DePauw U: Catalog Majors, Minors, Courses of Instruction

Faculty: J. Bruggemann, Y. Chiang, R. Clifford, J. Dittmer, M. Dixon-Fyle, D. Gellman, W. Hamilton, G. Kuecker, T. Morris, J. Schlotterbeck, B. Steinson, D. Trinkle, B. Whitehead

History, a discipline that belongs to both the humanities and the social sciences, is the study of change over time. By exploring the complexities of peoples and societies in the past, the present becomes more comprehensible. As a core discipline of the liberal arts, history encourages students to think critically, to argue logically and to examine the values of their society and those of other societies.

By developing research, analytical, writing, oral communication and problem solving skills, the undergraduate major in History is valuable preparation for a broad range of occupations, for graduate and professional schools and for the responsibilities of informed citizenship. Recent history majors have pursued careers in education, law, government service, journalism, public history, social agencies, business and finance.

The History department brings historians and history makers to campus, encourages off-campus study and travel, shows films and documentaries, sponsors field trips to historical sites and assists students in finding history-related internships.

The History department offers introductory and advanced work in the following geographic fields: Africa, East Asia, Europe, Latin America and the United States.

Students wishing to count courses taken off-campus toward a major or minor in history should note that approval is not automatic and that they must obtain prior approval from their academic advisors and the department chair.

Students preparing for social studies certification in secondary education are required to take HIST 400SS, normally during the spring semester of the junior year. They should review Section V, Teacher Education, and confer with the chair of the Education department about requirements for admission and certification.

Requirements for a major in History:

Total courses required: Nine

Core courses:
At least one course from three of the following five geographic fields: Africa, East Asia, Europe, Latin America and the United States

At least one course on a period of history before 1800

HIST 295: History Today: Debates and Practice

Either HIST 490: Seminar or HIST 494-495 Senior Thesis
Additional elective History courses to achieve a total of nine

Other required courses:
In consultation with their advisors, students define a field of concentration consisting of at least four courses. Fields can be chronological, thematic and/or geographic.
Students planning graduate work in history should note that graduate schools usually require a reading knowledge of one or more languages appropriate to the students' fields of study.

# 300 and 400 level courses: Three 300-level discussion

Senior requirement: Successful completion by giving a public presentation of research or compiling a portfolio of written work in history together with a self-reflective essay or undertaking a group project approved by a member of the department.

Additional information:

Requirements for a minor in History:

Total courses required: Five

Core courses: One course at the 100-level, one at the 200-level and one at the 300-level

Other courses: The department encourages students completing the minor to have a geographic concentration in one of five areas and encourages students with a U.S. or a European emphasis to take one course in African, Asian or Latin American history.

# 300 and 400 level courses: One

Courses in History

HIST 100. The Ancient Mediterranean World	Group 4	1 course
The Mediterranean world from the beginning of civilization to the end of the Roman Empire: Ancient Near East, Classical Greece, Hellenistic Age, Roman Republic, Roman Empire and the Emergence of Christianity.

HIST 105. The American Experience	Group 2	1 course
An introduction to American history through study of a special topic. Regularly offered American Experience courses include: The West, Slavery and Reform Movements. HIST 105 may be repeated for credit with different topics.

HIST 107. Introduction to China and Japan	Group 4	1 course
An interdisciplinary introduction to Chinese and Japanese civilizations from their beginning through the mid-19th century, stressing cultural ideals and the social relations of families and classes, including peasants and townsmen, bureaucrats, beggars and bandits, warlords and women.

HIST 108. Modern China and Japan	Group 4	1 course
An introductory examination of East Asia in the modern world, beginning with the Western impact in the mid-19th century and focusing on Japanese industrialization and empire, Chinese revolution, World War II in Asia and trends to the present.

HIST 109. African Civilizations	Group 4	1 course
The precolonial and colonial history of Africa from 1500 to 1945: the early socioeconomic and political organization of African society; problems of state formation; organization of an acephalous society and African production and trade; the impact of capital on the African formation as seen in the slave trade; and the era of legitimate commerce and early capitalist penetration.

HIST 110. Modern Africa	Group 2	1 course
Africa since 1945: the diverse socioeconomic and political concerns of a mature colonialism on the eve of decolonization; the many contradictions of a colonialism caught up in a wind of change, concession-prone in some areas, stolidly uncompromising in others; political independence and the policies it produced; and the path to Africa's present state of dependency and political instability.

