Courses
HIST-1ZZ Transfer course (3)
Attributes: YLIBHIST-101D P3 Europe 1500-1815 (3)
A two-semester survey of the major themes and developments in the history of Europe and the relationship between European civilization and the world.
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FallHIST-102D P3 Europe Since 1815 (3)
A two-semester survey of the major themes and developments in the history of Europe and the relationship between European civilization and the world.
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SpringHIST-103D P3 US to 1865 (3)
The main lines of development in American history from the colonial period to the Civil War. Emphasis is given to major themes in political, social, economic, cultural, and diplomatic developments.
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FallHIST-104D P3 US Since 1865 (3)
The main lines of development in American history from the Civil War to the recent past. Emphasis is given to major themes in political, social, economic, cultural, and diplomatic developments.
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Spring & SummerHIST-105D Worlds in Collision (3)
This course surveys the interactions of political and economic events since World War II.
Attributes: HPES YLIBHIST-106D Asian Civilization Since 1800 (3)
This course provides a survey of Asian cultures and traditions.
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FallHIST-110C P3 American Revolution (3)
This course examines the origins, character, and results of the American Revolution. The interplay between domestic policy and foreign relations is emphasized.
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FallHIST-111 Panics and Pandemics (3)
This course will explore the origins and development of public health as well as the emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases and public health ethical issues. We will examine the historical experience of health and illness from a population perspective. The course seeks to reveal how the organization of societies facilitates or mitigates the production and transmission of disease. It also asks how populations and groups of individuals go about securing their health.
Attributes: HSCS YLIBHIST-116D P2 Asian Religions (3)
A comparative examination of the evolution of the philosophical and religious traditions of Asia. The main focus is on India, China, and Japan, with some attention to Korea and Southeast Asia. Our goal is to appreciate the way different peoples of Asia have thought about (and continue to think about) the most profound questions of the meaning of life, the nature of death, and their social roles.
Attributes: HINW HSCS P2 YLIBHIST-120 The Civil War (3)
An analysis of the causes, campaigns, and consequences of America’s most violent military experience.
Attributes: HISM YLIBHIST-130D P3 US Military History (3)
This course examines the history of American military strategy and force structure from the Revolution to Vietnam. It considers the peacetime issues of military theory, policy, and doctrine and the wartime topics of strategy, order-of-battle, and operations.
Attributes: HISM P3 YLIBHIST-131C P3 Ancient Warfare (3)
This course examines warfare in ancient Europe and Asia, spanning the emergence of city-states in the Fertile Crescent and the fall of Rome in 476 C.E. Topics covered include the causes of war, strategy, technology, tactics, war and society, women and war, and leadership.
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Spring – Even YearsHIST-140C War & American Society (3)
An analysis of the causes, nature, and consequences of American involvement in war. The course surveys U.S. military and strategic doctrine during the Revolution, War of 1812, Mexican-American War, Civil War, Spanish-American War, World Wars I and II, and the Korean War.
Attributes: HISM YLIBHIST-150 World War I (3)
An analysis and discussion of perhaps the most significant conflict in Western history. The origins, course, and effects of the war are examined, and conflicting interpretations discussed.
Attributes: HISM YLIBHIST-160C World War II in Europe (3)
This course examines the salient political and social developments that characterized the conflict in Europe between 1939 and 1945. Topics covered include the Battle of the Atlantic; the Battle of Britain; North Africa; the Soviet-German war; the combined bomber offensive; diplomacy; the Italian campaign of 1943-45; and the campaign in northwest Europe of 1944-45.
Attributes: HISM YLIBHIST-161 Hitler & Hollywood (3)
A course in the presentation and perception of the greatest modern war and the issues accompanying it.
Attributes: HISM HSCS YLIBHIST-170D WWII in the Pacific (3)
An introductory survey of World War II in the Pacific theater. We consider the Japanese and American roads to war, major events and battles, as well as some of the controversies of this momentous war such as Japan’s war goals, the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Attributes: HISM ISRS YLIBHIST-177D Asian Military History (3)
An introduction to the military traditions of China and Japan from ancient times until the 20th century, with some attention to Korea and Vietnam. Topics include early Chinese empires and border wars, the rise of the samurai in Japan, Japanese imperialism, World War II in Asia, and the Chinese communist revolution in 1949.
Attributes: HINW YLIBHIST-180P P3 The Vietnam Conflicts (3)
The following questions are addressed as we examine America’s most controversial war: Why did the U.S. expend so much blood and treasure in Southeast Asia? What goals were Americans fighting for? Why did so many oppose the war? Why didn’t the U.S. win? What are the lessons to be learned?
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SpringHIST-195 The American Century (3)
This course will analyze how each president since William McKinley has approached this critical issues of the global role of the United States. Some of the critical questions we will address are: why did the US intervene in WWI? Why did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor? Who was responsible for the Cold War? Why did the US fight in Vietnam? How did the issues of race and racism have an impact on US foreign affairs during the 20th Century? Who won the Cold War? Are there parallels/lessons from the Cold War that are applicable to the War on Terror? Students will reflect on how this history impacts our future.
