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Course Schedule for HISTORY - Fall 2013

Class No.	Course ID	Title	Credits	Type	Instructor(s)	Days:Times	Location	Permission Required	Dist
2715	HIST-102-01	Europe Since 1715	1.00	LEC	Kete,Kathleen	TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM	TBA		HUM
		Enrollment limited to 35
		European history from 1715 to the present.
3399	HIST-205-01	Road to WWI: Europe 1870-1918	1.00	LEC	Rodriguez,Allison A.	MWF: 11:00AM-11:50AM	TBA		HUM
		Enrollment limited to 35
		This course will be an examination of the cultural, social, political and diplomatic upheavals leading to Europe’s self-destruction in the First World War. We will also look at the war itself, how it pulled the entire world into the European conflict, and the war’s legacy. Topics will include the new nationalism and imperialism; mass politics, socialism and anarchism; cities and modern aesthetics; the practice of “total war”; and the Russian Revolution. Readings will include literature of the era as well as historical studies.
2806	HIST-208-01	North Amer Environmental Hist	1.00	LEC	Wickman,Thomas M.	TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM	TBA		HUM
		Enrollment limited to 35
		This course surveys the environmental history of North America and the Caribbean from 1491 to the present. Topics include indigenous practice, colonization, agricultural intensification, industrialization, urbanization, war, waste disposal, and climate change. Above all, the course will be concerned with the political conflicts and social inequities that arose as the continent and its surrounding waters underwent centuries of ecological change. The global environmental contexts and consequences of American political and economic activities also will be emphasized.
3178	HIST-209-01	African-American History	1.00	LEC	Greenberg,Cheryl	MW: 1:15PM-2:30PM	TBA		HUM
		Enrollment limited to 35
		NOTE: 10 seats are reserved for first year students.
		The experiences of African-Americans from the 17th century to the present with particular emphasis on life in slavery and in the 20th-century urban North.
2747	HIST-216-01	World War II	1.00	LEC	Kassow,Samuel D.	MWF: 10:00AM-10:50AM	TBA		HUM
		Enrollment limited to 40
		This is a survey of the political, military, social, cultural and economic aspects of the Second World War.
3175	HIST-223-01	Japan into the Mod World	1.00	LEC	Bayliss,Jeffrey	MWF: 10:00AM-10:50AM	TBA		GLB2
		Enrollment limited to 35
		Counts as one of the survey courses for the two-semester history sequence for the Asian Studies major. This course examines the social, economic, and cultural transformations that occurred in Japan from its initial encounter with Western modernity through its rise to military superpower status in the first half of the 20th century. Students will gain a greater understanding of the problems that have shaped Japan, by exploring the challenges, conflicts, triumphs, and tragedies of modernization, industrialization, and nation-building as the Japanese experienced them in the 19th and 20th centuries. The course concludes with a detailed exploration of the road to the Pacific War and the social, political, and cultural effects of mobilization for total war followed by total defeat.
3174	HIST-228-01	Islamic Civilization to 1517	1.00	LEC	Antrim,Zayde	TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM	TBA		GLB2
		Enrollment limited to 35
		This course surveys the transformation of the Middle East into an Islamic civilization from the life of Muhammad in the early seventh century through the collapse of the Mamluk Empire in 1517. It focuses on social, cultural, and political history and addresses regional variations from Morocco to Iran. Topics include women, religious minorities, and slavery, as well as Islamic education, mysticism, and literature.
3393	HIST-238-01	Caribbean History	1.00	LEC	Figueroa,Luis A.	TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM	TBA		GLB2
		Enrollment limited to 35
		The location of the first encounter, conquest, and colonization of Native American peoples by Europeans, the Caribbean became a center of bitter rivalries between European imperial powers, and later in the 20th century a new, premiere location of the United States’ own imperial thrust. The Caribbean’s strategic location in relation to Atlantic Ocean trade routes and its tropical climate and fertile soils were key factors in shaping these imperial rivalries and the colonial and postcolonial societies that emerged in the region. The vast experience of African slavery, the later “indentured” migration of hundreds of thousands of Asians to some colonies, and the migration of similar numbers of Europeans (especially to the Hispanic Caribbean) have shaped deeply yet unevenly the nature of Caribbean societies since the 16th century, giving the Caribbean a complex multi-ethnic, yet also heavily “Western,” cultural landscape. This course will introduce students to these and other aspects of Caribbean history, from the pre-European era, through the epics of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) and the Cuban Revolution of 1959, to the present.
