History (HS)
HS-CPE History Comprehensive ExamCredits: None
Term Offered: All Terms
Course Type(s): None
History Comprehensive Exam. This is a pass/fail course.
HS-THD Thesis DefenseCredits: None
Term Offered: All Terms
Course Type(s): None
History Thesis Defense. This is a pass/fail course.
HS-501 Historical CriticismCredits: 3
Term Offered: Spring Term
Course Type(s): None
History as a scholarly discipline, with emphasis on historical interpretation and philosophy since Classical Antiquity, the evaluation of sources, and the rules of critical analysis. A research paper will be required.
HS-502 The Philosophy of HistoryCredits: 3
Term Offered: Spring Term
Course Type(s): None
Analysis and appraisal of representative writings and philosophies of great historians from Classical Antiquity to modern times, reflecting the development of history as a scholarly discipline.
HS-503 Introduction to the Study of World HistoryCredits: 3
Term Offered: Fall Term
Course Type(s): HSNW, HSWLD
Introduces students to the growing field of World History, surveying the developments in the field since the nineteenth century. Examines key concepts and methods, and explores major themes and categories of analysis, including empire, nationalism, gender, and law. Required of all students in the World History specialization.
HS-504 Ancient Civilizations of Native AmericaCredits: 3
Term Offered: Fall Term
Course Type(s): HSNW
Cultural developments in Mesoamerica and the Central Andes from the development of agriculture to the Spanish conquest, focusing on Inca and Aztec civilizations; theoretical exploration of developmental similarities between the two regions. Also listed as AN-504.
HS-505 U.S. Women's HistoryCredits: 3
Term Offered: Fall Term
Course Type(s): HSUS
Explores U.S. Women's History and focuses on how women of different socioeconomic backgrounds, races, and ethnic groups have experienced cultural transformations and political change. Emphasis will be on the significance of citizenship, political agency, the cultural construction of race and gender, and reproductive rights.
HS-506 Historical ArcheologyCredits: 3
Term Offered: Fall Term
Course Type(s): HSUS
An intensive introduction to historical and industrial archeology (c. 1492+). Topics covered include exploration, imperialism, colonization, industrialization and urbanism. Archeological field methods and the interpretation of material culture are also introduced. Also listed as AN-506.
HS-510 Seminar in American HistoryCredits: 3
Term Offered: All Terms
Course Type(s): HSUS
Selected topics in American history, with emphasis on techniques of independent historical research and writing.
HS-511 Readings on American Colonial HistoryCredits: 3
Term Offered: Spring Term
Course Type(s): HSUS
Readings in recent writings in monographs and periodicals devoted to social, economic, and political aspects of American colonial history.
HS-512 American Revolution and Constitutional Issues, 1763-1789Credits: 3
Term Offered: All Terms
Course Type(s): HSUS
Problems of Empire; the causes, course, and consequences of the American Revolution; the continuing revolution within the states and under the Articles of Confederation; and postwar struggles resulting in the adoption of the Constitution.
HS-515 The Civil War and ReconstructionCredits: 3
Term Offered: All Terms
Course Type(s): HSUS
The economic, social, and political forces in the United States during the years 1850-1877 relating to the onset, nature, and impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and the Black Revolution.
HS-516 Readings on Populism and Progressivism in AmericaCredits: 3
Term Offered: All Terms
Course Type(s): HSUS
A critical analysis of the reform impulses of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with an emphasis on the various schools of interpretation.
HS-517 Readings on Modern America, 1933-PresentCredits: 3
Term Offered: All Terms
Course Type(s): HSUS
Readings of pertinent historical literature (monographs and journal articles) dealing with United States history since the administration of F.D. Roosevelt.
HS-518 United States Family HistoryCredits: 3
Term Offered: Fall Term
Course Type(s): HSUS
This seminar explores United States Family History and the social construction of the family, its many diverse forms, and the relationship between society and the family. Analyzing issues of race, class, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality will further enable us to consider the history of the family form. We will cover such diverse topics as the history of adoption, courtship, and divorce.
HS-520 Field Methods ArchCredits: 3
Term Offered: Summer Term
Course Type(s): None
An introduction to archaeological field methods: survey and excavation. Students will also learn excavation procedures, descriptive note writing, and drawing, and be introduced to archaeological photography, mapping, reporting, conservation and curation. Supervised fieldwork will be conducted on archaeological sites. Also listed as AN-520.
