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Title
Instructor
Quarter
Day, Time, Location

ENGLISH 66
'A Model Island': Britain in Historical and Cultural Perspective

2023 - 2024
Summer

ETHICSOC 106
Human Rights in Comparative and Historical Perspective (CLASSICS 116, CLASSICS 216, HUMRTS 106)

2023 - 2024
Winter

INTNLREL 102
History of the International System since 1914 (HISTORY 102)

2023 - 2024
Summer

INTNLREL 175
American Empire in the Pacific

2023 - 2024
Spring

OSPBER 77
Understanding Intl' Politics Today:¿From the German Philosophers to Modern Social Science

2023 - 2024
Winter

OSPFLOR 12
Constituting a Republic: Machiavelli, Madison, and Modern Issues

2023 - 2024
Autumn

OSPKYOCT 142
Japan in East Asia

2023 - 2024
Autumn

OSPOXFRD 66
A Model Island in Practice

2023 - 2024
Spring

ANTHRO 27N
Ethnicity and Violence: Anthropological Perspectives

Thiranagama, S. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

ARTHIST 1B
How to Look at Art and Why: An Introduction to the History of Western Painting

Nemerov, A. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
11:30 AM
12:50 PM

ARTHIST 102B
Coffee, Sugar, and Chocolate: Commodities and Consumption in World History, 1200-1800 (ARTHIST 302B, HISTORY 202B, HISTORY 302B, HISTORY 402B)

Findlen, P. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Wednesday
9:30 AM
12:20 PM

ARTHIST 203
Artists, Athletes, Courtesans and Crooks (CLASSICS 163)

Maxmin, J. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Monday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

ARTHIST 302B
Coffee, Sugar, and Chocolate: Commodities and Consumption in World History, 1200-1800 (ARTHIST 102B, HISTORY 202B, HISTORY 302B, HISTORY 402B)

Findlen, P. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Wednesday
9:30 AM
12:20 PM

CLASSICS 163
Artists, Athletes, Courtesans and Crooks (ARTHIST 203)

Maxmin, J. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Monday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

EASTASN 77
Divided Memories & Reconciliation: the formation of wartime historical memory in the Pacific (EASTASN 277)

Sneider, D. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

EASTASN 277
Divided Memories & Reconciliation: the formation of wartime historical memory in the Pacific (EASTASN 77)

Sneider, D. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

ENGLISH 66
'A Model Island': Britain in Historical and Cultural Perspective

Solywoda, S. (PI)
Afanasyev, I. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Thursday
9:30 AM
11:20 AM

FRENCH 130
Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance French Literature

Edmondson, C. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
9:30 AM
10:50 AM

GLOBAL 101
Critical Issues in Global Affairs

Knezevic, J. (PI)
Kuhns, K. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

HISTORY 3F
Introduction to Modern Military History (HISTORY 103F, INTNLREL 103F)

Vardi, G. (PI)
Cortigiani, F. (TA)
Olson, J. (TA)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

HISTORY 9N
How to Start Your Own Country: Sovereignty and State-Formation in Modern History

Press, S. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

HISTORY 81B
Making the Modern Middle East

Uran Kyzy, A. (TA)
Owens, M. (TA)
Barakat, N. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
9:30 AM
10:50 AM

HISTORY 103F
Introduction to Modern Military History (HISTORY 3F, INTNLREL 103F)

Vardi, G. (PI)
Cortigiani, F. (TA)
Olson, J. (TA)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

HISTORY 145B
Introduction to African Studies I: Africa in the 20th Century (AFRICAAM 145B)

Ayodele, M. (TA)
Getz, T. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

HISTORY 181B
Making the Modern Middle East

Uran Kyzy, A. (TA)
Owens, M. (TA)
Barakat, N. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
9:30 AM
10:50 AM

HISTORY 202B
Coffee, Sugar, and Chocolate: Commodities and Consumption in World History, 1200-1800 (ARTHIST 102B, ARTHIST 302B, HISTORY 302B, HISTORY 402B)

Findlen, P. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Wednesday
9:30 AM
12:20 PM

HISTORY 210G
The Great War (INTNLREL 182)

Vardi, G. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

HISTORY 259E
American Interventions, 1898-Present (HISTORY 359E, INTNLREL 168A)

Rakove, R. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

HISTORY 282K
Refugees and Migrants in the Middle East and Balkans: 18th Century to Present (HISTORY 382K, JEWISHST 282K)

Daniels, J. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

HISTORY 302B
Coffee, Sugar, and Chocolate: Commodities and Consumption in World History, 1200-1800 (ARTHIST 102B, ARTHIST 302B, HISTORY 202B, HISTORY 402B)

