An interdisciplinary course addressing issues in contemporary feminist theory (such as intersections of race and gender, the body, ideology and representation, sexuality, etc.).

Provides graduate students the opportunity to engage in independent faculty-directed research in Gender and Women's Studies.

European politics, society, and culture through the Age of Religious Conflict.

Presents the interactions of science and technology with the social and cultural development of Western civilization; the values in scientific inquiry as compared with other kinds of inquiry; the importance of science and technology in modifying social organization and human expectations. Emphasizes the period since the Industrial Revolution.

American History from 1877 to the present: political, economic and social - Gilded Age, Progressive Era, New Deal, Age of Affluence and Limits, Great Society and two Great Wars. You will find out how much, how little, America has lived up to its ideals; how it grew from a nation of farms and cotton mills to an industrial giant; how it became a world power (Top Nation) and what problems this created.

Examines the connections between Europe, Africa, and the Americas from 1492 to the present day, focusing especially on the legacies of slavery, race, and imperialism in Central America and the Caribbean.

Covers the conquests of Alexander the Great, and the main features of the Hellenistic world, the Roman Republic, and the Roman Empire to the death of Constantine.

Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's. The rise of segregation and the ghetto and aspects of race relations are examined.

What we think of today as East Asia has a long history of both shared culture and separate experiences. In premodern East Asia, cultural contacts led to commonalities including systems of writing and ways of thought such as Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism. In modern times and in becoming nations, China, Japan, and Korea each sought their own identity. The reforms and revolutions that Asia has experienced since 1600 can be viewed both in the context of the region and through the experience of each nation.

An introduction to the skills of historical research writing. Preferably to be taken during the sophomore year. Required of all history majors.