HS-521 "All the Livelong Day": The Meaning of Work in Modern AmericaCredits: 3
Term Offered: Fall Term
Course Type(s): HSUS
Examination of content changes in the meaning of work in America through the twentieth century.
HS-522 History Urbanization in AmericaCredits: 3
Term Offered: All Terms
Course Type(s): HSUS
Provides an interdisciplinary study of the history of urbanization and industrialization in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. Using the themes of community, technology, public policy, and immigration, students will examine the development and changes in the social, physical, political, and economic urban landscape. Also listed as PS-522.
HS-524 Twentieth Century United States Political HistoryCredits: 3
Term Offered: All Terms
Course Type(s): HSUS
Examines the twentieth century evolution of liberalism and conservatism, campaigns and elections, and congress and the presidency; considers critical elections, consensus and dissent, and the status of political rights through the progressive period, the Republican ascendancy, the New Deal, the Second World War, the Cold War, and Post-Cold War period.
HS-525 World War IICredits: 3
Term Offered: All Terms
Course Type(s): HSEU, HSUS
Considers the military, economic, and political characteristics of the Allied and Axis powers and the strategies they produced; examines the military campaigns, the wartime economics, life on the home fronts, the experience of combat, the dynamics of occupation, and the roles of morality and immorality in the conduct of the war.
HS-526 The Cold WarCredits: 3
Term Offered: All Terms
Course Type(s): HSEU, HSUS, HSWLD
Examines the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union that organized global politics for forty-five years; the roles of ideology, economy, and security that fueled it; the diplomacy, propaganda, and armed might used to wage it; and the impact it had on participants' politics and culture.
HS-527 United States Military HistoryCredits: 3
Term Offered: All Terms
Course Type(s): HSUS
Surveys the American experience of war, from the first Native American-European contact through the military interventions at the dawn of the twenty first century; examines not only the major conflicts in this period, but also the evolution of strategy, military institutions, civil-military relations, and the "American way of war."
HS-528 History of Consumerism in AmericaCredits: 3
Term Offered: Spring Term
Course Type(s): HSUS
A seminar that explores the origins of the consumer culture and the multitude of ways in which it has shaped American society. We consider both the reverence of and the critiques of consumerism, analyzing race, class, gender, ethnicity, and geography in our consideration of consumer ideology and practices. Advertising, marketing, sales, and the consumer will all be considered in our analysis of the history of consumerism.
HS-529 History of Sexuality in AmericaCredits: 3
Term Offered: All Terms
Course Type(s): HSUS
A seminar that explores the cultural history of sexuality in the United States. We will consider how race, class, and gender have influenced ideas about sexuality, morality, and power. Major topics include prostitution; reproduction; gay, lesbian, and transgender sexualities; sexually transmitted diseases; and sexual representation and censorship. Working with monographs, scholarly articles, and primary sources that come from throughout American history, we will explore the ways in which sexuality has both shaped and been affected by this nation's history.
HS-530 New Jersey HistoryCredits: 3
Term Offered: All Terms
Course Type(s): HSUS
A study of New Jersey history especially as a venue for exploring general trends in American history. Topics covered include New Jersey's Native Americans, colonial settlement, the proprietary government, agricultural unrest, the American Revolution, Federalism, slavery, industrialization, urbanization and suburbanization.
HS-531 Studies in Ancient HistoryCredits: 3
Term Offered: Fall Term
Course Type(s): HSEU
Readings and discussion of principal aspects of Graeco-Roman culture, with emphasis on the contribution of Classical Antiquity to Western Civilization and recent research in the field.
HS-532 Native American History and PrehistoryCredits: 3
Term Offered: Fall Term
Course Type(s): HSNW, HSWLD
Examines North America's native people in the area north of the Rio Grande. It combines North American prehistory with a historical overview of Native American experiences since contact. Evidence from archaeology, oral histories, and written sources are all presented. Challenges facing modern Native Americans are also examined. Also listed as AN-532.
HS-533 The History of Public Policy in the United StatesCredits: 3
Term Offered: Fall Term
Course Type(s): HSUS
The objective is to survey major issues in domestic public policy. The emphasis is on changes in the process of policy formation in both the public and private sectors. Also listed as PS-533.