3256	HIST-243-01	Modern Germany	1.00	LEC	Rodriguez,Allison A.	MWF: 12:00PM-12:50PM	TBA		HUM
		Enrollment limited to 40
		This course will explore Germany's rise from an assortment of states to a (re)united powerhouse at the heart of Europe. We will examine nationalism and the "failure" of 1848; Germany's unification under Bismarck and Wilhelmine Germany; the bloody First World War and the resulting Weimar Republic; the rise of Hitler's Nazi Party, the Second World War and the Holocaust; life in the two Germanys during the Cold War; and finally Germany's reunification and new place on the European and world maps. The course will be formed around documents, historical studies, memoirs and films.
3394	HIST-299-01	Historiography	1.00	LEC	Figueroa,Luis A.	TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM	TBA		HUM
		Enrollment limited to 15
		This course open to History majors only.
		A study of the character and range of activities undertaken by historians. Students will critically evaluate the way in which historians treat evidence and draw conclusions. Topics considered will include an introduction of some of the subdisciplines within the field and an examination of a number of important exchanges on matters of substance and method currently under debate among historians.
3179	HIST-300-01	History Workshop	1.00	SEM	Kete,Kathleen	MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM	TBA		WEB
		Enrollment limited to 15
		This course open to History majors only.
		The Workshop seminar combines extensive readings on the topic of the seminar with a substantial research paper involving the use of primary source materials and original analysis.
3297	HIST-301-01	Modern Britain & Imperial Cult	1.00	SEM	Regan-Lefebvre,Jennifer M.	MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM	TBA
		Enrollment limited to 15
		This seminar will explore the ways in which British culture and society have been shaped by its past global empire, from the mid-eighteenth century through the present day. Some of our discussions will center around consumables like sugar, silk and rubber, to investigate how the Empire influenced what people ate, drank and wore. We will consider how Empire shaped public spaces through monuments, zoos and exhibitions, and how it inspired public debates about race, women, Christianity and civic responsibility. We will conclude by analysing the effects of migration from former colonies to Britain and considering the legacy of the Empire in contemporary British life.
3257	HIST-312-01	Korea & Japan in Hist Perspect	1.00	SEM	Bayliss,Jeffrey	M: 1:15PM-3:55PM	TBA		GLB2
		Enrollment limited to 15
		This course provides an overview of the history of relations between Korea and Japan, within the shifting contexts of imperialism and post-colonialism. Through extensive readings and class discussions, students will also gain a detailed understanding of the historiography of Korean-Japanese relations and the debates that still inform the ways the Japanese and Koreans – both North and South – view one another today. Students will produce a significant historiographical essay on a topic to be decided upon in consultation with the instructor. No prior coursework in Korean or Japanese history is required, but students with no background in the histories of Korea and Japan will be required to do additional reading to obtain a better understanding of the historical contexts encountered in the regular readings.
3173	HIST-334-01	Provinces of Roman Empire	1.00	LEC	Reger,Gary	TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM	TBA		GLB2
		Enrollment limited to 15
		A history of the first two centuries of the provinces of the Roman Empire, including the processes of acquisition and Romanization and the survival of regional cultures. Important themes include social conditions, economic opportunities, and religious and political change. Extensive use of archaeological evidence.
2694	HIST-344-01	America's Most Wanted	1.00	SEM	Greenberg,Cheryl	MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM	TBA		HUM
		Enrollment limited to 15
		Americans are fascinated by crime. We read detective fiction, watch police dramas, and hold murder mystery dinners. When the crimes are real, we debate guilt or innocence, punishment or rehabilitation, death penalty or life in prison at our dinner tables. Why this fascination, and what does it tell us about our culture and our concerns? In this course we examine several actual crimes and try to understand what made these crimes, and not others, so riveting. What drew us in? What kept us there? Along the way we will also discuss changing police and penal practices, how attitudes about race, class, religion, and gender play into public fixations on particular crimes, and how and why those attitudes shifted over time.