Findlen, P. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Wednesday
9:30 AM
12:20 PM

HISTORY 359E
American Interventions, 1898-Present (HISTORY 259E, INTNLREL 168A)

Rakove, R. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

ILAC 130
Introduction to Iberia: Cultural Perspectives

Resina, J. (PI)
Ferrer, O. (TA)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

ILAC 161
Modern Latin American Literature

Kim, Y. (TA)
Hughes, N. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

INTNLREL 103F
Introduction to Modern Military History (HISTORY 3F, HISTORY 103F)

Vardi, G. (PI)
Cortigiani, F. (TA)
Olson, J. (TA)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

INTNLREL 168A
American Interventions, 1898-Present (HISTORY 259E, HISTORY 359E)

Rakove, R. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

INTNLREL 182
The Great War (HISTORY 210G)

Vardi, G. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

ITALIAN 127
Inventing Italian Literature: Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarca

Giorgetti, L. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
12:00 PM
1:20 PM

JEWISHST 282K
Refugees and Migrants in the Middle East and Balkans: 18th Century to Present (HISTORY 282K, HISTORY 382K)

Daniels, J. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

MUSIC 7B
Musical Cultures of the World

Costache, I. (PI)
Koplitz, D. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

OSPAUSTL 40
Australian Studies: History, Society and Culture Down Under

Doyle, A. (GP)
Moss, P. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

OSPBER 60
Cityscape as History: Architecture and Urban Design in Berlin

Kramer, K. (GP)
Pabsch, M. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

OSPFLOR 15
Italy through the Florentine Piazzas

Vigotti, L. (PI)
Campani, E. (GP)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

OSPISTAN 74
Dreaming of a Cosmopolitan Sea: The Mediterranean in History

Rappas, A. (PI)
Doyle, A. (GP)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

OSPISTAN 88
History of Istanbul: Ancient to Contemporary

Ricci, A. (PI)
Doyle, A. (GP)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

OSPOXFRD 66
A Model Island in Practice

Solywoda, S. (GP)
Afanasyev, I. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

OSPPARIS 30
The Avant Garde in France through Literature, Art, and Theater

Quenault, G. (PI)
calefas-strebelle, a. (GP)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

OSPSANTG 68
The Emergence of Nations in Latin America

Jaksic, I. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

OSPSANTG 118X
Artistic Expression in Latin America

Albornoz, C. (PI)
Jaksic, I. (GP)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

POLISCI 118P
U.S. Relations with Iran

Milani, A. (PI)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Wednesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

RELIGST 56
Exploring Chinese Religions

Kieschnick, J. (PI)
Huddleston, L. (TA)

2023 - 2024
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

Not Currently Offered Courses

Title
Instructor
Quarter
Day, Time, Location

ITALIAN 101
Italy: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

2023 - 2024

INTNLREL 105C
Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives (CSRE 105C, FEMGEN 105C, HISTORY 105C, HUMRTS 112)

2023 - 2024

ARTHIST 106
Byzantine Art and Architecture, 300-1453 C.E. (ARTHIST 306, CLASSICS 171)

2023 - 2024

HUMRTS 106
Human Rights in Comparative and Historical Perspective (CLASSICS 116, CLASSICS 216, ETHICSOC 106)

2023 - 2024

OSPFLOR 11
Film, Food and the Italian Identity

2023 - 2024

SLAVIC 110
The Russian Empire, 1450-1800 (HISTORY 120A)

2023 - 2024

OSPFLOR 111Y
Florence and the Renaissance: The 15th Century

2023 - 2024

OSPFLOR 115Y
Building the Cathedral and the Town Hall: Constructing and Deconstructing Symbols of a Civilization

2023 - 2024

CLASSICS 116
Human Rights in Comparative and Historical Perspective (CLASSICS 216, ETHICSOC 106, HUMRTS 106)

2023 - 2024

HISTORY 116
Traders and Crusaders in the Medieval Mediterranean (HISTORY 16)

2023 - 2024

ILAC 119
The Memory of the Eye: Iberian Cinema from Buñuel to Almodóvar

2023 - 2024

THINK 12
Century of Violence

2023 - 2024

GERMAN 120
Contemporary Politics in Germany

2023 - 2024

HISTORY 120A
The Russian Empire, 1450-1800 (SLAVIC 110)

2023 - 2024

SLAVIC 129
Russian Versification: Poetry as System (SLAVIC 329)

2023 - 2024

TAPS 12N
To Die For: Antigone and Political Dissent (CLASSICS 17N)

2023 - 2024

GERMAN 131
What is German Literature?