HIST 111. European Civilization I--1300-1800	Group 4	1 course
A history of Europe from about 1300 to 1789, including the end of the medieval world, the Renaissance and Reformation, Scientific Revolution, the age of Enlightenment and the French Revolution.

HIST 112. European Civilization II--1789-Present	Group 4	1 course
A history of Europe from 1789 to the present, including French Revolution and Napolean, Industrialization, the Age of the Nation States, the struggle among liberal, communist and fascist ideologies, World Wars I and II, postwar reconstruction, decolonization and European integration.

HIST 115. Colonial Latin America	Group 4	1 course
The societies and cultures of Latin America from pre-Hispanic times to the early 19th century. Topics include indigenous societies, period of contact and conquest, resistance and accommodation in the emerging colonial regimes and the revolutions for independence. Emphasis on social relations and cultural practices of the diverse Latin American peoples.

HIST 116. Modern Latin America	Group 2	1 course
The legacies of independence, modernization processes, revolutionary upheaval, nationalisms and the populist movements that marked the history of Latin America from 1825 to the present. Emphasis on social relations and cultural practices of the diverse Latin American peoples.

HIST 117. Violence of Everyday Life in Latin America	Group 2	1 course
An interdisciplinary approach toward understanding the problems of citizenship, inequality and agency in Latin America since World War II. It is a discussion-based course with readings from anthropology, sociology, political science and history.

HIST 156. Advanced Placement in History		1 course
Advanced placement credit for entering first-year students. A. United States History; B. European History.

HIST 197. First-Year Seminar		1 course
The first-year seminars focus on different historical topics, but all introduce students to the interdisciplinary nature of historical inquiry and include emphasis on discussion, writing and reading a variety of primary sources. Recent seminar topics include: Americans and War, Myth, Memory and History, Declarations of Independence, Rise and Fall of the Nuclear Family and (De)Constructing Race in the U.S. HIST 197 is open only to first-year students.

HIST 201. Twentieth-Century Europe	Group 2	1 course
Europe in the 20th century: the Great War and its aftermath; struggles among liberal, Communist, fascist and other ideologies; the Great Depression and its effects; the failure of the quest for international security; World War II and postwar reconstruction and organization; the Cold War; the moves toward European unity; and 20th-century civilization in Europe.

HIST 206. History of Mexico	Group 2	1 course
A social history of Mexico from pre-Hispanic times to the present. Emphasizing processes of resistance, rebellion and accommodation, this course examines the social and cultural dynamics of the major Mesoamerican societies (Aztecs and Maya), the colonial period and the process of nation formation. Attention will be given to gender and ethnic issues.

HIST 221. France from Charlemagne to Napoleon	Group 4	1 course
The history of France from the Merovingians of Gaul through the Napoleonic era with an emphasis on intellectual, cultural and social movements of this early period. Major topics: Charlemagne and the Carolingian Empire; the Hundred Years' War; rise of absolutism; the Wars of Religion; the Fronde; the Age of Louis XIV; the Enlightenment; the French Revolution.

HIST 222. Modern France	Group 2	1 course
A survey of the political, cultural and social history of France from the Revolution (1789) to the present.

HIST 225. European Women's History	Group 4	1 course
An examination of the cultural and intellectual roles of women in Western Europe. In addition to surveying the women's traditional place in European society, this course also considers the work of exceptional women who argued against that role. Topics include the debate on the nature of women, women in power, witchcraft, women and science, women in revolutions and the education of women.

HIST 231. England to 1760	Group 4	1 course
A social, political, cultural and intellectual study of England to the mid-18th century. Major themes: constitutional and legal development; the Elizabethan Age; religious movements; the Civil War; and cultural and social life in pre-industrial England.

HIST 232. Modern England	Group 4	1 course
A social, political, economic and intellectual study of the English people, their outlooks and their attitudes from the 18th century to the present. Major themes: Victorian society; social and political reform; Evangelicalism; the Industrial Revolution; liberalism; imperialism; Fabian socialism; the rise of Labour; and the emergence of the welfare state in the 20th century.

HIST 241. Russian History to the 19th Century	Group 4	1 course
Development of Russian state, society and culture from the ninth to the 19th centuries, with particular attention to the Kievan, Mongol, Muscovite and Imperial periods.

