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History

HY104: Culture, Society & History

An introductory survey of human culture and society through the comparison of Europe and one other major area of the world from ancient to the modern period, focusing on fundamental topics in the development of world civilizations, including material culture, political organization, and aesthetics. The course will emphasize critical moments in historical development, thematic connections, and primary textual and visual sources. (Meets either the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques or The West in Time requirement.) 2 units — Murphy.

HY105: Civilization in the West

Western civilization from ancient to modern times. Cultural, social, and political developments that shaped the modern world. The department offers this course in sections designated Europe or Atlantic World. Atlantic World includes the study of the heritage of Western civilization in the Western hemisphere. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: The West in Time requirement.) 2 units — Neel, Pangburn, Ragan.

HY109: Civilization in East Asia

East Asian civilization from ancient to modern times. Cultural, social and political developments that shaped East Asian nations and their place in the modern world. Introduces basics of historical method: contextualization, analysis, and critical evaluation of primary sources and their significance. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Also listed as Asian Studies 118.) 2 units — Williams.

HY110: Historical Studies: Hitler (with Emphasis on Writing)

An introduction to history through the study of a special aspect in depth. (Topics to be designated according to the specialties of the faculty.) (Not open to seniors). Prerequisite: 1st or 2nd year standing or consent of instructor. (Not offered 2009-10.) 1 unit.

HY114: Goddesses, Heroes, Sages and Statesmen: An Introduction to

Prerequisite: FYE Course, Freshmen Only. (Not offered 2009-10.) 2 units.

HY116: Greek History and Philosophy

Aegean and Greek archeological, historical, literary, and philosophical texts, with emphasis on those ideas formative in shaping Western culture. The development and transformations of these ideas as reflected in selected texts from the early Christian era, the Enlightenment or the Modern Age. The rise of individualism and its conflicts with community, ritual relationships to nature vs. separation and exploitation, the relation of theology to the ordering of experience, and how psyche both forms and is formed by its relationships to community, nature, and god(s). (Meets the Critical Perspectives: The West in Time requirement.) (Not offered 2009-10.) 2 units.

HY120: The American Past

Two block course that introduces the full sweep of American History from its pre-contact, "New World" beginnings to the recent past. Students will experience how history is made, understood, revised, and debated. Themes include cultural encounters and adaptation complexities of ethnicity and immigration; movement; the success and failures of republican ideology, capitalism, individualism and community; and the formation of American cultures. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: The West in Time requirement.) 2 units — Hyde, Monroy, Rommel-Ruiz, Torres-Rouff.

HY130: The Reinvention of the Greeks: Identity, Empire and Diaspora

Prerequisite: FYE Course. 1st Years Only. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: The West in Time requirement.) (Not offered 2009-10.) 2 units.

HY131: Civilization in the Middle East

Examines large-scale social structures and the question of 'ordinary' men and women from the seventh century C.E. to the present. Through a range of historical approaches-cultural, intellectual, political and social-and an emphasis on close reading of primary materials, students explore in what ways the histories of Islamic Civilization, Western Civilization, African Civilization, and Central Asian Civilization were connected histories and how people in the Middle East have critiqued their own societies and those of their contemporaries. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Not offered 2009-10.) 2 units.

HY200: Topics in History

Selected topics in the study of history. Specific content and emphasis to be determined by the instructor.