HS-535 The RenaissanceCredits: 3
Term Offered: All Terms
Course Type(s): HSEU
Europe in transition from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century; the crisis of the church, humanism and art, politics and diplomacy, exploration and discovery, science and the occult.
HS-536 The ReformationCredits: 3
Term Offered: All Terms
Course Type(s): HSEU
A study of sixteenth and early seventeenth century religious and political developments in Europe; causes of the Reformation, its political and social institutionalization, ideas of reformers, wars of religion, and the counter-Reformation.
HS-537 Power and Enlightenment: Europe 1648-1789Credits: 3
Term Offered: Summer Term
Course Type(s): HSEU, HSPRE
A study of European history from the Treaty of Westphalia to the French Revolution, emphasizing the contrast between political and military developments and cultural and intellectual trends. Special emphasis on the development of absolutism in France, Prussia, Austria, Spain, and Russia; the struggle against absolutism in Britain, Sweden, and the Netherlands; and the ideals and goals of the European enlightenment, developing social and political tensions, and enlightened despotism.
HS-541 Graduate Seminar in European HistoryCredits: 3
Term Offered: All Terms
Course Type(s): HSEU
Selected topics in European history, with emphasis on techniques of independent historical research and writing.
HS-542 French RevolutionCredits: 3
Term Offered: Spring Term
Course Type(s): HSEU
The causes of the Revolution; its relationship to the Enlightenment; the political, economic, social, and cultural consequences of the moderate phase and of the Terror.
HS-544 The German Empire, 1871-1914Credits: 3
Term Offered: All Terms
Course Type(s): HSEU
The unification of the Empire; the political and social settlement imposed by Bismarck; the domestic crisis preceding World War I.
HS-545 World War ICredits: 3
Term Offered: Spring Term
Course Type(s): HSEU
The international and domestic causes of the Great War; its political, economic, social, cultural, and psychological consequences in Britain, France, and Germany; its role in the birth of the modern age.
HS-546 The Weimar Republic, 1918-1933Credits: 3
Term Offered: All Terms
Course Type(s): HSEU
The foundation of the first German republic as an outcome of revolution and defeat in war; its political and cultural innovations; the causes of its collapse.
HS-547 The Third ReichCredits: 3
Term Offered: Fall Term
Course Type(s): HSEU
The ideological origins of Nazism; the consolidation and character of Nazi rule; the relation of Hitler with the German people; Nazism as revolution.
HS-551 Graduate Seminar in British HistoryCredits: 3
Term Offered: All Terms
Course Type(s): HSEU
Selected topics in modern English and British history, with emphasis on techniques of historical research.
HS-553 Tudor-Stuart EnglandCredits: 3
Term Offered: Fall Term
Course Type(s): HSEU
The political, religious, social, and cultural history of England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: Tudor absolutism, the English Reformation, the rise of Puritanism, social and economic change, the conflict between crown and Parliament, the English Civil War, and the Revolution of 1688.
HS-561 Twentieth Century Russia and the Soviet UnionCredits: 3
Term Offered: Fall Term
Course Type(s): HSEU
Studies in the transformation of Russian society, with emphasis on the revolutionary movements and the economic, social, and political institutions of Soviet Russia.
HS-562 History of Maps and MappingCredits: 3
Term Offered: All Terms
Course Type(s): HSEU, HSNW, HSWLD
Students will study the historical developments in cartographic technique, the development of mapping in different parts of the world, and the future of mapping in the computer age. Students will focus on the ways the events and ideology of a time period influence maps and mapping, and how in turn mapping influences history and ideology. Also listed an AN-562.
HS-563 Twentieth Century East Central EuropeCredits: 3
Term Offered: Spring Term
Course Type(s): HSEU
The political, economic, and social development of the lands between Germany and Russia, emphasizing the breakdown of the Ottoman and Hapsburg empires, the rise of the independent successor states between the wars, the Soviet takeover in the post-war era, and the development of "national" communism and polycentrism.
HS-572 The History of TourismCredits: 3
Term Offered: Fall Term
Course Type(s): HSEU, HSWLD
Students will study the history of tourism in different parts of the world from political, social, cultural, geographic, and economic perspectives. This will include an examination of historical differences in tourist attractions, tourist behaviors, and impacts on tourist destinations and their people. Students will also study how historical memory and interpretation shapes the contemporary tourist experience, as well as questions concerning authenticity and tourism. Also listed as AN-572.