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FallHIST-202 P1 Women&Gender in 19thC (3)
The course explores issues regarding gender, class, race, and sexuality
Attributes: HINA HSCS MUST P1 WGST YLIB
in the 19th century. Uses a variety of primary and secondary sources to understand the interaction among gender, politics, culture, science, and economics. Format combines lecture and class discussion of the assigned readings.HIST-203 History of Sport (3)
This course examines the historical development of sports in American society from its earliest colonial form to the current multi-billion dollar industry we see today. This course analyzes the external and internal events, and specific individuals, which have helped shape and define the sport industry. Cross-listed with SPST 203.
Attributes: HINA HSCS SPHR YLIBHIST-205D CC US SocialHis:The Family (3)
This course examines the persistent and changing features of the family in the U.S. from the colonial period to the present. The family is studied within the larger context of the major economic, political, religious, social, and intellectual changes in American history.
Attributes: AMUS CC HINA HSCS WGST YLIBHIST-208 Ancient & Medieval Europe (3)
This intermediate-level survey course shall examine the salient social, political, economic, and cultural developments that characterized ancient and medieval Europe ranging from the origins of civilization in southwest Asia to the emergence of the early modern world. Topics covered will include ancient Greece and Rome, the emergence of the Abrahamic religions, feudalism, and gender roles.
Attributes: HIES HSCS YLIBHIST-218 P5 Iran: Past & Present (3)
This course will serve to introduce students to the history of Iran, its people and culture, as well as many of the issues confronting the country today. Much maligned in the Western media at present, Iran is in fact a unique country with a rich and diverse cultural heritage and a long, complex history. Therefore, over the course of the semester, students will go beyond the image of Iran offered in the Western media, exploring the enigma that is Iran, and acquire an understanding of this often misrepresented and misunderstood nation and its people.
Attributes: HINW HSCS P5 YLIBHIST-219 Modern Middle East (3)
This course introduces students to the history of the modern Middle East, a vast region stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the border of Afghanistan, and from the Anatolian Plateau to the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf, comprised of such countries as Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. Our exploration begins in the sixteenth century, the era of the Ottoman and Safavid empires, and concludes in the early twenty-first century. We survey not only the region’s history but also consider its distinct ethnolinguistic groupings and its diverse religious landscape. Over the course of the semester students get past the image of the Middle East generally offered in Western media and learn to appreciate the complexity of the region’s history and its people.
Attributes: HIES HSCS YLIBHIST-221 P1 Women & the Arts (3)
This course looks at the emergence of modern women in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, examining their changing roles in politics, the economy, and cultural institutions. We examine the historical context as a backdrop for the gender roles, cultural norms, and shifting identities and how they are portrayed and created through various artistic vehicles. Among the themes we consider are the use of women as icons by others, particularly during turbulent times in history and especially in their relationship to violence, the various techniques and constructions employed to convey specific cultural imperatives, and the efforts of women artists themselves to balance their numerous roles in our culture.
Attributes: HINA HSCS P1 YLIBHIST-223 P5 Culture & Cuisine (3)
This course considers the crucial role food has played in history and culture. While this may seem obvious, we often do not consider the ways that everyday objects govern and inform our lives. During the semester, we examine foodways (the cultural, social and economic practices relating to the production and consumption of food) and the intersection of food in culture, traditions, and history.
Attributes: HSCS P5 YLIBHIST-226 P5 Contemporary Italy (3)
Investigates the significant socioeconomic, political, and ideological developments in Italian history from the end of the Napoleonic era to the contemporary period. Primary emphasis is on economic and political modernization during the first half of the 20th century.
May not be taken by students who have credit for HIST 225C.
Attributes: HIES HSCS P5 YLIBHIST-228 Gaming European History (3)
This course uses popular historically themed digital and print simulations to explore selected topics in European history. Students play and analyze various historically based games and then compare this experiential knowledge with associated primary and secondary sources to analyze critically those areas of European history.
Attributes: HIES HLAS YLIBHIST-229 Caliphs,Khans & Communists (3)
This course is intended to serve as an introduction to the region of Central Asia (i.e., the region occupied by the modern states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, as well as Afghanistan and much of Iran)for students who possess no prior knowledge of the region’s history and its diverse peoples and cultures. The historical survey will serve to familiarize students with important figures and events in the region from the pre-Islamic era through the Mongol and Russian conquests to the establishment of the USSR in the twentieth century.
Attributes: HINW HLAS YLIBHIST-234 China & New Global Economy (3)
An examination of the historical and cultural roots in China’s emergence as a major world power as well as its impact on the global economy. After assessing the role of traditional culture in Chinese economic development, we turn to the explosive growth since the 1980s. In addition to tracing the historical evolution of China as a world economic power, we ponder the degree to which this growth was the product of distinctive Chinese factors and/or the more ubiquitous phenomenon of “globalization.” Finally, we address the opportunities and challenges for Westerners to communicate and thereby succeed in contemporary China’s vibrant and dynamic society and business culture. The course structure includes presentations by students and the instructor, Harvard Business School case studies, and group work.
