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History (HIST) 1 History (HIST) 1 cultural resources. In addition to lectures and secondary background readings, students read and discuss fictional works, with a view to exploring "Islamic HISTORY (HIST) civilization" through literary voices of acclaimed authors. Reading fiction is to HIST101F History and the Humanities (FYS) help us through the fragmentary nature of the sources used to reconstruct the This course offers first-year students an opportunity to explore the humanities major debates that surround the emergence and formation of Islamic empires in from a variety of different disciplinary perspectives, traditionally Western as well the Early Modern period. Questions of fictional narration, historical memory, and as global, and to make connections between humanistic learning and history. revisionist history will also be discussed. The course is a small discussion seminar in which primary source materials, Offering: Host or classic texts, are used exclusively. An effort will be made to examine the Grading: OPT interrelationship of ideas in the various disciplines and to compare history, Credits: 1.00 literary analysis, philosophy, and theory as modes of inquiry and as ways of Gen Ed Area: SBS-HIST thinking about documents and texts. The course thereby aims to provide Prereq: None students with the critical tools by which to analyze texts produced in the remote HIST106F Black Reconstruction: The Origins of America's Racial Divide (FYS) or recent past. The course also serves a related purpose: to familiarize students Voter intimidation, racial violence, an impeached president, an embattled with the heritage of Western historical tradition and to impart knowledge of the Congress, threats of a civil war, and emboldened domestic terrorists are not crucial role of history and the humanities as a component in general education. a new phenomenon in American history. All have their roots in America's Students may take HIST101F without having to take HIST102F. most violent, revolutionary, and contested era: Reconstruction. Beginning Offering: Host after the Civil War, Radical Republicans inside and outside Congress worked Grading: OPT with free Black allies to found an American nation that lived up to its ideals. Credits: 1.00 White domestic terrorists, backed by an increasingly recalcitrant Democratic Gen Ed Area: HA-HIST Party, violently opposed the increased political power and civil rights of African Prereq: None Americans. In this first-year seminar, we will examine the contours of that HIST102F History and the Humanities II (FYS) contest, the world that it created, and the lasting influence of America's This course offers first-year students an opportunity to explore the humanities unfinished revolution. from a variety of different disciplinary perspectives, traditionally Western as well Offering: Host as global, and to make connections between humanistic learning and history. Grading: OPT The course is a small discussion seminar in which primary source materials, Credits: 1.00 or classic texts, are used exclusively. An effort will be made to examine the Gen Ed Area: SBS-HIST interrelationship of ideas in the various disciplines and to compare history, Prereq: None literary analysis, philosophy, and theory as modes of inquiry and as ways of HIST107F Life of the Modern Fact (FYS) thinking about documents and texts. The course thereby aims to provide Facts aren't born; they are made. The challenge is to understand how people students with the critical tools by which to analyze texts produced in the remote have come to think of facts as existing in the world independent of human or recent past. The course also serves a related purpose: to familiarize students intervention. This course explores the tools and techniques that people have with the heritage of Western historical tradition and to impart knowledge of the used to craft facts in varied domains of applied science, such as agriculture, crucial role of history and the humanities as a component in general education. climate modeling, epidemiology, and pharmaceutical production. The course Students may take HIST102F without having taken HIST101F. also examines how broader social structures, such as law and community, Offering: Host helped produce facts as people shared, defended, and used them. We consider Grading: OPT examples from the 17th century through the present day, including practices of Credits: 1.00 nature study, classification, quantification, and experiment. Gen Ed Area: HA-HIST Offering: Host Prereq: None Grading: OPT HIST103F From Protest to Revolution: A Middle Eastern History (FYS) Credits: 1.00 This seminar explores protests, rebellions, insurgencies, and revolutions Gen Ed Area: SBS-HIST that have shaped the history of the Middle East from the birth