Block 1:	Topics in History: 19th Century Europe. 1 unit — Pangburn.
Block 1:	Topics in History: The Search for Islamic Order: Yesterday and Today. *Prerequisite:* FYE Course. 1st Years Only. Must take Political Science 203 block two for credit. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) 1 unit — Lee.
Block 1:	Topics in History: Islamic Cities. How did Islam, a religion emerging from tribal desert communities, come to be so quickly and closely identified with its urban centers? What does it mean to speak of an 'Islamic City'? In examining the privileged role of urban history within Islamic history, this course will seek to answer these questions and more. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) 1 unit — Murphy.
Block 2:	Topics in History: Freedom and Authority in Everday Life: Women, Men and Children in the Middle East. How do women, men and children experience issues of freedom and authority in their families and everyday lives? How do they express their desires and critiques? Through Michel de Certeau's theory of 'Everyday Life' we'll explore popular culture, rituals and law, questioning what revisions Certeau's theory may need in the context of Middle Eastern societies. In 2009, this course will coincide with a film festival, bringing regional films and directors to the CC campus Oct 16-18. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Also listed as Feminist and Gender Studies 206.) 1 unit — Murphy.
Block 3:	Topics in History: American History, American Cinema: History, Hollywood, and Representing the American Past. 1 unit — Rommel-Ruiz.
Block 4:	Topics in History: Modern U.S. History 1914-1945. Political liberty, cultural expression, and race relations in the aftermath of World War I; changing sexual and racial relations and the anti-modernist response in the 1920s; the Harlem Renaissance; the causes and consequences of the Great Depression and FDR and the New Deal; the coming of World War II. 1 unit — Monroy.
Half-Block:	Topics in History: History and Future of the Book. .5 unit — Lawson, Randall.
Block 5:	Topics in History: Asia in the Archive (taught at Newberry Library). The 19th century expansion of the United States and Europe into East Asia transformed the latter's relationship to the West, ultimately catalyzing revolutionary changes in East Asian societies that marked new stages their own (and world) history. The 1842 Treaty of Nanking concluding the Opium War between Britain and China marked the beginning of a new Western presence in China, while little more than a decade later Commodore Matthew Perry's "black ships" steamed into Edo Bay, initiating a new phase in Japan's relationship to the world. An important aspect of this encounter was the dramatic change in the volume, tone and content of Western representations of East Asia. Missionaries, merchants, diplomats and journalists all lent their efforts to a new tide of print analyzing and interpreting East Asian societies, as well as providing eyewitness accounts of events that were changing the course of history in China, Korea and Japan. Students will use the Newberry Library's holdings of such material to develop a research project on some facet of 19th or 20th century East Asian history. The first week of the course focuses on theoretical readings that will equip students to read these sources critically, contextualizing the discourses of power, race and the Other that frame their construction. Students will then utilize the Newberry's abundant holdings to write a research paper on a topic of their choice. *Prerequisite:* Consent of instructor ~$910 program fee* (taught at Newberry Library). 1 unit — Williams.
Block 5:	Topics in History: The Age of Genius: The Enlightenment through Music and History. Investigates some of the composers, writers, and theorists who made the long eighteenth century an Age of Enlightenment. Focusing on what many scholars have called the "Birth of Modernity," we will explore the broad-based questioning of Old Regime institutions and cultural practices. We will study the works of political theorists, such as Locke, Voltaire, and Kant, writers, including Beaumarchais and Goethe, and composers, such as Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. *Prerequisite:* (One week in Baca). (Also listed as Music 228.) 1 unit — Grace, Ragan.
Block 6:	Topics in History: The Student's Role in the 1960's Southern Civil Rights Movement. Through film, readings, discussion, telephone interviews and class presentations, we will examine the role of students, using the Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) as a case study in the 1960's African American Civil Rights Movement. Topics include: the differences between the student movement and the movement represented by Dr. Martin Luther King, the difference between mobilization and organization, developing indigenous leadership, women's role in the movement, the origins of Black Power and what some former SNCC leaders are doing today to evolve the revolution of the 1960s. (Also listed as Race and Ethnic Studies 200 and Southwest Studies 200.) 1 unit — Varela.
Block 7:	Topics in History: The American City (taught at Newberry Library). Cities have proven to be among the most dynamic and contested spaces in which Americans have made their lives and built community. This course uses the city of Chicago and the extensive collections of the Newberry Library as laboratories in which we'll explore the interaction of people, policy and place in the production and inhabitation of cities. Our examination of the intersection of society, culture, economics, and politics will lead us to consider topics such as westward migration, architecture, transportation, and the World's Fair. Students will get to conduct original research in the Newberry's collections and to create a piece of original scholarship. *Prerequisite:* Consent of instructor ~$910 program fee* (taught at Newberry Library). 1 unit — Torres-Rouff.
Block 7:	Topics in History: Old South. This course surveys the history of the American South from Anglo-American colonial settlement through Reconstruction. Students will examine how we define the Old South and the ways in which this region of the United States increasingly became "southern" over the course of early American history. The class explores academic debates that have defined Southern culture, politics, economy, and society throughout its history, including slavery, race, evangelical Christianity, Jeffersonian agrarian republicanism, gender, and the political economy of "King Cotton." 1 unit — Rommel-Ruiz.
Block 8:	Topics in History: 20th Century Europe. 1 unit — Pangburn.
Block 8:	Topics in History: Recent U.S. History - 1945-1973. Domestic politics and political realignments from Truman to Nixon; McCarthyism and the beginnings of the Cold War Cold War; covert action and direct intervention in US foreign policy; Civil Rights, Black Power, and feminism. 1 unit — Monroy.
Block 8:	Topics in History: History, Literature, and Culture of the Lower Yangzi (in China) This is a two-block history and literature course to be taught in China from block 8 through Summer A block of 2010. The Yangzi river delta is home both to contemporary Shanghai and classic centers of late imperial Chinese culture like Nanjing, Suzhou and Hangzhou, immortalized in the popular Chinese saying "Above there is Heaven, below Suzhou and Hangzhou." This course explores the region's vital cultural, political, economic and literature role in the creation of modern China from the late imperial period to the present. Taught on-site in Nanjing, Suzhou, Shanghai and Hanzhoug, the course provides students a direct experience of contemporary China's connections to its past. This course will also provide students an opportunity to improve their Chinese language. The college will cover most of the travel expenses such as international air fare, visa, partial room and board. Each student is expected to pay $1400 program fee to cover the rest cost of the seven-week trip. (History and Asian Studies will provide up to $500.00 to offset this fee; details TBA.) *Prerequisite:* Consent of instructor Chinese Language 101 Elementary Chinese ~$500 program fee* (taught in China). (Also listed as Chinese Language 250 and Comparative Literature 220 and Asian Studies 250.) 1 unit — Jiang, Williams.

