Courses Offered

HIEU 109. Blood, Soil, Boundaries: European Nationalisms (4)

This course will explore the history of nationalism as idea and political movement in European history, from the French Revolution to the present.

HIEU 139. Sex and Gender from the Renaissance to the French Revolution (4)

This course places gender and sexuality at the center of European history from the Renaissance to the French Revolution. We examine the distinct roles that men and women played in the period’s major events. We track how practices and understandings of gender and sexuality shifted during the four centuries between 1500 and 1800.

HIEU 145. The Holocaust as Public History (4)

This new course, offered for the first time in winter 2009, addresses how the era is represented today in the United States, Europe and Israel, the aesthetics of various memorials, the historical accuracy of memoirs, and the possible political meanings of Holocaust education in the present. Students in this course will work closely with the Holocaust Living History Workshop, a project that brings together local San Diego Holocaust survivors and undergraduate students.

HIEU 158. Why Hitler? How Auschwitz? (4)

An undergraduate survey course on the Holocaust, covering antisemitism in Germany, the Nazi seizure of power, methods of Nazi rule, plans for genocide, Jewish behavior in ghettos and camps, and postwar justice.

HIEU 176/276. Politics in the Jewish Past (4)

This seminar addresses Jewish civic autonomy in the late medieval era, the terms of emancipation in the European states, the politics of Jewish socialists, the costs of assimilation, and the consequences of a successful Zionist state in 1948. Graduate students will be required to submit a more substantial piece of work with in-depth analysis and with an increased number of sources cited. A typical undergraduate paper would be ten pages, whereas a typical graduate paper would require engagement with primary sources, more extensive reading of secondary material, and be about twenty pages.

HIGR 200. History and Theory (4)

An introductory graduate course for students in all fields. Themes include cross-field historiography and theory, interdisciplinary approaches to history, and historical method.

HIGR 205. Historical Scholarship on Women and Gender (4)

An introduction to feminist historical studies, this course is designed for interested graduate students from all history field groups. Graduate students from other disciplines are also encouraged to participate. The course will provide students a rigorous training in women’s history, in the feminist theories that undergird that scholarship, and in the emergent field of gender analysis. The particular content of the course will change from year to year, but each course will include theoretical texts, historical case studies, and primary sources. Readings will be drawn from different times and places. This course is strongly recommended for those preparing minor fields in women’s history. The course can be repeated twice for credit.

HIGR 221. Historical Scholarship on European History, 1715–1850 (4)

Selected topics in European history from the early modern to the modern era. Readings and discussions focus on issues of methodology and interpretation. Required for all beginning European history graduate students.

HITO 136. African Americans and Jews: Slavery, Diaspora, Ghetto (4)

We explore contrasts and parallels between African-Americans and Jews from the seventeenth-century to the present. We investigate slavery, the Civil War, shared music, political movements, urban geography, and longings to return to a homeland in Africa or Palestine.

MMW 14. Revolution, Industry, and Empire (4)

In this course we survey global history from the middle of the eighteenth century until World War I. We explore how Europe became capitalist and how the exploitation of other regions made that capitalism possible. We explore how women and men, people of different races and ethnicities, the landed and he landless, the urban and the rural, the powerful and the victims shaped this exciting, dramatic, and fateful era of the global past.