Attributes: HINW HPES ISRS YLIB
Formerly titled: Rise of Asian EconomiesHIST-237D P1 The Female Body (3)
This course explores the emergence of the notion of girlhood, its historical
Attributes: HHHD HHUM HINA HSCS P1 WGST YLIB
roots in Victorian notions of womanhood, and the “problematization” of
female bodies in puberty by medical or scientific communities. Through the
exploration of literature and works of art, we explore the use of biological
events for cultural control within the patriarchal discourse and the use of the
arts to both support and challenge that discourse.HIST-238 P3 History of Leadership (3)
This course will examine the meaning of leadership by looking at the impact of history, culture, and circumstance on how we define and identify leadership and the qualities of good leaders.
Attributes: HPES P3 YLIB
Restrictions: Including: -Major: Interdisciplinary StudiesHIST-244 Women and War (3)
This course explores the relationship between women and war in history. The effects of war and militarism on women’s lives and on the gendered concepts of masculinity and femininity are examined along with women’s roles as actors within the military complex as munitions makers, wives, mothers, nurses, and soldiers. Feminist theories of gender, sexuality, and patriarchal culture are employed to explore the relationship between public and private violence. The treatment of war in films in the 20th century is studied to reveal how discussions and views about major wars were related to the relationship between the sexes and how they reflected the ways in which the views of men and women differed when it came to war and the ways in which they were congruent.
Attributes: HISM WGST YLIBHIST-246C CC Modern Russia (3)
The history of Russia from its involvement in the Napoleonic Wars until the present. The course focuses on socioeconomic and political developments, Russia’s relationship with the West, and the rise, consolidation, and collapse of the Soviet Union.
Attributes: CC HIES HPES YLIBHIST-250C P2 History of the Papacy (3)
Concerns the development of the papacy and its role in world history. Examines the major historical, doctrinal, and theological justifications of the independent papacy in a global context from its origins with the pontificate of Leo I to that of John Paul II. Covers material from the late Roman and Medieval, Renaissance, Modern, and Contemporary periods.
Cross-listed with REST 250C.
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SpringHIST-252D British Empire:1550-1950 (3)
Development of the British Empire from the 16th to the 20th centuries from the perspective of both core and periphery. In this process it can be seen not only how London reacted to the development of the Empire but how the colonies affected London.
Attributes: HIES HPES YLIBHIST-255 CC Early Britain (3)
Traces the major political, socioeconomic, and cultural development of the British Isles from the origins of Britannia in the Roman period; the emergence of feudalism after the Norman conquest; the weakening of centralized authority during and after the Hundred Years War; the effects of the Protestant Reformation; the development of the Plantagenet, Tudor and Stuart dynasties; and the establishment in England and Wales of constitutional government in 1688 with the Glorious Revolution.
Attributes: CC HIES HSCS YLIBHIST-256 CC Britain Since 1688 (3)
The course analyzes Britain’s internal developments both socially and politically as well as its rise and decline as a Great Power after 1688. Among the areas of focus are the Empire, the Industrial Revolution, the Victorian period, Britain in the world wars, and the challenges of British decline since 1945.
Attributes: CC HIES HSCS YLIBHIST-257 P5 History of Ireland (3)
The course will examine the political, socioeconomic, and military history of Ireland from pre-history to the present, focusing on the 16th through 20th Centuries. It will pay particular attention to Ireland’s relations with Britain and with Europe.
Attributes: HIES HSCS P5 YLIBHIST-258 History of Canada (3)
Canada is the closest friend and neighbor of the United States, yet it remains largely unknown to most Americans. This course studies the early history of Canada, its French and colonial periods, and then proceeds to a study of modern Canadian statehood. Among the issues considered are Canada’s role in the British Empire, relations with the U.S., and the English-French language controversy.
Attributes: HINA HSCS YLIBHIST-260D American Diplomatic Hist (3)
Surveying American foreign relations from the Revolution through Korea, this course examines America’s rise to world power status and the resulting debates over the nature of that status.
Attributes: HISM ISRS YLIBHIST-272P CC Martin & Malcolm (3)
Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., were prominent religious advocates of Black Liberation. Their names and ideals still motivate countless Americans. Representative texts of both men are studied to understand their religious insights in light of the history of the Civil Rights Movement during the second half of the 20th century.
Students who have credit for REST 281P cannot take this course.Cross-listed with REST 272P.
Attributes: AMUS CC HINA HLAS YLIBHIST-273 Crime & Punishment:History (3)
This course will examine prison systems and sentencing schemes under federal and NY state law as part of a continuum that has produced the current concepts on mass incarceration and reform proposals. Beginning with ancient and medieval historical texts and moving forward, the course will also include case studies and encourage critical thinking about our current approach to imprisonment.
