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Title
Instructor
Quarter
Day, Time, Location

AFRICAAM 133
Literature and Society in Africa and the Caribbean (COMPLIT 133, COMPLIT 233A, CSRE 133E, FRENCH 133, JEWISHST 143)

2025 - 2026
Spring

AFRICAAM 133
Literature and Society in Africa and the Caribbean (COMPLIT 133, COMPLIT 233A, CSRE 133E, FRENCH 133, JEWISHST 143)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

CSRE 133E
Literature and Society in Africa and the Caribbean (AFRICAAM 133, COMPLIT 133, COMPLIT 233A, FRENCH 133, JEWISHST 143)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

FRENCH 133
Literature and Society in Africa and the Caribbean (AFRICAAM 133, COMPLIT 133, COMPLIT 233A, CSRE 133E, JEWISHST 143)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

HISTORY 85B
Jews in the Contemporary World (JEWISHST 85B, REES 85B)

2025 - 2026
Spring

HISTORY 185B
Jews in the Contemporary World (CSRE 185B, JEWISHST 185B, REES 185B, SLAVIC 183)

2025 - 2026
Spring

HISTORY 252B
Diplomacy on the Ground: Case Studies in the Challenges of Representing Your Country (INTNLREL 174)

2025 - 2026
Spring

INTNLREL 174
Diplomacy on the Ground: Case Studies in the Challenges of Representing Your Country (HISTORY 252B)

2025 - 2026
Spring

AFRICAAM 145B
Foundations of African Studies I (HISTORY 145B)

Cabrita, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

ANTHRO 27N
Ethnicity, Race, and Violence: Anthropological Perspectives (CSRE 27N)

Thiranagama, S. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

ANTHRO 197C
The Structure of Colonial Power: South Asia since the Eighteenth Century (ASNAMST 197C, HISTORY 197C)

Gnanaseharan, M. (TA)
Shil, P. (PI)

2025 - 2026
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

Flores, M. (TA)
Evans, B. (TA)
Horan, S. (TA)
Singh, A. (TA)
Vuong, I. (TA)
Nemerov, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
11:30 AM
12:50 PM

CLASSICS 187
Societal Collapse (POLISCI 244D)

Mejia Cubillos, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

EASTASN 188
The Asian Triangle: Japan, Korea and China (EASTASN 288, INTLPOL 288)

Sneider, D. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

EASTASN 277
Divided Memories & Reconciliation: the formation of wartime historical memory in the Pacific (EASTASN 177)

Sneider, D. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

EASTASN 288
The Asian Triangle: Japan, Korea and China (EASTASN 188, INTLPOL 288)

Sneider, D. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

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

Afanasyev, I. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Thursday
9:30 AM
11:20 AM

FEMGEN 101
Introduction to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (AMSTUD 107, CSRE 108, HISTORY 108A)

Jean-Baptiste, R. (PI)
Kazem, H. (PI)
Nunez, A. (PI)
Lopez, Z. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

GLOBAL 101
Critical Issues in Global Affairs

Kuhns, K. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

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

Vardi, G. (PI)
Baudler, E. (PI)
Stark, L. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

HISTORY 98
The History of Modern China

Mullaney, T. (PI)
Booska, K. (PI)
Hou, X. (TA)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
9:00 AM
10:20 AM

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

Vardi, G. (PI)
Baudler, E. (PI)
Stark, L. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

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

Pushel, L. (TA)
Kollmann, N. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:20 AM

HISTORY 145B
Foundations of African Studies I (AFRICAAM 145B)

Cabrita, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

HISTORY 197C
The Structure of Colonial Power: South Asia since the Eighteenth Century (ANTHRO 197C, ASNAMST 197C)

Gnanaseharan, M. (TA)
Shil, P. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

HISTORY 198
The History of Modern China

Mullaney, T. (PI)
Booska, K. (PI)
Hou, X. (TA)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
9:00 AM
10:20 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)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday
3:00 PM
5:50 PM

HISTORY 210G
The Great War (INTNLREL 182)

Vardi, G. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

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

Proctor, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

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

Rakove, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

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

Yaycioglu, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday
1:30 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)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday
3:00 PM
5:50 PM

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

Rakove, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

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

Yaycioglu, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

ILAC 130
Introduction to Iberia: Cultural Perspectives

Resina, J. (PI)
Ryu, J. (TA)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

ILAC 161
Modern Latin American Literature (ILAC 361)

Hoyos, H. (PI)
Lemus, D. (TA)
Guarna, T. (TA)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

INTLPOL 288
The Asian Triangle: Japan, Korea and China (EASTASN 188, EASTASN 288)

