HST 102 Western Civ II T, R 12:00-13:50 Prof. Galaty This is a lecture/discussion course for undergraduate students. It will focus on the history of Europe from the late Middle Ages to the early nineteenth century. Major themes include the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, the rise of both royal absolutism and representative institutions, colonialism and international warfare, and the Enlightenment and French Revolution. Completion of HST 101 is not necessary for enrollment in this course. HST 202 U.S. History II M, W 14:00-15:50 Prof. Fulton This is the second term of a two-term general survey of United States history. This term covers the period from Reconstruction to the end of the twentieth century. Completion of HST 201 is not necessary for enrollment in this course. HST 300 Historical Imagination T, R 8:00-9:50 Prof. Belco This course seeks answers to the following questions: What is history? Why is it important? What are the different ways of viewing a historical question? How does one fashion an historical argument? What constitutes good historical writing? This course serves as an introduction to the study of history at the upper division level and is recommended for students beginning their junior year and required before students may register in a HST 407 seminar. HST 313U African History Since 1800 T, R 14:00-15:50 Prof. Senah An upper-division course designed to survey the history of the African continent from 1800 to the present, with emphasis on the era of the Atlantic slave trade, colonial period, independence, and post-independence. Recommended prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of the instructor. HST 315U Greek History MWF 10:15-11:20 Prof. Armantrout A survey of the social, political, economic, and cultural history of the Greeks and their neighbors from their earliest beginnings until the death of Alexander. Recommended prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of the instructor. HST 315U Greek History fully online Prof. Carr A survey of the social, political, economic, and cultural history of the Greeks and their neighbors from their earliest beginnings until the death of Alexander. This course is conducted fully online and is reserved for History majors. Students need to activate an ODIN account before accessing the online content on WebCT; go to www.account.pdx.edu to generate an ODIN account; then use your ODIN name and password to log on to WebCT at webct.pdx.edu. Contact the instructor at carrk@pdx.edu for details on the course format or for permission to register. Recommended prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of the instructor. HST 320U East Asian Civilizations MWF 10:15-11:20 Prof. Walton Foundations of East Asian civilization from perspective of China as dominant civilization in East Asia Interaction between Chinese influence and indigenous traditions in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Attention to major philosophical and religious traditions, such as Confucianism and Buddhism; origins and structure of political institutions; family life and social organization; and literary traditions. Chronological coverage to about 1800. Recommended prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of the instructor. HST 321U Modern East Asia T, R 10:00-11:50 Prof. Ruoff History of East Asia from around 1800, beginning with the Opium Wars in China and the Meiji Restoration in Japan, through postwar state and society in Japan and the People's Republic of China. Some attention to Korea, Vietnam, and Taiwan. Emphasis on concepts of imperialism, Westernization, modernization, and revolution. Recommended prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of the instructor. HST 328 20th Century U.S. History (1932-1960) MWF 12:45-13:50 Prof. Horowitz This course will cover: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal Managerial State; Anti-New Dealers and the Noninterventionist Movement; World War II and the New Order; the Cold War and the National Security State under Truman and Eisenhower; and the Anti-Communist Crusade of the 1950s. Recommended prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of the instructor. HST 337U History of U.S. Cities R 17:30-21:10 on Jan 10, Jan 24, Feb 7, Feb 21, and Mar 6 only, at PCC Cascade Campus Prof. Del Mar This four-credit course will survey the history of U.S. cities from the colonial period to the present. We shall focus on the history of urban political and physical structures, the shifting nature of urban life, and the economic, social, and cultural roles of the nation's cities. Students need to activate an ODIN account before accessing the online content on WebCT; go to www.account.pdx.edu to generate an ODIN account; then use your ODIN name and password to log on to WebCT at webct.pdx.edu. Recommended prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of the instructor. HST 341U Women and Gender in America, 1848-1920 MWF 10:15-11:20 Prof. Schechter This course explores the diverse experiences of women in the United