Lehman College of the City University of New York
Department of History Curriculum Change
1. Type of Change: Course Description and Title
2. From: HIE 302: The Age of the Reformation. 3 hours, 3 credits. Conditions of life, society, and politics on the eve of the Reformation; abuses in the early sixteenth- century Roman Catholic church and Catholic reform before Luther; Luther's personality and theology; Luther's break from Rome; religious radicalism and peasant revolt as unintended results of Lutheran reform
3. To: HIE 302: Europe in the Renaissance and Reformation. 3 hours, 3 credits. Major developments in Western Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including Renaissance humanism, the rise of the printed book, reformations of religion, overseas exploration and empire.
4. Rationale: The new course description and title include coverage of the Renaissance, which has not been covered in courses presently listed in the Undergraduate Bulletin, and indicates new foci in the historiography of early modern Europe.
5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None
6. Date of Departmental approval: March 11, 2009 Lehman College of the City University of New York
Department of History Curriculum Change
1. Type of Change: Course Description and Title
2. From: HIE 307: Europe Under the Old Regime. 3 hours, 3 credits. Society, politics, and economy in Europe from 1600 to 1789. Enlightened absolutism in France and Prussia; the English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution; changes in the rural economy; the rise of religious enthusiasm; foreign trade and colonial expansion; the rise of the middle classes; the Enlightenment and the origins of the French Revolution
3. To: HIE 307: Europe in the Age of Enlightenment. 3 hours, 3 credits. Society, politics, and economy in Europe from 1689 through the Napoleonic Wars.
4. Rationale: The new course description and title reflects the extension of coverage in HIE 302 to 1700. The narrower focus is warranted owing to the recent rise of a detailed and rich historiography of this period of European history.
5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None
6. Date of Departmental approval: March 11, 2009 Lehman College of the City University of New York
Department of History Curriculum Change
1. Type of Change: Course Title
2. From: HIE 316: The History of Ideas and Ideologies in Nineteenth-Century Europe. 3 hours, 3 credits. The social and intellectual formation of liberalism, conservatism, nationalism, socialism, and anarchism, and their impact on political and social change in modern Europe
3. To: HIE 316: Nineteenth-century European Intellectual History. 3 hours, 3 credits. The social and intellectual formation of liberalism, conservatism, nationalism, socialism, and anarchism, and their impact on political and social change in modern Europe.
4. Rationale: The new course title better describes the content of the course as presently taught.
5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None
6. Date of Departmental approval: March 11, 2009
Lehman College of the City University of New York
Department of History Curriculum Change
1. Type of Change: Course Description and Title
2. From: *HIE 335: History of Spain. 3 hours, 3 credits. The rise of Spain to world dominance, its decline, and the search for political, economic, and social stability in the modern period.
3. To: HIE 335: History of Modern Spain. 3 hours, 3 credits. The history of Spain from the Enlightenment to the present. Goya and the Napoleonic invasion, the Generation of '98, Civil War, Picasso's "Guernica," Franco's dictatorship, Catalan and Basque separatism.
4. Rationale: After many years in which this course has not been taught, we plan on being able to offer it as part of a regular rotation. The new description reflects the state of the field at the present time, and the new title distinguishes this course from the proposed new course, HIE 305: Golden-Age Spain.
5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None
6. Date of Departmental approval: March 11, 2009 Lehman College of the City University of New York
Department of History Curriculum Change
1. Type of Change: Course Description
2. From: HIW 316: East Asia in the Modern World. 3 hours, 3 credits. The modernization of China and Japan in response to the intrusion from the West and to the erosion of traditional patterns of civilization. Covers the period from 1800 on.
3. To: HIW 316: East Asia in the Modern World. 3 hours, 3 credits. The making of modern East Asia from the Manchu invasions of the 17th century to the present-day rise of China, Japan and Korea as military, economic, and cultural powers.
4. Rationale: The new course description and title more accurately represent how the course has been taught in recent years.