Attributes: HINA HSCS YLIBHIST-275D Nazi Germany (3)
This course shall examine the salient social and political developments that characterized the emergence, evolution, and ultimate collapse of National Socialist Germany between 1933 and 1945. Topics covered will include the life of Adolf Hitler, geostrategic developments, women, the economy, political persecution, the Holocaust, and World War II.
Formerly titled: Modern Germany
Attributes: HIES HPES YLIBHIST-281D Native Amer-US Relations (3)
A history of the changing Indian policies pursued by the colonial, state, and national governments in the United States from the 17th century to the present. The topics studied include the clash of cultures, resistance, and the reservation policy of the U.S. government.
Attributes: HINA HSCS YLIBHIST-287 Cold War Asia (3)
This course offers a new perspective on the Cold War as more than a struggle between the Soviet Union and the United States as “superpowers” in a bipolar world. The Cold War in Asia was also a “hot war” waged in Korea and Vietnam. Arguably the Cold War in Asia did not end with the collapse of the Soviet Union but continues to this day, as Communist North Korea pursues nuclear weapons and proponents of democracy struggle with a neo-Stalinist ‘Communist’ regime in the People’s Republic of China.
Attributes: HINW HISM YLIBHIST-291D P3 Japan Since 1800 (3)
An exploration of modern Japanese history in its global context. We examine Japan’s rapid emergence on the world stage as a nation-state, its self-destruction in 15 years of aggressive war, and its resurgence as a world economic power in the postwar years. Japan occupies a unique place in world history as the first non-Western country to rival Europe and the United States both militarily and economically. Its modern history thus remains the site of complex issues for many Japanese pondering their place in the world as well as for students of comparative modernization.
Attributes: HINW HPES ISRS P3 YLIBHIST-292D P3 China Since 1800 (3)
An exploration of modern Chinese history in its global context. Heir to a 4,000-year tradition of cultural, military, and economic greatness, mid-19th-century China encountered an utterly new phenomenon in Western imperialism. The impact of the West played a major role in traditional China’s collapse, and Western concepts were a crucial ingredient in its rise as a communist state after 1949. Yet another wave of imported ideas and institutions contributed to the revolutionary transformation of China since the 1980s as a major player in the world economy.
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SpringHIST-294 The Irish in New York (3)
This course explores the sociohistorical context of Irish immigration to the United States through the microcosm of their experience in New York State. Beginning with the earliest settlers, and continuing through the famine and post-famine years, through the Civil War, and into the twentieth century, this course examines the interaction of ethnicity, language, and religion in the creation of a stable group identity and a secure place in a foreign society. While the focus is on communities throughout New York, there is comparative work with both the Irish homeland and to New York City, which in the nineteenth century became home to more Irish-born people than any other city, except for Dublin. Students also draw connections between the Irish experience and the current views of immigrant populations, and work with primary and secondary sources as they explore research methodologies.
Attributes: HINA HSCS YLIBHIST-296D History of Rochester (3)
Surveys the development of Rochester from an early-19th-century boomtown to a contemporary technology center and how those changes are a microcosm of larger trends in urban history. The rise of an urban middle class, the influence of the Erie Canal, Rochester as the crucible of activism, the significance of the agricultural hinterland, the impact of immigration, and the socioeconomic transformations wrought by war are all discussed. The course weaves the history of leading industrialists with that of ordinary citizens of various backgrounds and incorporates the history of the Diocese of Rochester into the general social and political history of the community.
Attributes: AMUS HINA HLAS MUST YLIBHIST-298D New York State History (3)
A history of the Empire State from colonial times to the present. This class is particularly useful for students pursuing Childhood or Adolescence Education certification and who plan to teach in New York State.
Attributes: AMUS HINA HPES MUST YLIBHIST-300 Modern World:Geog&Pol (3)
Examines and analyzes the major socioeconomic, political, and ideological developments in 20th-century Europe and explores how these affected global history. A major theme of the class is the confrontation between liberal democracy and totalitarian systems.
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FallHIST-301 P1 Japanese Hist Thru Film (3)
The films of Japan as windows into its history and culture. About one Japanese film each week, class discussion, student presentations, and considerable written work, including a 10-page essay. Each student should become adept at employing film as a source for scholarly analysis. Through critical thinking, writing, and speaking, students will develop the skills to relate themes and issues in these films to Japan’s past. Topics include war and peace, self and society, and the social role of women. While there are no prerequisites, there will be additional reading assignments for those without any prior college-level work in Japanese history.
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FallHIST-302 P1 Chinese Hist Thru Film (3)
The films of China as windows into its history and culture. About one Chinese film each week, class discussion, student presentations, and considerable written work, including a 10-page essay. Each student should become adept at employing film as a source for scholarly analysis. Through critical thinking, writing, and speaking, students develop the skills to relate themes and issues in these films to China’s past. Topics include the impact of communism, “continuous revolution,” and the social role of women. While there are no prerequisites, there are additional reading assignments for those without any prior college-level work in Chinese history.