3172	HIST-354-01	Civil War and Reconstr	1.00	SEM	Gac,Scott	MW: 1:15PM-2:30PM	TBA		HUM
		Enrollment limited to 15
		This course examines not only the military dimensions of the war years but also such topics as politics in the Union and the Confederacy, the presidential leadership of Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, women in the Union and Confederate war efforts, and the struggle over emancipation. The latter part of the course considers post-war political, social, and economic developments, including nearly four million African Americans' transition from slavery to freedom, the conflict over how to reconstruct the former Confederate states, the establishment of bi-racial governments in those states, and the eventual overthrow of Reconstruction by conservative white "Redeemers." Lectures and discussions.
3176	HIST-363-01	Living on Margins of Mod Japn	1.00	LEC	Bayliss,Jeffrey	W: 1:15PM-3:55PM	TBA		GLB2
		Enrollment limited to 15
		This course explores the histories and identities of groups that, for a variety of reasons, have not been considered part of “mainstream” Japanese society. Among these are ethnic minorities, such as the Ainu, Okinawans, and resident Koreans, and social minorities, such as the descendants of former outcastes groups who are referred to collectively as the Burakumin. In addition to these groups, we will also explore the nature of groups viewed as outside of the mainstream by dint of the lifestyle they lead or the circumstances that have been forced upon them, such as the yakuza (gangsters), ultra-rightwing activists, residents of slums, and others. Through such an exploration, we will come to challenge the perception, all-too-common both inside and outside of Japan, that Japanese society is homogeneous. We will also look into how this illusion of homogeneity has been constructed, and what the consequences are for those who find themselves marginalized in the process.
3395	HIST-383-01	Sports, Race & Nationalism	1.00	SEM	Figueroa,Luis A.	W: 1:15PM-3:55PM	TBA	Y	GLB
		Enrollment limited to 15
		An examination of the how sports emerged as a major sphere of society and international politics since the late 19th century and how capitalism, race, ethnicity and nationalism have played a major role in this story. We will focus our attention mainly on baseball, basketball, soccer, cricket, and “mega” sporting events, such as the Olympics and FIFA’s World Cup, with case studies from around the world. Additional attention will be given also to the interplay between sports and mega sporting events, on the one hand, and urbanization, urbanism and urban life, on the other. This course counts for both the History and INTS majors (“Global Core” in INTS). For more information, please visit the course blog at = http://sportshistory.trincoll.edu
2377	HIST-399-01	Independent Study	1.00 - 2.00	IND	TBA	TBA	TBA	Y
		Enrollment limited to 100
		Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office, and the approval of the instructor and chairman are required for enrollment.
2378	HIST-466-01	Teaching Assistant	0.50 - 1.00	IND	TBA	TBA	TBA	Y
		Enrollment limited to 100
		Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office, and the approval of the instructor and chairman are required for enrollment.
2055	HIST-498-01	Sr Thesis Part 1 & Seminar	2.00	IND	Euraque,Dario A.	TBA	TBA	Y
		Enrollment limited to 10
		A two-semester senior thesis including the required research seminar in the fall term. Permission of the instructor is required for Part I.
2419	HIST-940-01	Independent Study	1.00	IND	TBA	TBA	TBA	Y
		Enrollment limited to 100
		Independent studies on selected topics are available by arrangement with the instructor and written approval of the graduate adviser, and department chair. Contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the special approval form.
2418	HIST-953-01	Research Project	1.00	IND	TBA	TBA	TBA	Y
		Enrollment limited to 100
		The graduate director, the supervisor of the project, and the department chair must approve special research project topics. Conference hours are available by appointment. Contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the special approval form. One course credit.
2228	HIST-954-01	Thesis Part I	2.00	IND	TBA	TBA	TBA	Y
		Enrollment limited to 100
		Thesis Part I is an investigation and report on an original research topic. Conference hours are available by appointment. Registration for the thesis will not be considered final without the thesis approval form and the signatures of the thesis adviser, graduate adviser, and department chair. Please refer to the Graduate Studies Catalog for thesis requirements. Contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the special approval form and the thesis writer's packet. Two course credits. (The two course credits are considered pending in Part I of the thesis; they will be awarded with the completion of Part II.)