HY209: Topics in Ancient History

Detailed study of a period (such as the end of the Roman Republic or Periclean Athens) or a theme (such as slavery or the rise and fall of the middle class) in Greek and/or Roman history. (Not offered 2009-10.) 1 unit.

HY210: History of Native America

Introduces students to the history of native peoples primarily in North America. The course includes histories of individual native groups as well as the relationship between American Indians and a variety of Europeans from before contact until the present. Examines a variety of primary and secondary materials to see patterns in the ways that Native Americans have been affected by the process of conquest, the ways in which Anglo-Europeans have responded to Native Americans, and in the ways in which American Indians have become a part of and remained apart from "mainstream" American culture. As a broader goal, we also look at the way "history" is made, understood, and used by very different cultural traditions. (Also listed as Race and Ethnic Studies 200 and Southwest Studies 214.) 1 unit — Hyde.

HY211: Crime & Punishment

This course explores the ways the state, church, and the people dealt with crime and viewed justice in Renaissance, early modern, and modern Europe. Attention to topics such as heresy, the witch craze, and treason and to what ordinary and great trials reveal about changing attitudes toward criminal justice. (Not offered 2009-10.) 1 unit.

HY212: American Environmental History

A survey of American history from the perspective of the environment, beginning with the biological and cultural invasion of the New World in 1492 and ending with current environmental problems and their historical roots. Topics include Native American vs. Euro-American views of nature, the impact of changing economic systems on the environment, and the impact of the landscape on various American cultures. (Not offered 2009-10.) 1 unit.

HY213: Foundations of Classical Culture

Athenian Democracy. The Greeks with Near Eastern and Indo-European background. Panhellenic epic and religion, the polis, philosophy, history, tragedy and comedy. Attention throughout to Greek and Latin literary forms, but no knowledge of ancient languages required. Prerequisite: Completion of CP:W required. (Not offered 2009-10.) 1 unit.

HY216: Roman History I: The Ancient Roman Republic

Focus on the development of Rome, from a small city ruled by kings, to a regional power ruled under a Republic. The course will trace Rome's expansion through Italy, its conflict with Carthage and will closely examine the end of the Republic. Individuals discussed will include the Gracchi, generals Marius, Sulla, Pompey, Caesar, and Rome's greatest politician (and author) Cicero. (Also listed as Classics 216.) Prerequisite: Completion of AP:A required. (Not offered 2009-10.) 1 unit.

HY217: American Frontiers

The process of conquering the American continent from 1492 to the present. An examination of the variety of forms that Euro-American conquest took (exploration, religion, economic development, settlement, and military encounter), the impact of conquest on native peoples, the social and economic development of the frontiers, and the lives that people led and lead in places considered frontiers. (Not offered 2009-10.) 1 unit.

HY218: Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia

This two-block course will survey the history of the Eurasian region from Eastern Europe to the Central Asian and Pacific areas of Eurasia, with an important theme being the rise and fall of the Russian Empire, and the rise and fall of the Soviet bloc. The focus throughout will be on the ways in which religious, cultural, and ethnic identities were shaped by, accommodated to, and resisted the construction of national boundaries and identities. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Not offered 2009-10.) 2 units.

HY221: Africa & Europe to 1919

Traditional African states, Portugal and Africa, the slave trade, European conquest, occupation and administration. The African response to the European presence in terms of social change, the origins of a "Europeanized" African elite and the beginnings of modern African politics. - Blasenheim,. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Not offered 2009-10.) 1 unit.

HY222: The Emergence of Modern Africa, 1885 to the Present

Africa and the Berlin Conference, primary and secondary resistance to European colonialism, political independence, conflicts between traditional and modern cultural patterns and ideologies, one-party rule and economic dependence. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Not offered 2009-10.) 1 unit.