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SpringHIST-303 P1 Indian Hist Thru Film (3)
The films of India as windows into its history and culture. About one Indian film each week, class discussion, student presentations, and considerable written work, including a 10-page essay. Each student should become adept at employing film as a source for scholarly analysis. Through critical thinking, writing, and speaking, students develop the skills to relate themes and issues in these films to India’s past. Topics include colonial rule and independence, Hindu-Muslim conflict, and the social role of women. (Note that, while there are no prerequisites, there are additional reading assignments for those without any prior college-level work in Indian history.)
Attributes: HINW HSCS ISRS P1 YLIBHIST-304 Hip Hop Punk Rock Amer His (3)
Students will study recent American history through engagement with hip hop and punk rock songs, primary sources related to American politics, and secondary sources that describe the culture, politics, economics, and social dynamics of contemporary US history. Students will examine the intersection of culture and politics and apply historical methods to understanding and writing about how culture informs politics and politics informs culture in the United States since 1970.
Attributes: YLIBHIST-310D New Republic 1783-1829 (3)
A history of the United States from the conclusion of the Revolution to the end of the Federalist era.
Attributes: HINA HLAS YLIBHIST-315 Napoleon’s Europe (3)
This course explores one of the most important periods in European history, that of the French Revolution and the subsequent Napoleonic empire. What began in 1789 as a domestic political conflict within France would eventually become a titanic struggle that would embroil the entire continent and lead to major transformations in politics, society, culture, and warfare. We investigate these changes as well as one of the most complex personalities ever to dominate Europe: Napoleon Bonaparte.
Attributes: HIES HLAS YLIBHIST-320 Crisis of Union 1829-77 (3)
An examination of slavery, sectionalism, secession, war, and Reconstruction at this critical time in the history of the United States.
Attributes: HINA HSCS YLIBHIST-322 Reconstruction and Race (3)
Four million slaves celebrated freedom at the close of the Civil War, only to find it invaded and eroded over the ensuing decade and a half. Reconstruction marked a time of great hope and success for African Americans while Redemption, as it was known in the South, focused on ending all racial progress and the re-affirmation of long-standing prejudices and practices. Students will explore these significant years and their lasting impact on our society considering the question, how did we get to where we are today?
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Spring – Even YearsHIST-325 American Society (3)
This upper-division course will examine facets of American history and society. The broad panoply of topics covered can include women, historically underrepresented groups, forces of social change, economic developments, strategic/military/diplomatic history, and the historical and social implications of advances in STEM. Analyzing primary and secondary sources, students generate original research.
Attributes: YLIBHIST-330C Pop & Prog:1877-1918 (3)
W. E. B. DuBois, Susan B. Anthony, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, W. J. Bryan, and Robert LaFollette are only a few of the reformers and activists who enlivened American democracy during a critical time in its development. This course examines their successes, failures, and lasting legacies.
Attributes: HINA HSCS YLIBHIST-340D America:1918-1941 (3)
A history of the United States from the end of World War I to the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Topics of analysis typically include the Republican “New Era”, race, ethnicity, and gender between the wars; the Crash of 1929; the Great Depression; the New Deal and its critics; and the origins of World War II.
Attributes: AMUS HINA HPES YLIBHIST-351P US Since 1945 (3)
A history of the United States since the conclusion of World War II. Topics of analysis typically include the origins of the Cold War; Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement; the Vietnam War; Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society; the women’s movement; Watergate; the Reagan Revolution; and the Clinton 1990s.
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Fall – Even YearsHIST-375 The Italian Renaissance (3)
Traces the origins, course, and consequences of the Italian Renaissance and its impact on Europe from the late Middle Ages to the Protestant Reformation. A major theme is the emergence and maturation of early modern political, socioeconomic, and cultural sensibilities.
Attributes: HIES HSCS YLIBHIST-385D War and State (3)
An analysis of the intellectual, political, and military origins, development, and consequences of European warfare and statecraft from the late Roman to contemporary periods. Topics include the Roman Imperial state and its collapse, the rise and transformation of the Carolingian and Germanic empires into the monarchies of the Middle Ages, the consolidation of the absolutist state of the Enlightenment, the emergence of the modern nation-state, and the subsequent proliferation of competing democratic and totalitarian alternatives.
Attributes: HIES HISM YLIB
(Formerly titled: Sword and Robe Foundations)HIST-390 Public Hist:Hist&Community (3)
This course explores the principles, techniques, and the ethics of the professional practice of public history. In addition, it examines the relationship between professionally trained historians, employed in both academe or public history, and history museums, societies, and institutions, as well as local and regional governments and communities.
Attributes: HINA HLAS MUST YLIB ZEXLHIST-395 The Usable Past (3)
This course examines some of the challenges of historical work in museums, historical sites, archives, and other public history settings. Topics include a general overview of best practices in areas such as collections management, preservation, and archives, as well as administrative issues such as public relations, fundraising, and grantsmanship.
