeated for credit as topics vary. (VII-B)
SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
174 South Asia
174E Nations and Nationalities of India (4). Examines multiple definitions of nation, nationality, and nationalism. Assesses the seeming "successes" of anti-colonial nationalism, while addressing the seeming "failures" of the "freedom movement" in making of the modern nation-states. (VII-B)
174G Topics in the History of South Asia (4). Topics include the cultural, political, economic, social, intellectual, and religious history of South Asia. May be repeated for credit as topics vary. (VII-B)
175 Southeast Asia
175D Southeast Asia to 1900 (4). Describes the development of indigenous states and societies from earliest times, to the crises they face with growth of European power. Topics include migrations, trading and raiding, religious '"crossroads," temple states, the growth of commercial economies, state growth, changing cultural definitions. (VII-B)
175E Twentieth-Century Southeast Asia (4). Issues include legacies of colonialism, rise of nationalism and communism, role of religion in politics, creation of nation-states, development and its dislocations, globalization, changing cultural definitions, genocide and war crimes, human rights, ethnic conflicts, continuing impact of U.S. on region. (VII-B)
175F War in Vietnam (4). A comprehensive view of Vietnamese and American perspectives on the U.S. war in Vietnam, offering an in-depth historical background to Vietnam's internal dynamics, American perceptions of Vietnam, military and political strategies, and the experiences of Vietnamese and Americans directly involved. (VII-B)
175G Topics in the History of Southeast Asia (4). Topics include the cultural, political, economic, social, intellectual, and religious history of Southeast Asia. May be repeated for credit as topics vary. (VII-B)
SPECIAL STUDIES
Topics with particular methodological foci. Content varies; departmental office has quarterly list of topics. May be repeated for credit as topics vary.
180 Special Studies in Social History (4)
181 Special Studies in Economic History (4)
182 Special Studies in Intellectual-Cultural History (4)
183 Special Studies in International History (4)
184 Special Studies in Comparative History (4)
185 Special Studies in Social Theory (4)
HISTORICAL RESEARCH FOR HISTORY MAJORS
190 Colloquium (4). Specialized courses dealing primarily with close reading and analysis of secondary works; required reports and papers (critical essays). Each colloquium reflects the instructor's intellectual interests and is conducted as a discussion group. Limited to 15 students. Prerequisites: junior/senior standing and history major, or consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit as topics vary.
192 Research Seminar (4). Specialized courses that require analysis of a historical problem through research in primary sources and the preparation of an original research paper. Each research seminar is offered in a quarter following a History 190 colloquium and is related to the colloquium's subject. Prerequisites: History 190 in the preceding quarter; junior or senior standing; and History major or consent of instructor. May be taken for credit six times as topic varies.
198 Directed Group Study (4). Special topics through directed reading. Paper required. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
199 Independent Reading (1 to 4). Investigation of special topics through directed reading. Paper required. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit as topics vary.
GRADUATE COURSES
In addition to the following courses, graduate students in History might find Humanities 220 (Literary Theory and Its History) and Humanities 270 (Advanced Critical Theory) to be of interest.
HISTORY AND THEORY
200A, B, C History and Theory (4, 4, 4) F, W, S. Introduction to role of theory in historical writing, focusing on several major theorists, their relation to their setting, the structure of their thought, and its application to significant historical issues. Completion of History 200A and 200B is required for all History Ph.D. students. History 200C is optional. Same as Humanities 200A, B, C.
202 Proseminar (4). Topical courses devoted to the literature of a broad historical subject, e.g., the absolutist state, the French Revolution, comparative industrialization, women's history. May be repeated for credit as topics vary.
203 First-Year Research Seminar (4). Course devoted to research and writing on questions connected with proseminar topics. Normally required of all entering graduate students. Includes review of the current state of the literature and practical experience in conducting research and writing a research paper. Prerequisite: History 202.
204A-B Second-Year Research Seminar (4-4). Two-quarter sequence required of all Ph.D. students. Normally taken during the second year of the Ph.D. program; not required for M.A. students. Includes review of the current state of the literature and practical experience in conducting research and writing a research paper.
220 The Literature and Interpretations of Early-Modern Europe. Not offered every year.
220A Society and Economy (4)
220B Political History (4)
220C Intellectual and Cultural History (4)
230 The Literature and Interpretations of Modern European History. Not offered every year.
230A Europe: 1789-1848 (4)
230B Europe: 1850-1914 (4)
230C Europe: 1914-1989 (4)
240 The Literature and Interpretations of World History. Not offered every year.
240A Approaches to World History (4)
240B Topics in World History (4)
240C Advanced Research in World History (4)
250 The Literature and Interpretations of Latin American History. Not offered every year.
250A Colonial Period (4)
250B Nineteenth Century (4)
250C Twentieth Century (4)
260 The Literature and Interpretations of American History
260A Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (4)
260B Nineteenth Century (4)
260C Twentieth Century (4)
265 The Literatures and Interpretations of South and Southeast Asian History. Not offered every year.
265A Globalization in South and Southeast Asia (4)
265B Colonialism in South and Southeast Asia (4)
265C Nationalism in South and Southeast Asia (4)
273 Research Methods in Chinese History (4). Introduces major tools for research in Qing and twentieth-century Chinese history as well as an introduction to research tools for earlier periods. Not offered every year.
274 Seminar in Chinese History. May be repeated for credit as topics vary.
274A Chinese History: 1100-1750 (4)
274B Chinese History: 1600-1937 (4)
274C Chinese History: 1850-Present (4)
275 The Literature and Interpretations of Middle Eastern and North African History. Not offered every year.
275A Approaches to Islam in the Middle East/Maghrib (4)
275B Ottoman and Modern Middle East (4)
275C The Maghrib Since 1500 (4)
280 Literatures and Interpretations of East Asian History. Not offered every year.
280A China (4)
280B Japan (4)
280C Korea (4)
282 Seminar in Medieval and Early Modern British History. (4) F, W, S. An intercampus seminar in Medieval and Early Modern British history that is taught both at the Huntington Library in San Marino and at UCI. Focuses on the development of thesis statements, thesis chapters, and/or publishable articles. May be repeated for credit.
284A, B, C Seminar in French History (4, 4, 4) F, W, S. The development of French society and culture from the Old Regime to the present. May be used to fulfill the First-Year Research Seminar requirement. Prerequisite for 284C: 284A and 284B. Not offered every year.
SPECIAL STUDIES
290 Special Topics (4) F, W, S. Lectures, readings, and discussion on subjects more limited in scope than those included in the year-long colloquium series. May be repeated for credit as topics vary.
291 Directed Reading (4 to 12) F, W, S. Reading courses focused on specialized topics. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
295 Special Methods (4). Development of particular research skills.
298 Experimental Group Study (4). Open to four or more students. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit as topics vary.
299 Dissertation Research (4 to 12) F, W, S. Specifically designed for students researching and writing their dissertations. Prerequisite: consent of instructor; advancement to Ph.D. candidacy.
399 University Teaching (4) F, W, S. Limited to Teaching Assistants. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. May be repeated for credit.