HIST 242. Modern Russia	Group 4	1 course
Culture and society in the last years of the Empire; the growth of the revolutionary movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; the establishment of the Soviet Union, its development, decline and collapse; and the beginnings of post-Soviet Russia.

HIST 243. Germany from the Thirty Years War to National Unification, 1648-1870	Group 4	1 course
Located in the heart of Europe, Germany has played a central role in European history. The domestic and foreign conflicts that have dominated the country's history provide the focus of the course. The course covers political, social and cultural developments in German history from the mid-17th into the 19th centuries, including the Treaty of Westphalia, German dualism, German Enlightenment, the rise of Prussia, Germany in the age of revolution and reaction and German national unification.

HIST 244. Germany from Unification to Unification, 1870-1989	Group 4	1 course
Germany has played a central and disruptive role in the recent history of Europe. The domestic and foreign conflicts that have dominated the country's history with such far-reaching consequences will provide the focus of the course. The course covers the political, social and cultural developments that shaped the course of German history from the creation of a unified Germany in 1871 to the reunification of Germany in 1990. It examines the Imperial period, World War I, the Weimar Republic, the Nazi experience, the division of postwar Germany and its reunification in our own times.

HIST 252. United States-East Asian Relations	Group 2	1 course
An examination of the interactions between the United States and the major countries in East Asia - China, Japan and Korea - from the 19th century to the present. Topics explored include cultural interactions and changing mutual images, impact of imperialism, Asian nationalism, the Pacific War, Communism in Asia and Japan's rise as an economic superstate.

HIST 256. African Cultures	Group 2	1 course
A review of cultural change in various African societies from earliest times to present. African society is first examined in the primordial state and then reviewed against the coming of Islam, Christianity and Western cultural penetration; a discussion of the current prevalence of cultural syncretism and plurality in African cultures.

HIST 257. Ethnicity and Conflict in South Africa	Group 2	1 course
The history of South Africa from the 17th century to the present; its relations with neighboring communities; the coming of white settlers; African subjugation and the rise of apartheid; local and foreign reaction to the apartheid state; the process of decolonization; and ethnic and class cleavages in post-Apartheid society.

HIST 263. The Founding of United States Civilization	Group 4	1 course
A survey of North American history from Columbus through the War of 1812, emphasizing territories that ultimately became part of the United States. Course includes such subjects as European-Indian interaction, African slavery in early America, the development of English colonies, the American Revolution, the U.S. Constitution and politics in the early republic.

HIST 264. Nineteenth-Century United States	Group 2	1 course
The United States between 1815 and 1900: development of a market economy and industrial society; political parties and presidential leadership; westward expansion; reform movements; slavery and emancipation; sectional crisis and Civil War; ethnic and class conflicts; and roles of women, African Americans and Native Americans.

HIST 265. Twentieth-Century United States	Group 2	1 course
United States social, economic, political and diplomatic history from 1900 to the present.

HIST 275. African American History	Group 4	1 course
A survey of the black experience in the United States focusing on ways African Americans reacted individually and collectively to their condition and how they have contributed to the development of the United States.

HIST 277. US Women's History: 1700-1900	Group 2	1 course
The impact of settlement, colonization, revolution and independence, industrialization, urbanization, slavery, the Civil War, westward expansion, education and immigration on women. Readings will be drawn from journals, diary excerpts, short stories, novels and letters and from scholarly essays and monographs by historians and other social scientists. Class, race and ethnic differences will be examined throughout the semester.

HIST 278. Women in the United States, 1890-Present	Group 2	1 course
A chronological survey of U.S. women's history from 1890 to the present. It considers experiences of women of different classes, races and ethnic backgrounds. Among the topics covered are changes in women's paid employment, women's participation in selected social and political movements, women and popular culture and the impact of the Great Depression and wars on women.

HIST 281. History of the Black Experience [See also BLST 281]	Group 2	1 course
An exploration of the historical foundations and the development of Black life in Africa and its later diffusion in the Black Diaspora. Its purview will range from pre-colonial dynamics to the more contemporary manifestations of global Black history in North America, Europe, the Caribbean, Central America, Latin America and Melanesia. Topics include: African cultures before European contact, the slave trade and its impact on Africa and the Atlantic economy, the middle passage, internal migration in Africa and case studies of the creation of Diasporic communities and cultures.

HIST 290. Topics		1 course
A study of a special topic with an emphasis on discussion and participation. Descriptions of HIST 290 courses offered in a given semester are available on the History department Website or in the History department office prior to registration for that semester. May be repeated for credit with different topics.

