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Title
Instructor
Quarter
Day, Time, Location

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

2024 - 2025
Winter

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

Parker, G. (PI)
Ayodele, M. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

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

Nemerov, A. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
11:30 AM
12:50 PM

ARTHIST 149
Introduction to Islamic Art (ISLAMST 149C)

Blessing, P. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

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

Maxmin, J. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

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

Maxmin, J. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

CLASSICS 187
Societal Collapse (POLISCI 244D)

Mejia Cubillos, J. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

COMPLIT 100
CAPITALS: How Cities Shape Cultures, States, and People (DLCL 100, FRENCH 175, GERMAN 175, HISTORY 206E, ILAC 175, ITALIAN 175, URBANST 153)

Pesic, A. (PI)
Daub, A. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:20 AM

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

Shemtov, V. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Wednesday
12:30 PM
2:20 PM

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

Beyzaie, B. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Thursday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

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

Seck, F. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

DLCL 100
CAPITALS: How Cities Shape Cultures, States, and People (COMPLIT 100, FRENCH 175, GERMAN 175, HISTORY 206E, ILAC 175, ITALIAN 175, URBANST 153)

Pesic, A. (PI)
Daub, A. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:20 AM

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

Sneider, D. (PI)

2024 - 2025
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)

2024 - 2025
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)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

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

Afanasyev, I. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Thursday
9:30 AM
11:20 AM

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

Jean-Baptiste, R. (PI)
Kazem, H. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

FRENCH 130
Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance French Literature

Edmondson, C. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

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

Seck, F. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

FRENCH 175
CAPITALS: How Cities Shape Cultures, States, and People (COMPLIT 100, DLCL 100, GERMAN 175, HISTORY 206E, ILAC 175, ITALIAN 175, URBANST 153)

Pesic, A. (PI)
Daub, A. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:20 AM

GERMAN 175
CAPITALS: How Cities Shape Cultures, States, and People (COMPLIT 100, DLCL 100, FRENCH 175, HISTORY 206E, ILAC 175, ITALIAN 175, URBANST 153)

Pesic, A. (PI)
Daub, A. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:20 AM

GLOBAL 101
Critical Issues in Global Affairs

Kuhns, K. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

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

Beyzaie, B. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Thursday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

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

Vardi, G. (PI)
Pushel, L. (TA)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

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

Burkett, M. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

HISTORY 45B
Introduction to African Studies I: Africa in the 20th Century

Parker, G. (PI)
Ayodele, M. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

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

Altaras, N. (TA)
Beinin, J. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
9:30 AM
10:50 AM

HISTORY 93
The Chinese Empire from the Mongol Invasion to the Boxer Uprising (CHINA 93, FEMGEN 93)

Javers, Q. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

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

Vardi, G. (PI)
Pushel, L. (TA)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

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

Parker, G. (PI)
Ayodele, M. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

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

Rakove, R. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
9:30 AM
10:20 AM

HISTORY 193
The Chinese Empire from the Mongol Invasion to the Boxer Uprising (CHINA 183, FEMGEN 193)

Javers, Q. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

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

Olivarius, K. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

HISTORY 206E
CAPITALS: How Cities Shape Cultures, States, and People (COMPLIT 100, DLCL 100, FRENCH 175, GERMAN 175, ILAC 175, ITALIAN 175, URBANST 153)

Pesic, A. (PI)
Daub, A. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:20 AM

HISTORY 210G
The Great War (INTNLREL 182)

Vardi, G. (PI)

2024 - 2025
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)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

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

Beinin, J. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday
4:30 PM
5:50 PM

ILAC 130
Introduction to Iberia: Cultural Perspectives

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

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

ILAC 161
Modern Latin American Literature

Hoyos, H. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

ILAC 175
CAPITALS: How Cities Shape Cultures, States, and People (COMPLIT 100, DLCL 100, FRENCH 175, GERMAN 175, HISTORY 206E, ITALIAN 175, URBANST 153)

Pesic, A. (PI)
Daub, A. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:20 AM

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

Sneider, D. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

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

McCoy, H. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

INTNLREL 103F
Introduction to Modern Military History

Vardi, G. (PI)
Pushel, L. (TA)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

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

Rakove, R. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
9:30 AM
10:20 AM

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

O'Keefe, T. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

INTNLREL 182
The Great War (HISTORY 210G)

Vardi, G. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

ITALIAN 175
CAPITALS: How Cities Shape Cultures, States, and People (COMPLIT 100, DLCL 100, FRENCH 175, GERMAN 175, HISTORY 206E, ILAC 175, URBANST 153)

Pesic, A. (PI)
Daub, A. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:20 AM

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

Altaras, N. (TA)
Beinin, J. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
9:30 AM
10:50 AM

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

Beinin, J. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday
4:30 PM
5:50 PM

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

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

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Not Currently Offered Courses

Title
Instructor
Quarter
Day, Time, Location

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

HISTORY 10B
Renaissance to Revolution: Early Modern Europe

2024 - 2025

HISTORY 10C
Modern Europe's Lives

2024 - 2025

OSPFLOR 11
Film, Food and the Italian Identity

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

HISTORY 110B
Renaissance to Revolution: Early Modern Europe

2024 - 2025

HISTORY 110C
Modern Europe's Lives

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

POLISCI 118P
U.S. Relations with Iran

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

ITALIAN 127
Inventing Italian Literature: Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarca

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

GERMAN 131
What is German Literature?

2024 - 2025

GERMAN 132
Politics in 20th Century German Literature

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

HISTORY 139
Modern Britain and the Empire, 1688-2016

2024 - 2025

OSPHONGK 14
China's Strategic and Diplomatic Cultures

2024 - 2025

OSPKYOCT 142
Japan in East Asia

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

AFRICAAM 147
History of South Africa (CSRE 174, HISTORY 147)

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

LINGUIST 167
Languages of the World

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

HISTORY 194B
Japan in the Age of the Samurai

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

HISTORY 20N
Russia in the Early Modern European Imagination

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

FRENCH 228E
Getting Through Proust

2024 - 2025

TAPS 22N
Culture, Conflict, and the Modern Middle East

2024 - 2025

SLAVIC 230
18th Century Russian Literature

2024 - 2025

GERMAN 237
Fascism after Fascism (COMPLIT 237)

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

ILAC 240E
Borges and Philosophy

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

OSPHONGK 25
Cultural History of China

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

SLAVIC 251
Dostoevsky: Narrative Performance and Literary Theory

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

ANTHRO 27N
Ethnicity and Violence: Anthropological Perspectives

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

HISTORY 283E
Empire and Resistance in the Modern Middle East

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

HISTORY 39
Modern Britain and the Empire, 1688-2016

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

POLISCI 46N
Contemporary African Politics

2024 - 2025

AFRICAAM 47
History of South Africa (CSRE 74, HISTORY 47)

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

RELIGST 61
Exploring Islam

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

OSPOXFRD 76
Access, Distinction and Material Culture through Coffee

2024 - 2025

SLAVIC 77Q
Russia's Weird Classic: Nikolai Gogol

2024 - 2025

OSPMADRD 80
Word, Image and Power

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

HISTORY 86Q
Blood and Money: The Origins of Antisemitism (JEWISHST 86Q)

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025

HISTORY 94B
Japan in the Age of the Samurai

2024 - 2025

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

2024 - 2025