Attributes: HINA HLAS MUST YLIB ZEXLHIST-401 Topics Political/Cultural Stds (3)
A concentrated examination of themes, issues, and ideas in Social/Cultural history.
Attributes: HINA HSCS YLIBHIST-402 Topics in Political/Econ Stds (3)
A concentrated examination of themes, issues, and ideas in Political/Economic history.
Attributes: HIES HPES YLIBHIST-403 P2 Topics:Mil&Dipl Studies (3)
A concentrated examination of themes, issues, and ideas in strategic, military, and diplomatic studies.
Attributes: HISM P2 YLIBHIST-404 Topics Ldrshp/Appl Hist Stds (3)
A concentrated examination of themes, issues, and ideas in Leadership and Applied History studies.
Attributes: HINW HLAS YLIBHIST-430 American Economic Hist (3)
Examining the nature and objectives of American capitalism, this course traces the progress of the U.S. economy from the 18th to the 20th century.
Attributes: HINA HPES YLIBHIST-441 American Colonial History (3)
This course examines the social, cultural, economic, and political development of the New England, Middle and Southern colonies. Those developments that contributed to the growth of an American consciousness and the ultimate outbreak of the American Revolution will also be discussed.
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Spring – Odd YearsHIST-445 Diplo Hist Modern Europe (3)
Focuses on the major diplomatic events of European great power politics from the Concert of Europe to the end of the Cold War. Primary emphasis is on great power diplomacy within Europe itself but includes discussions of European imperialism and continental relations with the United States.
Attributes: HISM ISFS YLIBHIST-475 Washington DC-Internship (6 TO 9)
Washington Experience semester is offered through The Washington Center.
Attributes: YLIB
Permission of the advisor, department chair, and TWC liaison (Dr. Monica Cherry) is required to register.
Pre-requisites: HIST-476 Y D-HIST-476 Washington DC-Seminar (3 TO 6)
Washington Experience semester is offered through The Washington Center.
Attributes: YLIB
Permission of the advisor, department chair, and TWC liaison (Dr. Monica Cherry) is required to register.
Pre-requisites: HIST-477 Y D-HIST-477 Washington DC-Forum (1 TO 3)
Washington Experience semester is offered through The Washington Center.
Attributes: YLIB
Permission of the advisor, department chair, and TWC liaison (Dr. Monica Cherry) is required to register.HIST-479 NYSCTE Review (1)
This course will provide students with a summative review of topics covered in the New York State social studies teaching certification exams. Students who are planning to take the exam within the year will benefit most from participation in the course.
Attributes: YLIBHIST-490 Internship (1 TO 15)
Permission of the internship director is required.
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Attributes: YLIB ZEXL
Fall, Spring & Summer
Restrictions: Including: -Major: History, HistoryHIST-496 Independent Study (1 TO 3)
An in-depth analysis of a topic in History. After consulting an appropriate member of the History Department, the student composes a two-page proposal and bibliography that will need to be approved by the faculty supervisor of the project and the department chair. The student’s independent study will culminate in a paper of 25-30 pages and will utilize both appropriate primary and secondary sources.
Completion of the Independent Study/Tutorial Authorization form is required.
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Attributes: YLIB ZRES
Fall, Spring & Summer
Restrictions: Including: -Major: History, History -Class: Junior, SeniorHIST-498H Honors in History (3)
An in-depth analysis of a topic in History. After consulting an appropriate member of the History Department, the student composes a two-page proposal and bibliography that will need to be approved by the faculty supervisor of the project and the department chair. The student’s independent study will culminate in a paper of at least 30 pages and will utilize both appropriate primary and secondary sources. At the conclusion of the semester, the student will present and defend his or her work to members of the department.
Attributes: HLAS YLIB
Completion of the Independent Study/Tutorial Authorization form is required.
Restrictions: Including: -Major: History, History -Class: SeniorHIST-1071 Gaming Strategy & History (3)
This course focuses on the theory and academic use of historical wargames to teach selected strategic and historical topics in European and American History. Over the semester, students utilize individually as well as in teams, different historical wargames and simulations to facilitate active learning.
Attributes: LC YLIB
Restrictions: Including: -Class: Freshman -Attribute: New Core 20-21HIST-1072 Talking with the Dead (3)
This Learning Community course focuses on the Spiritualist Movement in western New York in the mid-19th century.
Attributes: LC YLIB
Restrictions: Including: -Class: Freshman -Attribute: New Core 20-21HIST-1073 Tpc: Revolutionary Europe (3)
A lecture and discussion Learning Community course about modern European revolutionary movements and regimes. The course utilizes the historical method of tracing change and continuity over time through the study, analysis, and synthesis of primary and secondary textual and lecture materials to foster the analytical, communication, and historical perspectives of a liberal arts education within the Catholic tradition.