HS-573 Ecological ImperialismCredits: 3
Term Offered: All Terms
Course Type(s): HSWLD
Ecological History will examine the relationship between human society(ies) and the natural world over recorded time. As an interdisciplinary exercise this class will draw on the natural sciences, anthropology, and history to better understand the biological, cultural, imperial, ethical, economic, religious, political, and global ramifications of the relationship between humanity and humanity's "natural" surroundings. Also listed as AN-573.
HS-575 Civilization of the AndesCredits: 3
Term Offered: All Terms
Course Type(s): HSNW, HSWLD
Survey of Andean history from the beginning of human settlement through the Inca Empire and the Spanish conquest to contemporary peasant society. The evolution and nature of pre-Columbian civilizations, focusing on Chavin, Paracas-Nazca, Huari-Tiahuanaco, Chimor, and the Inca. The social and political organization of the Inca Empire. The Spanish conquest and its impact on native culture. Contemporary social changes; rural migration and the transformation of contemporary Andean society. Theoretical exploration of the developmental trajectory of Andean civilization. Also listed as AN-575.
HS-581 Seminar in East Asian HistoryCredits: 3
Term Offered: Fall Term
Course Type(s): HSNW
A study of selected topics in Chinese or Japanese history, with emphasis on techniques of historical research.
HS-585 Seminar in African HistoryCredits: 3
Term Offered: All Terms
Course Type(s): HSNW
Analysis and appraisal of colonialism in Africa, reflecting on the political, economic, and sociocultural transformations, that occurred in Africa between 1880 and 1960. Also listed as AN-585.
HS-587 Nationalism in AfricaCredits: 3
Term Offered: Fall Term
Course Type(s): HSNW, HSWLD
Examines a major episode that transformed the political history of Africa in the twentieth century. It discusses how nationalism became an instrument of political change that led to the independence of African states. Begins by examining the concept of nationalism in Europe, how it was applied in Africa, and how it contributed to the struggle for independence.
HS-588 Decolonization in Africa 1940-1960Credits: 3
Term Offered: Fall Term
Course Type(s): HSNW, HSWLD
Examines the process of transfer of power from colonial powers to Africans; the emergence of education elites; the rise of nationalism; implications of decolonization; and African expectations of independence.
HS-590 Paris, 1919: A World HistoryCredits: 3
Term Offered: Spring Term
Course Type(s): HSEU, HSWLD
Offers an examination of the Paris Peace Conference following World War I taking into account the ideologies and global themes of the time. Of particular interest, the course will examine nationalism, imperialism, state formation, militarism, and racism.
HS-591 Graduate Seminar in the Modern History of Islamic PeoplesCredits: 3
Term Offered: All Terms
Course Type(s): HSNW
Selected topics in Islamic history in the Middle East, North Africa, and some areas of the Balkan Peninsula; political, social, and intellectual change, the rise of nation states, and cultural interaction with the West.
HS-595 History Internship/PracticumCredits: 3
Prerequisite: Completion of twelve graduate credits.
Term Offered: All Terms
Course Type(s): None
Provides graduate students with the opportunity to gain substantive career experience and build specific applied skills by working in outside programs, institutions, agencies and firms engaged in the fields of public history, historical archeology and anthropology and regional geography.
HS-598 Special Topics in HistoryCredits: 3
Term Offered: All Terms
Course Type(s): None
Allows students to study a specific aspect of history. The subject matter varies from semester to semester, and depends on the professor who teaches the course.
HS-599 Independent Study in HistoryCredits: 3
Prerequisite: Prior permission of the directing professor and department chair.
Term Offered: All Terms
Course Type(s): None
Reading and research leading to significant written work under the direction of a member of the History faculty.
HS-690 History Master's ThesisCredits: 3
Term Offered: All Terms
Course Type(s): None
Reading and research leading to significant written work under the direction of a history faculty member, for the completion of the Master's program in the history department. Each thesis will be supervised by a "first reader" and a "second reader". First readers must be full-time faculty with terminal degrees in the field. Registration for thesis credits is completed after a successful defense of a prospectus (thesis proposal). This is a pass/fail course.