Sneider, D. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

INTNLREL 103F
Introduction to Modern Military History

Vardi, G. (PI)
Baudler, E. (PI)
Stark, L. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

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

Rakove, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

INTNLREL 182
The Great War (HISTORY 210G)

Vardi, G. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

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

Doyle, A. (GP)
Jones, N. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

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

Pabsch, M. (PI)
Lohrmann, U. (GP)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

OSPFLOR 15
Lunchtime Talks: Cracking the Italian Code

Campani, E. (GP)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

OSPFLOR 87F
Global Transformations and Ethical Visions: Lessons and Legacies from the Cold War

Pons, S. (PI)
Campani, E. (GP)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

OSPHONGK 25
Cultural History of China

Doyle, A. (GP)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

OSPOXFRD 93
Collecting the World

Landrus, M. (PI)
Gerrard, D. (GP)
Afanasyev, I. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

OSPPARIS 24
Spotlights on French Culture and Society

Molkou, E. (PI)
calefas-strebelle, a. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

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

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

2025 - 2026
Autumn

OSPPARIS 94
Post Colonial Paris

Ulloa, M. (PI)
calefas-strebelle, a. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

POLISCI 244D
Societal Collapse (CLASSICS 187)

Mejia Cubillos, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

Not Currently Offered Courses

Title
Instructor
Quarter
Day, Time, Location

RELIGST 1
Religion Around the Globe

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

INTNLREL 104E
Totalitarianism (HISTORY 204E, HISTORY 307E, JEWISHST 204E, POLISCI 204E)

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

HISTORY 10C
Modern Europe's Lives

2025 - 2026

OSPFLOR 11
Film, Food and the Italian Identity

2025 - 2026

HISTORY 110C
Modern Europe's Lives

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

OSPSANTG 118X
Artistic Expression in Latin America

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

INTNLREL 127
The World and America (POLISCI 217)

2025 - 2026

ITALIAN 127
Inventing Italian Literature: Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarca

2025 - 2026

ITALIAN 128
Word and Image from the Middle Ages to Modernity

2025 - 2026

OSPKYOTO 13
Contemporary Religion in Japan's Ancient Capital: Sustaining and Recasting Tradition

2025 - 2026

FRENCH 130
Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance French Literature

2025 - 2026

FRENCH 131
Absolutism, Enlightenment, and Revolution in 17th- and 18th-Century France

2025 - 2026

GERMAN 131
What is German Literature?

2025 - 2026

GERMAN 132
Politics in 20th Century German Literature

2025 - 2026

OSPHONGK 14
China's Strategic and Diplomatic Cultures

2025 - 2026

OSPKYOCT 142
Japan in East Asia

2025 - 2026

ENGLISH 144B
Contemporary British Fiction: History, Language, Place

2025 - 2026

COMPLIT 145
Reflections on the Other: Literature from the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict (CSRE 145A, JEWISHST 106)

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

SLAVIC 156
Vladimir Nabokov: Displacement and the Liberated Eye (COMPLIT 173, COMPLIT 273, SLAVIC 356)

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

LINGUIST 167
Languages of the World

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

HISTORY 178
Film and History of Latin American Revolutions and Counterrevolutions (FILMEDIA 178, HISTORY 78, ILAC 178)

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

HISTORY 181B
Making the Modern Middle East

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

HISTORY 196C
Resisting Empire: Anti-colonial Nationalism, Popular Politics & Decolonization in Modern South Asia (ASNAMST 96C, ASNAMST 196C, FEMGEN 96C, FEMGEN 196C, HISTORY 96C)

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

HISTORY 204E
Totalitarianism (HISTORY 307E, INTNLREL 104E, JEWISHST 204E, POLISCI 204E)

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

HISTORY 20N
Russia in the Early Modern European Imagination

2025 - 2026

OSPFLOR 21
"Oh no - the Turks!": Italy and the Islamic Mediterranean

2025 - 2026

POLISCI 217
The World and America (INTNLREL 127)

2025 - 2026

ARTHIST 222
Looted Art: Histories and Restitution

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

HISTORY 226D
The Holocaust: Insights from New Research (HISTORY 326D, JEWISHST 226E, JEWISHST 326D)

2025 - 2026

JEWISHST 226E
The Holocaust: Insights from New Research (HISTORY 226D, HISTORY 326D, JEWISHST 326D)

2025 - 2026

FRENCH 228E
Getting Through Proust

2025 - 2026

GERMAN 237
Fascism after Fascism (COMPLIT 237)

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

AFRICAAM 243
History of West Africa (FEMGEN 246A, FEMGEN 346A, HISTORY 246A, HISTORY 346A)