Fall 2020 Topic
HIST 1073 Section 01 Topic: Revolutionary Europe
Attributes: LC YLIB
Restrictions: Including: -Attribute: New Core 20-21HIST-1074 China’s Century? (3)
The twentieth century has already witnessed the rapid rise of China as an economic, political, and military power. Will this trajectory continue, making the People’s Republic of China the world’s new superpower? Or will the tremendous challenges facing China derail this astonishing express train to international dominance? We examine the historical roots of China’s return to great power status, the different types of global power it is pursuing, and individual stories of success and failure in order to highlight the human dimension of China’s dramatic reappearance on the world stage. Finally, we reflect upon the future prospects for China, moving forward into an utterly new world.
Attributes: LC YLIB
Restrictions: Including: -Class: Freshman -Attribute: New Core 20-21HIST-1075 Smugtown: Race & Rochester (3)
This course will examine the history of race in Rochester and the impact on education, housing, economic development, and social justice. Students will explore the concept of “history mapping” as well and will contextualize and integrate this into their study.
Attributes: LC YLIB
Restrictions: Including: -Class: Freshman -Attribute: New Core 20-21HIST-1076 Mapping Change: Rochester (3)
This course will introduce students to the concept of the “deep map” by following the course and history of the Genesee River which transects the city of Rochester. Along with the stories of residents, businesses, and general history along the banks, students will map the changes along the River and explore connections to enhance their understanding of the relationships between environment and history.
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Attributes: LC YLIB
Fall
Restrictions: Including: -Class: Freshman -Attribute: New Core 20-21HIST-1077 Activism in Rochester (3)
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Attributes: LC YLIB
Fall
Restrictions: Including: -Class: Freshman -Attribute: New Core 20-21HIST-1079 History & Society (3)
This section of your learning community will focus on using history to engage with a multitude of lived societies. Spanning centuries our effort will look to discover some of the key social, political, and economic attributes from historical cases drawing comparisons and particularities between various societies. This will be done through the active use of primary sources that will encourage a reaction from you about past societies through inquiry and engagement. The interaction with a plurality of historical societies will allow you then to help reflect and participate in your own contemporary society.
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Attributes: LC YLIB
Fall
Restrictions: Including: -Class: Freshman -Attribute: New Core 20-21HIST-1299 Research-based Writing (3)
Students study and practice skills central to academic and professional research through the development of independent, inquiry-based projects. In their projects, students assert, support, and integrate their own positions into scholarly conversation based in research. Students develop competency in the location, evaluation, and analysis and documentation of sources that represent a range of different perspectives on important issues.
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Attributes: RW YLIB ZRES
Spring
Restrictions: Including: -Class: Freshman, Sophomore -Attribute: New Core 20-21HIST-2100 Activism in Rochester (3)
Through this course students will explore activism in Rochester by engaging the history of the abolitionist movement, the suffrage movement, and the Black power movement. Students will develop an understanding of the issues these historical actors confronted, the tactics and strategies they utilized, and they will evaluate the success of individuals and groups within these social movements through group projects. After evaluating these actors and groups within their historical context, students will apply their understanding of historical activism to contemporary challenges facing women and African Americans today in Rochester and the United States, more broadly.
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Attributes: CCE YLIB
Spring
Restrictions: Including: -Attribute: New Core 20-21; Excluding: -Class: Freshman, SeniorHIST-2101 Perspectives on War (3)
This course considers the experiential differences of two of the nation’s wars drawn from the last hundred years that have informed a diverse understanding of duty, patriotism, loyalty and service. Students also participate in a series of discussion leadership training events, culminating in a variety of public discussions led by students. The students facilitate dialogues focused on the experience of war, engaging veteran clients of the WNY Heroes, Inc. and veterans in residence or day care at a group of senior living communities.
Attributes: CCE HISM YLIB ZCIV
Restrictions: Excluding: -Class: Freshman, SeniorHIST-2102 From the Rhine to Genesee (3)
From the Rhine to the Genesee will examine the growth and experience of German immigrants in Rochester through analysis of newspapers, public health records, and other primary sources available from the Rochester Historical Society, Rochester Public Library, Rochester Museum and Science Center, and the University of Rochester library “St. John Fisher College—Rochester: Mapping Place, Space, and Identity”, page 10 and archives. Students will review census data, read translations of select articles from three German-language newspapers published between 1851 and 1967, and study a number of historical secondary sources about German immigration. Students will pay special attention to how German immigrants in Rochester fared during the period of the 1918 flu pandemic. The course will also examine the German experience in larger comparative perspective, with particular attention to how racial, ethnic, and class inequities; the circumstances of their arrival; and larger policy and political factors facilitated the integration of this group more readily than others. Students will contribute narratives, images, and data to the deep map of Rochester, highlighting residential areas populated by German immigrants.