HIST 295. History Today: Debates and Practices	Group 4	1 course
An introduction to history as a discipline, including why historians interpret the past in different and often contested ways; problems of historical method, including use of evidence, objectivity, causation, periodization and categories of historical analysis (such as, nation-state, gender, race and class); and current approaches and methodologies in the history profession.

HIST 300. Topics		1/2-1 course
A study of a special topic at an advanced level. This and all 300-level courses are small discussion classes. Descriptions of HIST 300 courses offered in a given semester are available on the History department Website or in the History department office prior to registration for that semester. May be repeated for credit with different topics.

HIST 330. Sex, Politics and Society in Victorian England	Group 4	1 course
An exploration of changing class and power relations in response to modernization in the 19th century (rapid industrialization, urbanization and the disruption of old class patterns). Alongside traditional themes-- structure of landed society, strict settlement, standard of living debate, evangelicalism, poor laws and welfare reform--the course is equally concerned to penetrate the seemingly monolithic edifice of Victorianism to examine questions of class, gender and sexual attitudes to discover how the Victorians perceived themselves and articulated their notions of morality. The course examines changing roles of women, notions of family and sexual attitudes that transcended conventional ideas to invent new concepts of sexual identity.

HIST 333. Northern Ireland: The Debate	Group 2	1 course
An attempt to understand the roots of the present Irish conflict through a study of the background and history of Anglo-Irish relations from ca. 1870 to the present. Debate topics will cover issues ranging from the first attempts at home rule and the emergence of an Irish nationalist party in the late 19th century to the recent civil rights movements and present conflict in Northern Ireland. A range of political, social, economic, intellectual and religious factors are considered.

HIST 335. The History of History	Group 4	1 course
A study of selected problems and texts in the critical history and philosophy of history. Major questions addressed by the course: Is objective history possible? What is the role of the historian? How is history politicized through selection of subject matter? And, how has the idea of progress influenced the writing of history?

HIST 337. The Age of Louis XIV	Group 4	1 course
A study of life in France during the reign of the Sun King. A deeper understanding of 17th-century French life is attempted through a study of French history, politics, society, literature, philosophy and art.

HIST 338. The Enlightenment	Group 4	1 course
This 18th-century European intellectual movement is approached through the works of the major thinkers of the period. Writers such as Voltaire, Montesquieu, Diderot, Rousseau, Beccaria and de Sade are examined.

HIST 339. Imperial Europe	Group 4	1 course
This course will look at Western Europe at its height of power and influence and in the decades leading up to and including WWI (c.1870-1918). The class will approach Imperial Europe through a series of thematic clusters, such as empire, imperialism and militarism, nations and nationalism, gender and generation, culture, technology, politics and political organization, intellectual developments, mortality, sexuality, etc.

HIST 342. Europe of Dictators	Group 4	1 course
An examination of the social, economic, political and ideological conditions and processes that led to the establishment of single-party dictatorships in Italy, Germany and the Soviet Union.

HIST 350. The Samurai in Feudal Japan	Group 4	1 course
An exploration of feudal Japanese society (1185-1800) through an in-depth study of its major actors - the samurai. The topics that are explored in this course include the mores, ethos and valor of the samurai, on the one hand, and the changing as well as enduring social, economic and political structure of this period on the other hand.

HIST 351. Women and Family in Modern China	Group 2	1 course
The role and status of women and the evolution of the Chinese family from the late imperial period to the present. It draws on materials from novels and biographical case studies.

HIST 353. Industrial East Asia	Group 2	1 course
An examination of the emergence of East Asia from a pre-industrialized backwater in the 19th century to a vibrant economic region by the 1980s.

HIST 355. African Nationalism, 1890-1985	Group 4	1 course
A survey of African resistance to European imperialism with emphasis on the national peculiarities of the European penetration, the experience of Settler and non-Settler Africa, the personnel and methodology of proto-nationalist and nationalist resistance, and the general outcome of these efforts.

HIST 356. African Slavery	Group 2	1 course
A review of the processes of incorporation into slavery; slaves in production and exchange; the resistance history of slavery; the gender implications of the slave state; slaves and social mobility, interdependence and the manipulations of class; and the dynamics of manumission and abolition.