States between 1848 and 1920. Key themes include slavery, emancipation, and Reconstruction; colonialism and resistance; women’s rights and social reform; education and wage labor; immigration/migration; and Victorian and sexual modernism. Recommended prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of the instructor. HST 343U American Family History R 17:30-21:10 on Jan 17, Jan 31, Feb 14, Feb 28, and Mar 13 only, at PSU Portland Campus Prof. Del Mar This four-credit course will survey the history of the U.S. family from pre-contact to the present. We shall focus on the history of childhood, the history of marriage, and gender roles in a variety of cultures. Students need to activate an ODIN account before accessing the online content on WebCT; go to www.account.pdx.edu to generate an ODIN account; then use your ODIN name and password to log on to WebCT at webct.pdx.edu. Recommended prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of the instructor. HST 349 U.S. Indian Policy M 17:30-21:10 Prof. Garrison Examines the history of the United States government’s policy toward the Indian nations of North America. In particular, considers the Indian policies of the European imperial powers, the federal government’s creation and implementation of Indian policy, the conflicts and relationships between tribal nations and the state and federal governments, the origin of the Indian sovereignty movement, and the construction of tribal sovereignty by the state and federal courts of the United States. Recommended prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of the instructor. HST 351U English History II T, R 10:00-11:50 Prof. Crouch This is a lecture/discussion course for undergraduate students. It will survey English history from the mid-seventeenth century to the present. During this period in its history, England was transformed from a rural to an urban society; it gained and then lost control of lands and people around the globe; it experienced a transformation in its political structure from "monarch in parliament" to a constitutional monarchy dominated by parliament and the Prime Minister; its people experienced the industrial revolution and changes in the status of women. This was also a time of wars, including those against France and the American Colonies, as well as the two world wars. Completion of HST 350U is not necessary for enrollment in this course. Recommended prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of the instructor. HST 355U Late Medieval Europe, 1100-1450 T, R 14:00-15:50 Prof. Ott An examination of the late Middle Ages through primary sources with an emphasis on cultural, social, political, and intellectual transformations. Subjects to be treated include the twelfth-century cultural "renaissance," the emergence of the European state and papal monarchy, the rise of religious dissent and antisemitism, the transformation of medieval spirituality, the Crusades, European expansion and external encounters, growth of cities and the university, the debate between faith and reason, the Black Death, and late medieval decline. Recommended prerequisite: upper-division standing. HST 358 Europe from National Unification to European Union T, R 12:00-13:50 Prof. Belco This course covers the history of western and eastern Europe during its “long 20th century”—from the era of national unification to the present. It has been a period of near constant conflict and violence combined with extraordinary resilience and progress for the continent. In addition to studying the major events (Franco-Prussian war, unification of Italy and of Germany, two total wars and their legacies of destruction, revolutions, economic depression, the Cold War, decolonization, the fall of communism and the collapse of the Soviet Union, European unification), socio-political movements (including communism, fascism, Nazism), and persons of the 20th century, we will also consider continuing themes and consequences of nationalism and identity, and more recent, contentious issues of immigration and globalization. Recommended prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of the instructor. HST 386U Middle East in Modern Times II T, R 14:00-15:50 Prof. Grehan A survey of social, cultural, and political trends in the Mid East from 1300 to the present. Middle Eastern industrial society, culture, and nation-states in the 20th century. Recommended prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of the instructor. HST 399 Modern Jewish History T, R 10:00-11:50 Prof. Weingrad Survey of Jewish history from the end of the middle ages to the Holocaust and the creation of the State of Israel. Major readings explore the Jewish encounter with modernity as seen through the life experiences of four individuals: Amos Elon, Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild and His Time; Puah Rakovsky, My Life As A Radical Jewish Woman: Memoirs of a Zionist Feminist in Poland; Victor Klemperer, I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941; Sasson Somekh, Baghdad, Yesterday: The Making of an Arab Jew. (Note: This course is required for the Judaic Studies Minor.) Recommended prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of the instructor. HST 399 Central America Since Independence T, R 12:00-13:50 Prof. Frenkel Course description pending from instructor. Recommended prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of the instructor. HST 407/507 Seminar: Religion and Society in Early Modern England T 14:00-17:00 Prof. Litzenberger This research seminar for advanced undergraduate and graduate students will explore the influence of religion and society in 16th- and 17th-century England. This was the time of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations, and in England this took the form of multiple shifts and swings in English religion between various kinds of Catholicism and various shades of Protestantism. Socially, in this period, the English people and their government had to deal with periods of massive inflation and food shortages, and with growing numbers of poor people crowding the roads, towns and cities of the realm. Meanwhile, the ideas of Renaissance Humanism reached England, introducing new ideas about the individual, language, learning and the family. Religious differences, combined with social and economic stresses, and Renaissance influences, fueled provincial revolts in the 16th century, the English Civil Wars in the 17th, and shifts in gender boundaries, fundamentals of education, and the foundations of power and authority throughout the period. Prerequisite: HST 300 (Historical Imagination). Students who have not already completed HST 300 will need instructor’s permission to register. HST 407/507 Seminar: Japan in 1940 W 10:15-13:15 Prof. Ruoff Course description pending from instructor. Prerequisite: HST 300 (Historical Imagination). Students who have not already completed HST 300 will need instructor’s permission to register. HST 407/507 Seminar: Modern American Social Thought T 18:00-21:00 Prof. Johnson Course description pending from instructor. Prerequisite: HST 300 (Historical Imagination). Students who have not already completed HST 300 will need instructor’s permission to register. HST 407/507 Seminar: Contested Rivers: The Colorado and the Columbia W 18:00-21:00 Prof. Lang This seminar blends historical and geographical methodologies to better understand why rivers often become contested landscapes. Students will be introduced to three river basins in the American West--Columbia, Colorado, and Klamath. The seminar includes readings, discussions, and research reports. Students will research and write a major paper on a river of their choice. Prerequisite: HST 300 (Historical Imagination). Students who have not already completed HST 300 will need instructor’s permission to register. HST 407/507 Seminar: Puerto Rican Women’s History R 14:00-17:00 Prof. Schechter Read recent scholarship and explore primary documents concerning the history of Puerto Rican women both on the island and on the U.S. mainland. Key questions for this course include: how does gender shape immigration, migration, and work? What are the connections among nationalism, colonialism, sexuality, and race? What are the contours of Puerto Rican women's feminism? What are the dynamics of identity, family, and class in the shaping of Puerto Rican cultural nationalism? Spanish language reading competency a help but not a requirement for this class. Prerequisite: HST 300 (Historical Imagination). Students who have not already completed HST 300 will need instructor’s permission to register. HST 410/510 Top: Modern Israel W 17:30-21:10 Prof. Seidel Introduction to Israel from its origin in the national hope of the Jewish people through the development of modern political Zionism to the foundations of the state and its modern history. Topics include modern Israeli political culture, the Arab- Israeli conflict and the current “Peace Process,” Israeli religious life, music and folklore, Jewish identity and the creation of Modern Hebrew and revisionist readings of the founding of the State of Israel. Films, guest speakers, and web-based education are an integral part of the course. (Note: This course fulfills the Israel area requirement for the Judaic Studies Minor.) Recommended prerequisite: upper-division standing. HST 416/516 Topics in Roman History: Pagans and Christians T, R 12:00-13:50 Prof. Carr A study of Greek and Roman polytheism and its interaction with early Christianity up to the time of Julian the Apostate in the fourth century A.D. Topics for discussion will include the Greek oracles and prophets, mystery cults, Eastern religions such as Zoroastrianism and their influence on the West, pagan persecutions of the Christians, and finally Christian persecution of heretics in the fourth century. Recommended prerequisite: HST 316 or upper-division standing. HST 422/522 Topics in Postwar Japanese History T, R 14:00-15:50 Prof. Ruoff Selected themes in Postwar Japanese History, including the Occupation Reforms (1945-52), Japan’s place in the Cold