2023 - 2024

GERMAN 132
Politics in 20th Century German Literature

2023 - 2024

GERMAN 133
Marx, Nietzsche, Freud

2023 - 2024

ECON 134
Wealth of Nations (POLISCI 244C)

2023 - 2024

OSPHONGK 14
China's Strategic and Diplomatic Cultures

2023 - 2024

FRENCH 140
Paris: Capital of the Modern World (FRENCH 340, HISTORY 230C, URBANST 184)

2023 - 2024

ANTHRO 147B
World Heritage in Global Conflict (ANTHRO 247B, ARCHLGY 147B)

2023 - 2024

ITALIAN 152
Boccaccio's Decameron: The Ethics of Storytelling (ITALIAN 352)

2023 - 2024

HISTORY 152K
America as a World Power in the Modern Era (INTNLREL 168, INTNLREL 168W)

2023 - 2024

INTNLREL 154
The Cold War: An International History (HISTORY 166C)

2023 - 2024

SLAVIC 156
Vladimir Nabokov: Displacement and the Liberated Eye (COMPLIT 115, COMPLIT 315, SLAVIC 356)

2023 - 2024

COMPLIT 158
Rebelión: Black Resistance in the Caribbean (AFRICAAM 158, HISTORY 177C)

2023 - 2024

HISTORY 16
Traders and Crusaders in the Medieval Mediterranean (HISTORY 116)

2023 - 2024

NATIVEAM 16
Native Americans in the 21st Century: Encounters, Identity, and Sovereignty in Contemporary America (ANTHRO 16, ARCHLGY 16)

2023 - 2024

HISTORY 166C
The Cold War: An International History (INTNLREL 154)

2023 - 2024

LINGUIST 167
Languages of the World

2023 - 2024

INTNLREL 168
America as a World Power in the Modern Era (HISTORY 152K, INTNLREL 168W)

2023 - 2024

INTNLREL 168W
America as a World Power in the Modern Era (HISTORY 152K, INTNLREL 168)

2023 - 2024

ARCHLGY 173
Heritage Institutions Inside Out: The Power of Bureaucracies

2023 - 2024

HISTORY 177C
Rebelión: Black Resistance in the Caribbean (AFRICAAM 158, COMPLIT 158)

2023 - 2024

INTNLREL 179
Major Themes in U.S.-Latin America Diplomatic History

2023 - 2024

CLASSICS 17N
To Die For: Antigone and Political Dissent (TAPS 12N)

2023 - 2024

HISTORY 183A
Enlightenment and Genocide: Modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire

2023 - 2024

CLASSICS 187
Societal Collapse (POLISCI 244D)

2023 - 2024

HISTORY 187
The Islamic Republics: Politics and Society in Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan

2023 - 2024

SLAVIC 188
20th century Russian Poetry: From Aleksandr Blok to Joseph Brodsky (SLAVIC 388)

2023 - 2024

EASTASN 189K
Korea and the World (EASTASN 289K)

2023 - 2024

SLAVIC 198
Writing Between Languages: The Case of Eastern European Jewish Literature (JEWISHST 148, JEWISHST 348, SLAVIC 398)

2023 - 2024

ARTHIST 1A
Decolonizing the Western Canon: Introduction to Art and Architecture from Prehistory to Medieval (CLASSICS 56)

2023 - 2024

HISTORY 200E
Doing Economic History

2023 - 2024

HISTORY 202S
The History of Genocide (HISTORY 402D, JEWISHST 282S, JEWISHST 482D)

2023 - 2024

HISTORY 204E
Totalitarianism (HISTORY 307E, JEWISHST 204E)

2023 - 2024

HISTORY 204G
War and Society (HISTORY 304G, REES 304G)

2023 - 2024

FRENCH 205
Songs of Love and War: Gender, Crusade, Politics (FEMGEN 205, FRENCH 305, ITALIAN 205, ITALIAN 305)

2023 - 2024

HISTORY 205K
The Age of Revolution: America, France, and Haiti (AFRICAAM 205K, HISTORY 305K)

2023 - 2024

HISTORY 20N
Russia in the Early Modern European Imagination

2023 - 2024

CLASSICS 216
Human Rights in Comparative and Historical Perspective (CLASSICS 116, ETHICSOC 106, HUMRTS 106)

2023 - 2024

GERMAN 222
Myth and Modernity (COMPLIT 222A, GERMAN 322, JEWISHST 242G, JEWISHST 342)

2023 - 2024

HISTORY 227D
All Quiet on the Eastern Front? East Europe and Russia in the First World War (HISTORY 327D, REES 227, REES 327)