5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None
6. Date of Departmental approval: March 11, 2009 Lehman College of the City University of New York
Department of History Curriculum Change
1. Type of Change: Course Description
2. From: HIW 322: History of Chinese Civilization. 3 hours, 3 credits. Chinese civilization from ancient times to the present; emphasis on major patterns in government and society, culture, and the arts. Includes readings in poetry and fiction. Individual reading and writing on a specific topic in non-Western history, under faculty direction.
3. To: HIW 322: History of Chinese Civilization. 3 hours, 3 credits. Broad chronological survey of Chinese culture and society from ancient times to the present, with special reference to beliefs, family, science, political dissent, art, and literature.
4. Rationale: The new course description more accurately represents how the course has been taught in recent years.
5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None
6. Date of Departmental approval: March 11, 2009 Lehman College of the City University of New York
Department of History Curriculum Change
1. Type of Change: Course Description and Title
2. From: HIW 325: The History of Japan. 3 hours, 3 credits. The gradual emergence of a distinctive Japanese civilization within the East Asian family of nations; the modernization of Japan during the last century.
3. To: HIW 325: History of Modern Japan. 3 hours, 3 credits. The emergence of Japan as a world power, focusing on its sometimes testy relationship with the United States. Samurai and warfare, Shinto, the fragility of democracy, World War II, the U.S. occupation of Japan, and Japan’s role in Asia, and the flourishing of consumer culture.
4. Rationale: The new course description and title more accurately represent the present state of the field. The new title reflects a narrower focus, which is justified by the wider scope of material covered in the course (i.e. an inclusion of Japan’s international relations).
5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None
6. Date of Departmental approval: March 11, 2009 Lehman College of the City University of New York
Department of History Curriculum Change
1. Type of Change: Course Description and Title
2. From: HIS 241: Modern Western Civilization from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Centuries. 3 hours, 3 credits. Major themes in European history from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century.
3. To: HIS 241: Early Modern Europe, 1400-1815. 3 hours, 3 credits. The making of modern Europe from the Renaissance to the fall of Napoleon.
4. Rationale: The new course description and title more accurately represent how the course has been taught in recent years.
5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None
6. Date of Departmental approval: March 11, 2009
Lehman College of the City University of New York
Department of History Curriculum Change
1. Type of Change: Withdrawal of course
2. From: HIE 303: The Age of the Counter-Reformation. 3 hours, 3 credits. Religious persecution, ideological warfare, and political rebellion in the context of the sixteenth- century Counter-Reformation; Catholicism and Calvinism; the Spanish Inquisition; the Netherlands' revolt against Spain; the St. Bartholomew's Massacre; the French religious wars; and the Armada.
3. Rationale: The period covered in this course is being combined with that covered in the newly-described HIE 302.
4. Date of departmental approval: March 11, 2009 Lehman College of the City University of New York
Department of History Curriculum Change
1. Type of Change: Withdrawal of course
2. From: HIE 315: The Enlightenment. 3 hours, 3 credits. Travel literature and the early Enlightenment, the spread of Enlightenment ideas, such as natural laws, natural rights, and market forces.
3. Rationale: The material covered in this course will be covered, with additional political and social context, in the newly-titled HIE 307, “Europe in the Age of Enlightenment.”
4. Date of departmental approval: March 11, 2009
Lehman College of the City University of New York
Department of History Curriculum Change
1. Type of Change: New Course
2. Course Description: HIE 304: Society and Culture in Renaissance Italy. 3 hours, 3 credits. The history of Italy (ca. 1350-1550) from the origins of the Renaissance in Florence to its decline following the sack of Rome in 1527; the dissemination of Renaissance culture throughout Europe and beyond.
3, Rationale: The history of Renaissance Italy, long considered an essential field in the history of Europe, has also produced some of the most dynamic scholarship in recent years. The wide range of primary and secondary sources available in English will allow students to explore both elite and popular culture in depth.