2025 - 2026

HISTORY 246A
History of West Africa (AFRICAAM 243, FEMGEN 246A, FEMGEN 346A, HISTORY 346A)

2025 - 2026

HISTORY 247
Gender and Sexuality in African History (AFRICAAM 247, FEMGEN 247, FEMGEN 347, HISTORY 347)

2025 - 2026

GLOBAL 249A
The Iranian Cinema: Image and Meaning (COMPLIT 249A)

2025 - 2026

ILAC 251
Iberian Expansion: One World or Many (COMPLIT 251A, COMPLIT 351A, CSRE 251, CSRE 351, HISTORY 271C, HISTORY 371C, ILAC 351)

2025 - 2026

SLAVIC 251
Dostoevsky: Narrative Performance and Literary Theory

2025 - 2026

COMPLIT 251A
Iberian Expansion: One World or Many (COMPLIT 351A, CSRE 251, CSRE 351, HISTORY 271C, HISTORY 371C, ILAC 251, ILAC 351)

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

HISTORY 271C
Iberian Expansion: One World or Many (COMPLIT 251A, COMPLIT 351A, CSRE 251, CSRE 351, HISTORY 371C, ILAC 251, ILAC 351)

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

HISTORY 283E
Empire and Resistance in the Modern Middle East

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

JEWISHST 288A
Palestine, Zionism, Israel: 150 Years of Conflict (HISTORY 288A)

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

JEWISHST 31Q
Resistance and Collaboration in Hitler's Europe (HISTORY 31Q)

2025 - 2026

JEWISHST 326D
The Holocaust: Insights from New Research (HISTORY 226D, HISTORY 326D, JEWISHST 226E)

2025 - 2026

HISTORY 346A
History of West Africa (AFRICAAM 243, FEMGEN 246A, FEMGEN 346A, HISTORY 246A)

2025 - 2026

HISTORY 347
Gender and Sexuality in African History (AFRICAAM 247, FEMGEN 247, FEMGEN 347, HISTORY 247)

2025 - 2026

ILAC 351
Iberian Expansion: One World or Many (COMPLIT 251A, COMPLIT 351A, CSRE 251, CSRE 351, HISTORY 271C, HISTORY 371C, ILAC 251)

2025 - 2026

COMPLIT 351A
Iberian Expansion: One World or Many (COMPLIT 251A, CSRE 251, CSRE 351, HISTORY 271C, HISTORY 371C, ILAC 251, ILAC 351)

2025 - 2026

HISTORY 35Q
Convict Australia: "Rogues," "Whores," and "Savages"

2025 - 2026

HISTORY 371C
Iberian Expansion: One World or Many (COMPLIT 251A, COMPLIT 351A, CSRE 251, CSRE 351, HISTORY 271C, ILAC 251, ILAC 351)

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

OSPMADRD 43
The Jacobean Star Way and Europe: Society, Politics and Culture

2025 - 2026

POLISCI 46N
Contemporary African Politics

2025 - 2026

OSPMADRD 47
Cultural Relations between Spain and the United States:Historical Perceptions and Influences

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

OSPISTAN 56
Exploring Contemporary Turkiye

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

RELIGST 61
Exploring Islam

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

INTNLREL 65Q
Soft Power and Geopolitics: The Art of Influence

2025 - 2026

OSPOXFRD 66
A Model Island in Practice

2025 - 2026

OSPSANTG 68
The Emergence of Nations in Latin America

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

OSPOXFRD 76
Access, Distinction and Material Culture through Coffee

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

SLAVIC 77Q
Russia's Weird Classic: Nikolai Gogol

2025 - 2026

HISTORY 78
Film and History of Latin American Revolutions and Counterrevolutions (FILMEDIA 178, HISTORY 178, ILAC 178)

2025 - 2026

MUSIC 7B
Musical Cultures of the World

2025 - 2026

OSPMADRD 80
Word, Image and Power

2025 - 2026

HISTORY 81B
Making the Modern Middle East

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

JEWISHST 88
Palestine, Zionism, Israel: 150 Years of Conflict (HISTORY 88)

2025 - 2026

OSPISTAN 88
History of Istanbul: Ancient to Contemporary

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

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

2025 - 2026

HISTORY 96C
Resisting Empire: Anti-colonial Nationalism, Popular Politics & Decolonization in Modern South Asia (ASNAMST 96C, ASNAMST 196C, FEMGEN 96C, FEMGEN 196C, HISTORY 196C)

2025 - 2026

HISTORY 96N
World War II in Asia

2025 - 2026