2023 - 2024

HISTORY 230C
Paris: Capital of the Modern World (FRENCH 140, FRENCH 340, URBANST 184)

2023 - 2024

GERMAN 237
Fascism after Fascism (COMPLIT 237)

2023 - 2024

HISTORY 23N
The Soviet Union and the World: View from the Hoover Archives

2023 - 2024

ILAC 240E
Borges and Philosophy

2023 - 2024

HISTORY 243G
Tobacco and Health in World History: How Big Nic created the template for global science denial (HISTORY 343G)

2023 - 2024

POLISCI 244D
Societal Collapse (CLASSICS 187)

2023 - 2024

GLOBAL 249A
The Iranian Cinema: Image and Meaning

2023 - 2024

OSPHONGK 25
Cultural History of China

2023 - 2024

SLAVIC 251
Dostoevsky: Narrative Performance and Literary Theory

2023 - 2024

FRENCH 265
The Problem of Evil in Literature, Film, and Philosophy (POLISCI 338E)

2023 - 2024

JEWISHST 282S
The History of Genocide (HISTORY 202S, HISTORY 402D, JEWISHST 482D)

2023 - 2024

HISTORY 283E
Empire and Resistance in the Modern Middle East

2023 - 2024

HISTORY 283F
Capital and Crisis in the Middle East and the World

2023 - 2024

HISTORY 284
The Ottoman Empire: Conquest, Coexistence, and Coffee (HISTORY 384)

2023 - 2024

HISTORY 284F
Empires, Markets and Networks: Early Modern Islamic World Between Europe and China, 1400-1900 (HISTORY 384F)

2023 - 2024

HISTORY 293F
Chinese Politics and Society (HISTORY 393F, SOC 217B, SOC 317B)

2023 - 2024

REES 301B
Eastern European Cinema (FILMEDIA 245B, FILMEDIA 445B)

2023 - 2024

OSPFLOR 34
The Virgin Mother, Goddess of Beauty, Grand Duchess, and the Lady: Women in Florentine Art

2023 - 2024

HISTORY 384
The Ottoman Empire: Conquest, Coexistence, and Coffee (HISTORY 284)

2023 - 2024

HISTORY 402B
Coffee, Sugar, and Chocolate: Commodities and Consumption in World History, 1200-1800 (ARTHIST 102B, ARTHIST 302B, HISTORY 202B, HISTORY 302B)

2023 - 2024

POLISCI 46N
Contemporary African Politics

2023 - 2024

OSPFLOR 48
Sharing Beauty in Florence: Collectors, Collections and the Shaping of the Western Museum Tradition

2023 - 2024

OSPFLOR 49
On-Screen Battles: Filmic Portrayals of Fascism and World War II

2023 - 2024

AFRICAAM 49S
African Futures: Nationalism, Pan-Africanism, and Beyond (HISTORY 49S)

2023 - 2024

INTNLREL 5C
Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives (CSRE 5C, FEMGEN 5C, HISTORY 5C)

2023 - 2024

THINK 60
American Enemies

2023 - 2024

OSPFLOR 64
Colonial Heritage, Euro-Mediterranean Relations, Migrations, Multiculturalism

2023 - 2024

HISTORY 67S
The Vietnam War/The American War

2023 - 2024

OSPBER 70
The Long Way to the West: German History from the 18th Century to the Present

2023 - 2024

OSPOXFRD 76
Access, Distinction and Material Culture through Coffee

2023 - 2024

SLAVIC 77Q
Russia's Weird Classic: Nikolai Gogol

2023 - 2024

OSPMADRD 80
Word, Image and Power

2023 - 2024

INTNLREL 82
The Ending of World War I: Three Perspectives

2023 - 2024

HISTORY 83A
Enlightenment and Genocide: Modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire

2023 - 2024

ARCHLGY 84
Incas, Spaniards, and Africans: Archaeology of the Kingdom of Peru (ANTHRO 84B)

2023 - 2024

ANTHRO 84B
Incas, Spaniards, and Africans: Archaeology of the Kingdom of Peru (ARCHLGY 84)

2023 - 2024

HISTORY 85B
Jews in the Contemporary World: Culture, Pop Culture, and Representation (JEWISHST 85B, REES 85B)

2023 - 2024

HISTORY 87
The Islamic Republics: Politics and Society in Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan

2023 - 2024

HISTORY 8S
Whales, Bombs, & the Race to the Bottom: Oceanic Histories of Law, Environmentalism, & Human Rights

2023 - 2024

OSPPARIS 92
Building Paris: Its History, Architecture, and Urban Design

2023 - 2024