War system, the so-called ‘economic miracle’, development of a mass consumer culture, and US/Japan relations (the maximum number of credits is 12, 4 credits each for three courses with different topics). Recommended prerequisite: HST 321 or upper-division standing. HST 427/527 Topics in History of Science: Darwin and Darwinism T, R 12:00-13:50 Prof. Beyler The development of theory of evolution, as primarily articulated by Charles Darwin, is arguably one of two or three episodes in the history of modern science which have had the deepest and widest-ranging ramifications. Not only has evolutionary theory become foundational for biology, but also generated attention and controversy in a variety of cultural and social domains including the social sciences, philosophy, politics, literature, and religion. Conversely, however, the theory of evolution did not appear out of nowhere, but was itself the product of a specific and complex historical context. This course explores the social, cultural, and scientific context of Darwin’s work, and then considers aspects of the social, cultural, and scientific appropriation and transformation of this work. Recommended prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of the instructor. HST 429/529 Topics in U.S. Cultural History MWF 10:15-11:20 Prof. Horowitz Course description pending from instructor. Recommended prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of the instructor. HST 442 Race, Class, and Gender in the American West fully online course Prof. Del Mar This four-credit course will examine race, class, gender, and environment in the Trans-Mississippi West. Although we'll consider several hundred years of history, much of the course will focus on the twentieth century. This fully online offering will require a substantial amount of reading and writing. This course will be conducted online. Students need to activate an ODIN account before accessing the online content on WebCT; go to www.account.pdx.edu to generate an ODIN account; then use your ODIN name and password to log on to WebCT at webct.pdx.edu. Recommended prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of the instructor. HST 454/554 Topics in Medieval History: Sanctity and Deviance T, R 10:00-11:50 Prof. Ott This course examines the spectrum of medieval belief in the relationship between the natural and supernatural worlds by focusing on two of its extreme, though commonly occurring, points of conjuncture: the bodies and persons of “saints” and “deviants”. Proceeding from the assumption that a culture’s deeply held values and fears—from which often stem its sense of corporate identity—are revealed by those individuals and groups it seeks to lionize or demonize, we will strive to understand the necessity and role of sanctity and deviance within the medieval world, and the inter-relation of the two. Topics to be examined: the construction of sanctity and the evolution of its models; gender and the construction of authority; the body (of women, Jews, homosexuals) as source of anxiety; the formation of Europe as a “persecuting society”; differing and overlapping discourses about deviance and deviants (heretics, Jews, prostitutes, witches), and more. Our overarching concern will be to examine the ways our assumptions about religion and religious belief color our understanding of the past. Recommended prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of the instructor. HST 459/559 Topics in Modern European History: Nationalism in Eastern Europe T, R 10:00-11:50 Prof. Davidova Course description pending from instructor. Recommended prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of the instructor. HST 476 Imperial Russian History R 17:30-21:10 Prof. Braun This course traces the Romanov dynasty and its subjects until its fall. Analysis of primary sources and historiographical debates. Emphasis on political, cultural, and social aspects, especially on the successive attempts at reform, and intellectual self-definition of the nation and its classes. Recommended prerequisite: HST 101, or 354, 355, or upper-division standing. HST 487/587 Palestine and Israel M 17:30-21:10 Prof. Mandaville A critical view of the 19th and 20th century cultural, social, political, economic, factors behind the formation of two modern Middle Eastern nations; Palestine and Israel. Recommended prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of the instructor. HST 495/595 Comparative World History: Islam and Modernity M, W 14:00-15:50 Prof. Grehan A survey of cultural and intellectual trends in the Islamic world since 1700. Classes will concentrate mostly on the history of the Middle East, drawing occasional parallels with other regions such as South Asia. Recommended prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of the instructor. HST 510 Grad Colloquium (1 cred only) W 16:00-17:00 Prof. Belco This course is reserved for MA students in History; all other students must obtain permission of the instructor to register. Department of History Winter 2008 Course Descriptions