The course will consider the patterns of colonization, examples of cooperation and conflict between the various groups that came into contact in South Africa, strategies of resistance to imperial control, and connections to the broader global networks of trade, imperialism, slavery, and discovery. Special attention will be given to the topics of violence, assimilation, and institutionalized racism during the colonial imperial, and post-colonial periods of South African history. HA

The history of the three major states and socities of Asia - China, Japan, and India, since 1750, including the coming of the West, the hey-day of imperialism, nationalist stirring and responses, and the 20th century transformations. HA

A study of selected themes and topics in the history of the 20th century. SJE, HA

This class examines women as an economic force in American history. Topics will include womens unpaid and paid domestic work, women and industrialization, the growth of labor unions, female-dominated professions, and opportunities for women in higher education. Feminist frameworks of recognizing womens search for gender equality will inform the analysis of the role of race, class and ethnicity in creating sexual divisions of labor. HA

An analysis of the ways in which Americans have interacted with their natural environment over time: population pressures on the land, the impact of the market economy, technology, social structures and social relations involved in the use, exploitation, and conservation of a particular natural resource, and human attitudes toward the environment. HA

This course explores recent U.S. history through the eyes of women. It analyzes how gender roles have changed over time by race, class, and culture. It examines womens experience in the family, religious, political, and social organizations. Topics of interest include the suffrage movement, settlement houses, prohibition, the labor movement, women in war and peace, and modern feminism. HA

This course explores the ways in which women in American have experienced and given meaning to their history from 1500-1900. This thematic analysis of the cultural roles and the social realities of American women examines such topics as family and private life, work and the economy, and community and public life. HA

An analysis of the American West as both place and processes. Topics include western myths and realities, Native American-Euroamerican relations, environmental, economic, and political transformations, and western social relations. HA

This course examines the border, or boundary, between Mexico and the U.S. We will seek to connect the borders historical origins with contemporary border issues. The course will examine the forces, policies, people, and events that produced the border as a middle ground of contact, conflict, and accommodation that occurs when two or more cultures come into contact with one another. HA

This course describes and analyzes the causes, character, and consequences of America's greatest crisis. The time period is from the sectional crisis of the late antebellum period of the 1840s to the end of Reconstruction in 1877. The class will examine the roots of sectional conflict, the course, conduct and consequences of war, and the efforts to reconstruct the nation.