Courses - HIST Graduate Level
501. Historical Thinking and the Discipline of History (3)
Prerequisite: Students must be first-semester candidates in the M.A. program in history, candidates in the history B.A. honors program, or M.A. students from another department with consent of the instructor.
Introduces students to skills and dispositions required to succeed in M.A. program. Examines history of profession, professional dispositions of discipline, and key historical thinking skills including historiography, cause and consequence, evidence and interpretation, comparison, agency, and periodization.
A minimum "B" grade is required to continue in the graduate program. Letter grade only (A-F).
502. Historical Research and Writing (3)
Prerequisites: Graduate standing in History or M.A. student from another department with permission of the instructor.
Corequisite: HIST 501.
Introduces research, analytical, and writing skills necessary in History discipline and M.A. program. Focuses on development of skills pertaining to analysis of sources, use of theoretical and conceptual approaches, conduct of research, and presentation of oral reports and written work.
A minimum "B" grade is required to continue in the graduate program. Letter grade only (A-F).
510. Selected Topics in the Literature of History (3)
Reading and discussion of major works and intensive study of bibliography and bibliographical aids. Includes a comparative history component.
Letter grade only (A-F). May be repeated for a maximum of 6 units per field of concentration. Different instructors within a field required when repeated. Repeatable up to 12 units. Topics announced in the Schedule of Classes.
- A. Ancient and Medieval
- B. Modern Europe
- C. Modern Middle East (SW Asia)
- D. Latin America
- E. World
- F. United States
- G. Asia
512. Migration and Ethnicity in Modern China (3)
Prerequisite: Graduate standing
Examines Chinese emigration and internal migration since the seventeenth century, in Southeast Asia, the Americas and Oceania, and Europe. Explores factors that have shaped Chinese emigration and migration in the modern period, as well as impact on world history.
Letter grade only (A-F).
518. Central Asia and Afghanistan, Twentieth Century (3)
Prerequisite: Upper Division Standing.
Introductory survey of the history of change and continuity in Afghanistan and Turkistan (currently Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) during the Twentieth Century.
Letter grade only (A-F).
532./432. Change and Continuity in the Modern Middle East (3)
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
The course covers most important themes and episodes from the 19th century transformations to the 21st Century, including the Arab Uprisings, within their global context. Emphasizes modernity, colonialism, imperialism, decolonization, reform, revolution and other forms of resistance, women’s rights, state building, nationalism, and Islamism.
Grading: Letter grade only (A-F)
540./440. The Silk Roads (3)
Prerequisite: HIST 211 or HIST 131 or consent of undergraduate/graduate advisor.
Examines the Silk Roads from the first century BCE to the end of the fifteenth century CE from a world historical perspective. Emphasis is on economic integration, cultural diffusion, exchange and syncretism, and comparative demographic and political development.
541. Mediterranean World (3)
Prerequisite: Graduate standing in History.
Focus on pre-modern Mediterranean world up to geographical shift of political power and wealth to the Atlantic world with an emphasis on the exchange and interaction of peoples and ideas.
Letter grade only (A-F).
542./442. The Indian Ocean in World History (3)
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing
Examines the Indian Ocean from 600 CE to the nineteenth century from a world historical perspective. Emphasis is on how the Indian Ocean connected diverse regions, societies and polities, and facilitated the circulation and modification of commodities, cultural practices and ideas.
Letter grade only (A-F).
543. The Early Modern Atlantic World (3)
Prerequisite: Graduate standing in History.
Examines early modern Atlantic from a world historical perspective with an emphasis on cultural encounter and exchange, environmental interaction, and comparative colonial development from early Iberian maritime expansion through the Atlantic revolutions and wars of independence.
Letter grade only (A-F).
544./444. The Pacific Ocean in World History (3)
Prerequisite: HIST 211 or HIST 131 or consent of undergraduate/graduate advisor
Examines the Pacific World from the pre-modern period to the twentieth century from a world historical perspective. Emphasis is on how the Pacific Ocean connected diverse regions, societies and polities, and facilitated the circulation and modification of commodities, cultural practices and ideas.