of the three Prereq: None monotheistic religions to this day. Why do people rebel? We will seek answers HIST109F With Bold Knife and Fork: An Introduction to Food History (FYS) in the context of religion, ethnicity, language, and race in the long and political This first-year seminar is an introduction to food history and food studies, two history of this wide-ranging human geography. The main focus will be the agency linked fields in which we ask how people have satisfied their appetites, and of those who strived for change and modes of resistance, finishing with the 21st- what their choices mean. This encompasses everything from the question of century activisms in labor, LGBTQ+, student, journalist, academic, and political how agriculture began, to the question of what it meant to eat a Korean taco Islamic mobilizations. in Los Angeles in, say, 2014. Food history and food studies are vast fields, and Offering: Host in this seminar we will sample many versions of them. Because this seminar is Grading: OPT designed for students just beginning college, it introduces a variety of academic Credits: 1.00 approaches to food, from chronological analyses of how specific ingredients Gen Ed Area: SBS-HIST became important for specific populations, to the anthropological treatment Prereq: None of food and identity, to cultural histories informed by primary sources-- HIST104F Islam and Empire Through Fiction (FYS) that is, documents written by historical actors. We even read contemporary This first-year seminar will cover the three different empires of the Early Modern "food writing," including restaurant reviews, which are themselves historical era (c. 1500-1800), encompassing much of the Muslim world: the Ottoman documents of a sort. This course also has a strong chronological through- Empire in the core of the Middle East, Safavid Empire in Persia and beyond, and line, winding from the establishment of agriculture to the modernization and Mughal Empire in South Asia. Our aim is to analyze both common and divergent industrialization of global food ways. patterns and structures of imperial rule as well as shared imperial legacies and Offering: Host 2 History (HIST) Grading: OPT movements to achieve their goals, how social movements related to each other, Credits: 1.00 how social movements changed over time, and how social movements interacted Gen Ed Area: SBS-HIST with the broader forces of American society, including politics, race, law, and Prereq: None religion. A major focus of this course will be how historians conduct research, use HIST110F Been in the Storm So Long: Grassroots Movements and the Black evidence, and write history. Students will be exposed to primary sources as well Freedom Struggle (FYS) as selected secondary sources in the field. Most civil rights narratives focus on Martin Luther King, Jr. and other prominent Offering: Host leaders of the civil rights movements. This course seeks to shift that narrative to Grading: OPT young activists working on the ground in the struggle for Black freedom. These Credits: 1.00 college students used grassroots organizing tactics, embedding themselves Gen Ed Area: SBS-HIST in local Black communities, to drive local politics and draw attention to larger Prereq: None systemic issues. We will look specifically at the work of the Student Nonviolent HIST123F Cinema India: South Asia's Past on Film (FYS) Coordinating Committee (SNCC), led by John Lewis and Stokely Carmichael, as This first year seminar course examines the relationship of film and history in they moved from the shock troops of the Southern freedom struggle to Black India. We will focus on how filmmakers represent the past and, alternatively, Power. how films inform historical memory--especially in the context of the competing Offering: Host trajectories of nationalism, postcolonialism, and globalization. A central concern Grading: OPT will be the historiographical challenges and opportunities of film. We will pay Credits: 1.00 particular attention to Hindi cinema, including films produced by the Bombay/ Gen Ed Area: SBS-HIST Mumbai ("Bollywood") film industry since the 1950s, though we will also Prereq: None consider the rise of "parallel" cinema. Feature films will range from classics HIST116 Environmental History: Telling Stories in Place like "Mughal-e Azam" (1960) and "Umraon Jaan" (1981), to lesser known This course introduces students to environmental history, the study of the works like "Shatranj ke Khiladi" (1977), "Mirch Masala" (1987), and "Hazaaron changing relationships between humans and nature through time. We will Khwahishen Aisi" (2005). We will also probe the critical and box-office success of consider how the natural world has shaped human history; how humans have relatively recent blockbusters
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