2229	HIST-955-01	Thesis Part II	2.00	IND	TBA	TBA	TBA	Y
		Enrollment limited to 100
		Continuation of History 954. Two course credits.
2230	HIST-956-01	Thesis	2.00	IND	TBA	TBA	TBA	Y
		Enrollment limited to 100
3342	AMST-423-01	The History of American Sports	1.00	SEM	Goldstein,Warren	T: 6:30PM-9:30PM	TBA		HUM
		Enrollment limited to 7
		This course will examine American sports from their beginnings in Puritan-era games to the multi-billion-dollar industries of today. We will begin by looking at the relationship between work, play, and religion in the colonies. We will trace the beginnings of horseracing, baseball, and boxing, and their connections to saloons, gambling, and the bachelor subculture of the Victorian underworld. We will study the rise of respectable sports in the mid- and late 19th century; follow baseball as it became the national pastime; see how college football took over higher education; and account for the rise of basketball. We will look at sports and war, sports and moral uplift, and sports and the culture of consumption. Finally, we will examine the rise of mass leisure, the impact of radio and television, racial segregation and integration, the rise of women’s sports, battles between players and owners in the last 25 years, and the entrance of truly big money into professional sports. Readings in primary and secondary sources will emphasize the historical experience of sports in the United States so that students can develop a framework for understanding current events, including the NHL lockout, the Kobe Bryant affair, and the controversies over steroids.
3341	AMST-823-01	The History of American Sports	1.00	SEM	Goldstein,Warren	T: 6:30PM-9:30PM	TBA		HUM
		Enrollment limited to 8
		This course will examine American sports from their beginnings in Puritan-era games to the multi-billion-dollar industries of today. We will begin by looking at the relationship between work, play, and religion in the colonies. We will trace the beginnings of horseracing, baseball, and boxing, and their connections to saloons, gambling, and the bachelor subculture of the Victorian underworld. We will study the rise of respectable sports in the mid- and late 19th century; follow baseball as it became the national pastime; see how college football took over higher education; and account for the rise of basketball. We will look at sports and war, sports and moral uplift, and sports and the culture of consumption. Finally, we will examine the rise of mass leisure, the impact of radio and television, racial segregation and integration, the rise of women’s sports, battles between players and owners in the last 25 years, and the entrance of truly big money into professional sports. Readings in primary and secondary sources will emphasize the historical experience of sports in the United States so that students can develop a framework for understanding current events, including the NHL lockout, the Kobe Bryant affair, and the controversies over steroids.
2301	ITAL-236-01	Modern Italy	1.00	LEC	Alcorn,John	MWF: 11:00AM-11:50AM	TBA		GLB2
		Enrollment limited to 15
		NOTE: 5 seats are reserved for students who are Italian majors or Italian Studies minors. 10 seats are open for all other students.
		An introduction to modern Italy, through discussion of outstanding works of history, social science, film, and literature. Topics include the unification of Italy, the sharp changes in relations between church and state, the Great Emigration, Fascism, modernization, the Sicilian mafia, and the persistence of regional divisions. All work is done in English. Students who wish to count this course toward a major in Italian should request permission of the instructor. They will complete their assignments in Italian and will meet with the instructor in supplementary sessions. (Listed as both LACS 233-08 and ITAL 236-01; and under the History Department.)
3302	JWST-230-01	Jewish Response to Holocaust	1.00	LEC	Patt,Avinoam J.	TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM	TBA
		Enrollment limited to 25
		This class explores Jewish responses to the Holocaust in an interdisciplinary manner through an examination of social, religious, theological, political, cultural, psychological, and literary responses to the Holocaust during and after WWII. Students will examine sources that reflect on the ways Jews sought to maintain religious observance under Nazi occupation, the moral and ethical dilemmas Jews confronted daily during the war, and the many forms of resistance to persecution – from armed resistance to spiritual, cultural, psychological, and philosophical forms of resistance to persecution. Class sessions will also study attempts to document the war both under occupation and in its aftermath, memorialization, the nature of psychological responses to trauma and persecution, and theological and religious explanations of the meaning of the Holocaust in its aftermath.

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