Letter grade only (A-F).
560./460. Slavery in Latin America (3)
Prerequisites: GE Foundation requirements, one or more Exploration courses and upper division standing.
Systems of forced labor in Latin America since European arrival; the slave trade; slavery in economic context; resistance and negotiation; plantations and urban slavery; slaves in the independence wars; manumission and slavery abolition; Afro-latino Americans post slavery.
565. Painting as Power: The Politics of Visual Culture in the Early Modern Spanish Empire (3)
Prerequisites: GE Foundation requirements, one or more Exploration courses, and upper division standing.
Explores the history of the Spanish Empire (Spain and Spanish America) ca. 1500-1800 through the politics of visual culture (paintings, maps, clothing, festivals, architecture.) Historical focus on the social, cultural, and political implications of visual culture. Emphasis on the connections between metropolitan and colonial culture and politics and reading visual culture as historical documentation.
Letter grade only (A-F).
568./468. Public Art, Monuments, and Memory (3)
Prerequisite: GE Foundation requirements, Upper-division standing
HIstorical examination of the role of public art and monuments in shaping civic identity and public memory in the United States. Traces the creative qays that artists and citizens alike have challenged official representations of American history and culture.
577A./477A. American Cultural History (3)
Development of American way of life treated in terms of values, behavior and institutions, themes of individualism, community, ethnic diversity and social reform.
Letter grade only (A-F).
577B./477B. American Cultural History (3)
Development of American way of life treated in terms of values, behavior and institution, themes of individualism, community, ethnic diversity and social reform.
Letter grade only (A-F).
590. Selected Topics in Comparative History (3)
Prerequisite: Graduate standing in History.
Selected themes in history involving cross-cultural and comparative approaches.
Letter grade only (A-F). May be repeated to a maximum of 6 units. Topics announced in the Schedule of Classes
592./492. Proseminar in World History (3)
Prerequisite: Graduate standing in History.
Discussion and analysis of recently published historical works and materials from a world history perspective.
Letter grade only (A-F). May be repeated to a maximum of 6 units.
595. Special Preparation (3)
Prerequisite: Graduate standing; consent of Graduate Advisor.
Special preparation for the M.A. examinations under faculty direction.
May be repeated to a maximum of 6 units. Letter grade only (A-F).
605. Research in History Teaching, Learning, and Cognition (3)
Prerequisite: Graduate standing in History
Examines the extensive recent scholarship in history teaching, learning, and cognition, with an emphasis upon the significance and implementation of historical methodology and thinking in the classroom.
Letter grade only (A-F).
611. Seminars in Ancient and Medieval History (3)
Prerequisite: Graduate standing in History.
Selected topics in ancient or medieval history.
May be repeated to a maximum of 6 units. Letter grade only (A-F).
631. Seminars in European History (including Britain and Russia) (3)
Prerequisite: Graduate standing in History.
Directed reading and research in the political, economic, social and cultural history of Europe.
May be repeated to a maximum of 6 units. Letter grade only (A-F).
663. Seminar in Latin American History (3)
Directed reading and research in history, focusing on selected topics in Latin American history.
May be repeated for a maximum of six units in different semesters. Letter grade only (A-F).
673. Seminars in United States History (3)
Prerequisite: Graduate standing in History.
Topics in domestic or international affairs from colonial times to present.
May be repeated to a maximum of 6 units. Letter grade only (A-F).
682. Seminars in Asian History (3)
Prerequisites: Six units of upper division Asian history or consent of instructor.
Selected topics in Asian history.
May be repeated to a maximum of 6 units in different semesters. Letter grade only (A-F).
695. Directed Readings (1-3)
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Readings on an individual basis.
May be repeated to a maximum of 6 units. Letter grade only (A-F).
697. Directed Research (1-3)
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Research on an individual basis.
Letter grade only (A-F).
698. Thesis (1-4)
Planning, preparation and completion of non-curricular work in history for the master's degree.
