Each semester, the History Department publishes a student handbook that includes expanded course descriptions, cross-listed courses, five-college courses offered by History faculty, brief faculty biographies, and other information of interest to majors and minors. To access these courses, click on the Student Handbook Fall 2013 link.
History Department Courses 2013-2014
Fall 2013
HST206 (C) Aspects of Ancient History
Topic: Rome: Majesties and Miseries in the Late Empire
Frederick McGinness
HST208 (L) Making of the Modern Middle East
Nadya Sbaiti
HST211 (L) Emergence of China
Daniel Gardner
HST218/EAS218 (C) Thought and Art in China
Topic: Confucian and Taoist Thought and Art
Daniel Gardner, Marylin Rhie
HST225 (L) History of the High Middle Ages
Joshua Birk
Jennifer Hall-Witt
HST241 (L) Soviet Union in the Cold War
Sergey Glebov
HST252 (L) Women and Gender in Modern Europe
Darcy Buerkle
HST258 (L) Modern Africa Since 1800
Jeffrey Ahlman
HST259 (C) Aspects of African HistoryTopic: Women in African Colonial Histories
Jeffrey Ahlman
HST260/LAS260 (L) Colonial Latin America, 1492-1821
Ann Zulawski
HST266 (L) The Age of American Civil War
Robert Weir
HST278 (L) Women in the United States Since 1865
Jennifer Guglielmo
HST313 (S) Problems in East Asian History
Topic: Women and Gender in Early Modern East Asia
Marnie Anderson
HST350 (S) Modern Europe
Topic: Gender and Histories of the Holocaust
Darcy Buerkle
HST361 (S) Problems in the History of Spanish America and Brazil
Topic: Public Health and Social Change in Latin America, 1850-Present
Ann Zulawski
HST383 (S) Sophia Smith Collection
Jennifer Guglielmo
HST390 (S) Teaching History
Peter Gunn
Cross Listed Courses
AAS 117 History of Afro-American People to 1960
Louis Wilson
AAS 289 Feminism, Race and Resistance: History of Black Women in America
Paula Giddings
AAS 370 (S) Modern South Africa
Louis Wilson
EAS 100 (L) Introduction to Modern East Asia
Marnie Anderson
EAS 215 (L) Pre-modern Korean History: Public Lives, Private Stories
Jina Kim
First-Year Seminar 142 Reacting to the Past
Joshua Birk
LAS 201 (S) Environment and Society in the History of Latin America
Daniel Rodriguez
REL233 Jews and Modernity: A Global Diaspora
Lois Dubin
Five College Courses
Amherst College
HIST 232 [EU] and EUST 242 European Intellectual History in the 20th Century
Sergey Glebov
Mount Holyoke College
HST305 Middle East and World War One
Nadya Sbaiti
Spring 2014
HST101 (C) Introduction to Historical Inquiry
Topic: Memory and History
Darcy Buerkle
HST209 (C) Apsects of Middle Eastern History
Topic: Women and Gender in the Middle East
Nadya Sbaiti
HST212 (L) China in Transformation, 750-1900
Daniel Gardner
HST217 (L) World War Two in East Asia: History and Memory
Marnie Anderson
HST226 (L) Renaissance & Reformation
Josh Birk
HST227 (C) Aspects of Medieval European History
Topic: Magic in the Middle Ages
Josh Birk
HST239 (L) Imperial Russia, 1650-1917
Sergey Glebov
HST253 (L) Women and Gender in Contemporary Europe
Darcy Buerkle
HST261/LAS261 (L) National Latin America, 1821 to the Present
Ann Zulawski
HST263 (C) Continuity and Change in Spanish America and Brazil
Topic: Latin America and the United States
Ann Zulawski
HST265 (L) Race, Gender and U.S. Citizenship, 1776-1861
Elizabeth Pryor
HST267 (L) The United States Since 1898
Robert Weir
HST270 (C) Aspects of American History
Topic: Race in the Atlantic World
Elizabeth Pryor
HST270 (C) Aspects of American History
Topic: Cross-Cultural Captivity in North America, 1500-1860
Neal Salisbury
HST280 (C) Inquiries into United States Social History
Topic: Globalization Im/migration and Transnational Cultures
Jennifer Guglielmo
HST289 (C) Aspects of Women’s History
Topic: Women in Higher Education: Smith College Historical Context
Jennifer Hall-Witt
HST355 (S) Topics in Social History
Topic: Interrogating Gandhi Beyond the Myth of the Mahatma
Uditi Sen
HST358 (S) Debating the African Past
Jeffrey Ahlman
Cross Listed Courses
AAS 278 The 60s: A History of Afro-Americans in the United States from 1954 to 1970
Louis Wilson
AAS 335 (S) Free Blacks in the U.S. Before 1865
Louis Wilson
EAS 219 (L) Modern Korean History
Jina Kim
EAS 220 (C) Environment and Society in Contemporary China
Daniel Gardner
LAS 201 (C) Colloqium in Latin American and Latino/a Studies
Topic: Methods and Practice in Latin American History
Daniel Rodriguez
LAS 301 Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Cuban History
Daniel Rodriguez
5 College Courses
Amherst College
HIST235 [EU] and EUST245 Stalin and Stalinism
Sergey Glebov
Mount Holyoke College
HST111 The Modern Middle East
Nadya Sbaiti
Smith College Catalogue
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Five College Course Guide
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