HIST 362. Voices of a Revolutionary Age	Group 4	1 course
The American Revolution in the context of revolutionary upheaval throughout the Atlantic world from 1775-1815. Topics include alternative visions of political society, the challenge of slavery, Native American responses to U.S. independence and the case for women's rights. We will encounter famous and ordinary people, often in their own words.

HIST 364. Civil War and Reconstruction	Group 2	1 course
The causes, impact and consequences of the Civil War: origins of sectional conflict, the secession crisis, emancipation, Reconstruction policies, political and military leadership, the impact of events on civilians and soldiers and long-term effects of this period on American society and political institutions.

HIST 367. The Civil Rights Movement	Group 2	1 course
The black-led freedom movement in the South from the end of World War II to the late 1960s. Prerequisites: HIST 265, HIST 275 or permission of instructor.

HIST 368. United States in the Sixties	Group 2	1 course
The decade of the 1960s was a tumultuous and often bewildering period in recent United States history. The course assesses the presidencies of Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon. Causes and manifestations of social, political and cultural change are examined. The Civil Rights, Black Power, New Left, Anti-War and Women's Liberation movements are studied, as well as the war in Southeast Asia.

HIST 371. Family and Community in America	Group 2	1 course
An interdisciplinary study of the history of the family and community in the United States from colonial times until the present.

HIST 373. Chicago and New York	Group 2	1 course
An investigation of the life and times of two of America's greatest metropolises, from their founding until approximately 1980. The course emphasizes the following themes: popular culture, poverty, politics, race, ethnicity and social reform. Historical narratives, literature and social criticism will be used as a springboard for discussing the variety of ways in which ordinary people constructed lives on a human scale and sometimes thrived in fast-changing urban environments.

HIST 375. Women's Social and Political Movements	Group 2	1 course
The varieties of female activism in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. Among the topics covered are benevolence, abolitionism, women's rights, the movement for reproductive freedom, the social settlement movement, temperance, suffragism and anti-suffragism, labor organizing, civil rights, women's liberation and radical feminism.

HIST 376. US Women's Legal History	Group 2	1 course
An overview of several legal issues affecting the lives of American women from the colonial period to the 20th century. The constitutional issues that will be explored include: the equal protection clause and gender discrimination, the development of "more rigid scrutiny," women's bodies and the right of privacy, and Congressional enforcement of equal protection. Other subjects considered are property rights, black and white women in the 19th century South, breach of promise suits, child custody, adoption and illegitimacy in the 19th century and the women's rights movement.

HIST 381. The Mexican Revolution	Group 2	1 course
An examination of the social fabric of the 1910 Mexican revolution, emphasizing both internal and external factors, it will cover from roughly 1876 to 1940. Major areas of analysis are: the formation of the Porfirian regime and its modernizing agenda during the late 19th century; the national eruption of diverse forms of cultural and political opposition led by peasants and workers; the emergence of the post-revolutionary regimes; and the various and competing efforts of nation formation of the early 20th century.

HIST 382. US/Latin American Relations	Group 2	1 course
An examination of the political and economic contours of the relationship between the United States and Latin America. This course surveys the historical period from the late 1700s to the present. Special focus is on reading and using primary documents.

HIST 400SS. Teaching of Social Studies		1/2 course
A divisional course serving students in the departments of economics and management, history, political science, psychology, sociology and anthropology. The work covers values and objectives, viewpoints of the individual social sciences, curriculum problems, classroom procedures and correlation and integration of the social studies. Prerequisite: junior or senior classification and candidacy for a teacher's certificate in the social studies. May not be counted toward a major in history.

HIST 490. Seminar		1 course
The practice of history as a discipline through research, interpretation and writing a major paper. Students are expected to take the seminar in their major area of concentration. Descriptions of seminar topics offered in a given semester will be made available prior to registration.

HIST 491. Reading Course		1/2-1 course
A study of either a geographical area (East Asia, Russia, France, etc.), a period (Europe since 1789, early America, etc.) or a movement, division of history or institution (socialism, military history, feudalism, etc.). Reading and/or research. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. May be repeated for credit with different topics.

HIST 495-496. Senior Thesis		1 course each semester
Intensive research on a topic approved by the instructor and resulting in a thesis prepared under the instructor's supervision. During the first semester, the student will undertake reading and research and may participate in either a section of HIST 490 or a seminar group limited to students enrolled in HIST 495; during the second semester the student will complete the thesis and defend it before a committee of history department faculty. Prerequisite: a major in history with a GPA in the major of at least 3.3 and permission of the department.

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