4. Academic Objectives and Justification for this Course: Students will work firsthand with primary sources (texts and images) to develop a personal understanding of the changes that took place in Italy that are often described as critical for the transition from medieval to modern society and culture.
5. Sample Syllabus/Texts:
Syllabus
The Black Death and the Rise of the Renaissance Humanism and the Passion for Antiquity Literacy, Education, and the Printed Book Religion and the Church Women, Marriage, and Family The Prince and the State Power and Patronage The "Popolo" and Popular Culture Cities of the Renaissance: Florence, Milan, Venice, Rome The Dissemination of the Renaissance The Sack of Rome and the End of the Renaissance
Readings
Michael Baxandall, Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy.
Julia Conaway Bondanella and Mark Musa, The Italian Renaissance Reader (includes selections by Petrarch, Boccaccio, Alberti, Machiavelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo).
Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller.
Caroline Murphy, The Pope's Daughter: The Extraordinary Life of Felice della Rovere.
J.H. Plumb, The Italian Renaissance.
6. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None.
7. Faculty: The course will be taught by faculty members currently in the department.
8. Estimated Enrollment and Frequency: One to two sections per year, 30 students per section
9. Date of Departmental approval: March 11, 2009 Lehman College of the City University of New York
Department of History Curriculum Change
1. Type of Change: New Course
2. Course Description: HIE 305: Golden-Age Spain. 3 hours, 3 credits. The rise and fall of Spain as an imperial power from the Middle Ages to 1700. Topics include the Reconquest, Columbus and the "Columbian Exchange," the Armada, the Inquisition, and Golden-Age painting, theater, and literature.
3, Rationale: This course offers an in-depth introduction to the history of Spain during its period of greatest international influence, 1492-1700. As such, it will offer a useful foundation for students who are interested either in pursuing European or Latin American history.
4. Academic Objectives and Justification for this Course: This course aims to teach students how to identify the most influential historical individuals, groups/institutions, and events in early modern Spain and understand them in the context of world events at the time; make informed arguments about controversial historiographical topics, including Spanish actions in the “New World,” the role of the Inquisition in Spain, and the development of the “Black Legend”; and describe and explain Spanish Golden-Age cultural achievements based on first-hand exploration of literature and drama and of artworks at local museums.
5. Sample Syllabus/Texts:
Syllabus
The Medieval Spains and Spanish “Difference” The Reconquest The Catholic Monarchs The Spanish Inquisition and People on the Margins Discovery, Conquest, and Colonization Charles V and the Challenges of Empire Counter-Reformation Religion Philip II and the “Black Legend” Crisis and Decline Golden-Age Painting, Literature, and Theater Charles II: The End of the Line
Readings
Simon Barton, A History of Spain
Miguel de Cervantes, Selections from Don Quixote
Jon Cowans, ed., Early Modern Spain: A Documentary History
Richard L. Kagan and Abigail Dyer, eds., Inquisitorial Inquiries
The Poem of the Cid
María de Zayas y Sotomayor, Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion
6. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None.
7. Faculty: The course will be taught by faculty members currently in the department.
8. Estimated Enrollment and Frequency: One to two sections per year, 30 students per section
9. Date of Departmental approval: March 11, 2009
Lehman College of the City University of New York
Department of History Curriculum Change
2. Type of Change: New Course
2. Course Description: HIW 323. History of Modern China. 3 hours, 3 credits. Chinese history from 1800 to present, concentrating on transformations of the Chinese economy, relations with the rest of the world, and changing views of reform and revolution in the modern era.
3, Rationale: As China emerges as the world’s leading industrial power and an important player in international politics, it is vital for Lehman’s undergraduates to gain a knowledge of its complex history.
4. Academic Objectives and Justification for this Course: In addition to giving students a better understanding of China, this course will introduce basic skills of the historian: how to read primary sources and how to write elegant and persuasive papers.