Attributes: YLIB ZCIV
Restrictions: Including: -Attribute: New Core 20-21; Excluding: -Class: Freshman, SeniorHIST-2105 Dimensions of Service (3)
In Citizenship and Civic Engagement courses, students will gain the knowledge, skills, and perspectives they need to become contributing citizens in a diverse and complex society. These experiences help ensure a commitment to collaboratively working across and within community contexts and structures to achieve civic aims in a democracy.
Beginning with text and movie interpretation, students will explore the after experience of service providers and veterans of previous wars, specifically WWI, Iran, and Afghanistan. Veterans and support-service personnel (SIVs) and SJF students will be trained in best practices in discussion leadership, emphasizing the study of humanities sources about war and its aftermath, grounding in ethical frameworks, and discussions of cultural interactions. The course culminates with student and student veterans leading small-group public discussions with veterans and resettled interpreters in the community. This work is grounded in explorations of previous service workers’ postwar experiences in WWI, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Students will work with the Veterans Service Agency and Keeping Our Promise, providing a unique community experience.
Attributes: CCE YLIB ZCIV
Restrictions: Including: -Attribute: New Core 20-21; Excluding: -Class: Freshman, SeniorHIST-2200 Ascertaining the Truth (3)
In the year 2000, a British court dismissed a libel charge filed by David Irving against Jewish Studies professor Deborah Lipstadt, who had described the former as a Holocaust denier. This course uses the libel trial in order to analyze the historicity of the Holocaust. Student draw on the trial transcript, additional primary sources and secondary print and digital sources, and the film medium in order to examine how Lipstadt proved that the Holocaust had, in fact, occurred, and that the libel charge against her was therefore baseless. The format is seminar, with discussion, lecture, and presentations by students.
Attributes: CIA HSCS YLIB
Restrictions: Excluding: -Class: Freshman, SeniorHIST-2210 Contemporary Issues (3)
In Contemporary Issues, we analyze clashing interpretations of the recent past and present in order to understand how we have gotten to where we are today in the United States.
Attributes: CIA HPES YLIB
Restrictions: Excluding: -Class: Freshman, SeniorHIST-2218 Iran: Past and Present (3)
This course will serve to introduce students to the history of Iran, its people and culture, as well as many of the
issues confronting the country today. Much maligned in Western media at present, Iran is in fact a unique country
with a rich and diverse cultural heritage and long, complex history. Therefore, over the course of the semester
students will go beyond the image of Iran offered in Western media, explore the enigma that is Iran and its history,
and acquire an understanding of this often misrepresented and misunderstood nation and its people.Typically offered:
Attributes: CIA YLIB
Spring – Even Years
Restrictions: Including: -Attribute: New Core 20-21; Excluding: -Class: Freshman, SeniorHIST-2308 History of Hunting (3)
This course examines the history, development, and significance of hunting in North America and Europe. Students consider the types of hunting (sustainment, aristocratic, public or private land, guided or unguided, canned or wild, sport, trophy, market, big game, small game, waterfowl, bow, gun, and primitive), the respective type of hunters, and the historic and systemic barriers to entry to hunting (socio-economic, racial, ethnic, and gender).
Attributes: DEI HSCS YLIB
Restrictions: Excluding: -Class: Freshman, SeniorHIST-2319 Hist of MidEast in Mod Era (3)
This course introduces students to the history of the modern Middle East, a vast region stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the border of Afghanistan, and from the Anatolian Plateau to the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf, comprised of such countries as Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia and so on. Our exploration begins in the sixteenth century, the era of the Ottoman and Safavid empires, and concludes in the early twenty-first century. We survey not only the region’s history, but also consider its distinct ethnolinguistic groupings and its diverse religious landscape. Over the course of the semester, students get past the image of the Middle East generally offered in Western media and learn to appreciate and understand the complexity of the region’s history and its peoples.
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Attributes: DEI HSCS ISRS YLIB
Spring – Odd Years
Restrictions: Excluding: -Class: Freshman, SeniorHIST-2440 jus post bellum&Civil Wars (3)
This course examines the quality of the peace established following modern European civil wars through the framework of just post bellum (just Peace). The civil wars we study affected multiple levels of society from intense intrapersonal violence to systematic collapse. Understanding the historical causes of the wars and how they ended, helps students to distinguish, apply, and justify a holistic peace settlement which is more than simply the absence of violence, but one that establishes positive norms in addressing broader issues of justice.
Attributes: ER YLIB
Restrictions: Excluding: -Class: Freshman, SeniorHIST-3990 Adv Research-Based Writing (3)
Students develop and inquiry-based project by conducting in-depth research using discipline-specific practices that result in transferable research and writing. Students build on the critical thinking and writing competencies they have previously acquired to engage topics and ideas in the field. Students formulate important questions or problems, identify and examine appropriate sources, and use evidence in order to substantiate their own claims. They acknowledge and address alternative explanations in scholarly conversations and revise their work accordingly. Outcomes of the project are communicated in both written and oral forms or on other media platforms.
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Attributes: AWC YLIB
Fall
Restrictions: Including: -Attribute: New Core 20-21; Excluding: -Class: Freshman, Sophomore