5. Sample Syllabus/Texts:
Course outline The challenges of population growth, drug use, invasion, and rebellion Modernization efforts The fall of the empire The problem of unity The victory of Communism Mao’s appeal The Cultural Revolution Industrial might and new challenges
Readings
Schoppa, Keith R. Revolution and Its Past: Identity and Change in Modern China. 2nd Edition. New York, Prentice Hall, 1995.
Cheng, Pei-kai, Michael Lestz, and Jonathan Spence, eds. The Search for Modern China, A Documentary Collection. New York: Norton, 1999.
Yang, Rae. Spider Eaters: A Memoir. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
Ye Sang, China Candid: The People on the People’s Republic. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006
6. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None.
7. Faculty: The course will be taught by faculty members currently in the Department.
8. Estimated Enrollment and Frequency: One to two sections per year, 30 students per section
9. Date of Departmental approval: March 11, 2009
Lehman College of the City University of New York
Department of History Curriculum Change
3. Type of Change: New Course
2. Course Description: HIS 240. East Asian Civilization. 3 hours, 3 credits. The literature, art, religions, and changing social life of people in China, Japan, and Korea. Emphasis on both the changing nature of popular culture and the relationship between long-term historical trends and life today.
3, Rationale: Asian traditions have contributed to shape the modern world in important ways. Knowledge of these cultures will complement other available offerings in Lehman’s general education curriculum.
4. Academic Objectives and Justification for this Course: This course aims to teach students how to appreciate diverse artistic and religion traditions, how to gain practice at locating differing points of view in cultural context, and how to attain valuable writing and critical thinking skills through the analysis of primary documents.
5. Sample Syllabus/Texts:
Readings
Warren I. Cohen. East Asia at the Center. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
William T. de Bary, ed. Sources of East Asian Tradition. Columbia, 2008.
Richard Kim. Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood. University of California Press, 1998.
Katsu Kokichi. Musui’s Story:Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai. University of Arizona Press, 1999.
Marco Polo. The Travels. Penguin Classics, 1958.
Pu Songling. Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. Penguin Classics, 2006.
6. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None.
7. Faculty: The course will be taught by faculty members currently in the Department.
8. Estimated Enrollment and Frequency: One to two sections per year, 30 students per section
9. Date of Departmental approval: March 11, 2009
LEHMAN COLLEGE OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
CURRICULUM CHANGE
1. Type of Change: Withdrawal of Course
2. From: *HIU 340: The Industrial Revolution
3. Rationale: This course has not been taught for many years. Its number is being taken over by HIU/AAS/WST 340, History of African American Women.
4. Effect Outside the Department: None
5. Date of Dept. of Sociology approval: March 18, 2009
Lehman College of the City University of New York
Department of History Curriculum Change
1. Type of Change: New Course
2. Course Description: HIS 240. East Asian Civilization. 3 hours, 3 credits. The literature, art, religions, and changing social life of people in China, Japan, and Korea. Emphasis on both the changing nature of popular culture and the relationship between long-term historical trends and life today.
3, Rationale: Asian traditions have contributed to shape the modern world in important ways. Knowledge of these cultures will complement other available offerings in Lehman’s general education curriculum.
4. Academic Objectives and Justification for this Course: This course aims to teach students how to appreciate diverse artistic and religion traditions, how to gain practice at locating differing points of view in cultural context, and how to attain valuable writing and critical thinking skills through the analysis of primary documents.
5. Sample Syllabus/Texts:
Readings
Warren I. Cohen. East Asia at the Center. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
William T. de Bary, ed. Sources of East Asian Tradition. Columbia, 2008.
Richard Kim. Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood. University of California Press, 1998.
Katsu Kokichi. Musui’s Story:Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai. University of Arizona Press, 1999.
Marco Polo. The Travels. Penguin Classics, 1958.
Pu Songling. Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. Penguin Classics, 2006.
6. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None.
7. Faculty: The course will be taught by faculty members currently in the Department.
8. Estimated Enrollment and Frequency: One to two sections per year, 30 students per section
9. Date of Departmental approval: March 11, 2009