Winter Quarter
| Dept | Course No and Title | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| HISTORY (W26) | 12 CHINESE COMM PARTY | BAUM, E. |
| The twentieth century saw the rise and fall of multiple communist regimes around the world, from Cuba and the Soviet Union to Cambodia and Vietnam. One of the regimes that has survived into the present is the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This course will explore the origins, establishment, rise to power, and historical endurance of the CCP. By focusing on certain key actors and crucial inflection points at which the CCP's existence came under threat, the course will grapple with the following questions: Why has the CCP remained in power when so many other communist regimes have not? What explains the CCP's endurance in the face of adverse conditions, including civil war, internecine rivalries, and popular discontent? And given what we've learned about the CCP's history, what predictions can we make about its future? | ||
| HISTORY (W26) | 15B THE U.S. & ASIA | WU, J. |
| Explores the historical and contemporary transnational linkages between the U.S. and regions in Asia and their resultant flows of people, goods, and ideas. Attention given to the role of militarism and processes of globalization, and the histories of cultural contact/conflict. Same as AsianAm 51 | ||
| HISTORY (W26) | 16A WORLD RELIGIONS I | MCKENNA, J. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| HISTORY (W26) | 21B WORLD:EMPIRE&REVOLT | COLLER, I. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| HISTORY (W26) | 36B CLASSICAL GREECE | HERNANDEZ, A. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| HISTORY (W26) | 36C 4TH C/HELLEN GR | BRANSCOME, D. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| HISTORY (W26) | 40B 19C US:CRISIS&EXPAN | DE VERA, S. |
| Explores the transformation of American society, economy, and politics during the nineteenth century. Topics include industrial revolution, slavery, antislavery, women's rights, reform movements, Civil War and Reconstruction, immigration and ethnicity, and cultural and social transformation. Prerequisite: Satisfaction of the UC Entry Level Writing requirement. *Due to demand for this course, we may not be able to accommodate all enrollment requests. It is recommended that you enroll as soon as your enrollment window opens and, if the course is full, check the schedule regularly for openings on the waitlists. Please contact the academic advising office at your school if you have any questions regarding the university requirements. See FAQs at: https://www.humanities.uci.edu/history/undergrad/faq.php. | ||
| HISTORY (W26) | 40B 19C US:CRISIS&EXPAN | DE VERA, S. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| HISTORY (W26) | 70A JPN:SAMURAI-POKEMON | FEDMAN, D. |
| In the century and a half since Commodore Matthew C. Perry arrived in Japan to “open” the country, what was an obscure archipelago has become the first non-Western nation to industrialize and the second largest economy in the world (a status it maintained until recently). This remarkable transformation brought modernization as well as social dislocation, democracy as well as imperialism, affluence as well as devastating war. This course examines how ordinary men and women experienced these extraordinary changes and contradictions that shaped Japan’s dynamic transformation as well as its relationship to Asia and the wider world. The assigned readings will focus on the lived experience of individual Japanese across social classes and regions, from a farmer drafting Japan’s constitution in a remote mountain village and a young girl working in a thread mill in the late nineteenth century, to a salaryman living the miracle as well as the malaise of post-war Japanese economy. We will explore these narratives as they have been construed by historical actors and by historians, and examine modern Japanese history as an on-going debate and process in which Japan has constantly renovated itself while inventing new traditions. (IV, VIII) | ||
| HISTORY (W26) | 70C AFAM HIST:1887-PRES | MALCZEWSKI, J. |
| This course explores the African American experience in the United States from the end of Reconstruction to the present, tracing the evolution of community, culture and politics. The course will examine major themes including Jim Crow and its legacies, migration, urbanization, education and culture, civil rights, and Black Power movements. Through a blend of primary and secondary sources, students will analyze how African Americans have not only responded to but also profoundly influenced the social, political, and cultural transformations of modern American life. | ||
| HISTORY (W26) | 70D LAT AM:COL&NATION | BORUCKI, A. |
| There are few original civilizations in world history, so it is noteworthy that the peoples of the Americas would have generated two of them –Mesoamerica in the North, and the Andes in the south. Even before the arrival of the Spanish and the Portuguese, the Americas was a complex amalgam of cultural identities and differences. Imperium –political, religious, and aesthetic –was possible only once the idea of cultural purity was abandoned in Colonial Latin America. This course will cover the rise and fall of the largest and most populated colonial empire of the early modern era –the Spanish monarchy– and then, the nineteenth-century encounters of the new Latin American republics with the rising hemispheric power of the United States, which represented for the now “Latin Americans” a challenge for their new conceptions of sovereignty, freedom, and equality. (GE: IV, VIII) | ||
| HISTORY (W26) | 70F FIRST ENCOUNTERS | SEED, P. |
| Arriving in the New World for the first time, Europeans encountered scores of different people and cultures that they had never imagined even existed. The course traces the history of first contacts from 1492 through present-day rendezvous with inhabitants of remote areas including Brazil and Papua New Guinea. (GE: IV, VIII) | ||
| HISTORY (W26) | 100W LONDON AND FILM | CHATURVEDI, V |
| This class examines the History of London through films, documentaries, and other sources. London became transformed into a world city--some argued it was the most important city in the modern world. How did London reach this status? To answer this question, we will explore texts and films that represent the diversity and complexity of the city, including its popular culture, immigration, industrialization, imperialism, urban crimes, music scene, and spy networks. The course will be organized around several films, such as “The Prestige,” “A Christmas Carol,” “Children of Men,” “The Elephant Man,” “Skyfall,” “My Beautiful Launderette,” “The Lodger," “Victoria & Abdul." | ||
| HISTORY (W26) | 100W POPULISM | ROBERTSON, J. |
| Few terms are as bandied around in the current political moment as “populism.” Whether used to describe the Christian nationalism of Hungary’s Viktor Orban, the democratic socialism of Bernie Sanders, or even the anti-political revolt of the French gilet jaunes, it has become a codeword to describe our new era of political disorder. Populism has long been a contested term. For some, it is a derogatory slur, evoking a politics of the angry, irrational, or dangerous mob; for others, it is a rallying cry to overturn the rule of a disconnected or decadent political elite. This course will introduce students to the theory and history of populism, from its roots in the late-19C US and Russia to the current explosion of anti-establishment political sentiment. How can we identify populism? Is it better understood as an ideology or a “style” of politics or even as a historical moment? Given the capacious use of the term, does “populism” actually mean anything? And if we are in the throes of a populist resurgence, how should we understand our current moment within a longer historical timeline? We will use these questions to study how historians and other social scientists write about complex socio-political phenomena over time. We will consider how scholarly writers use historical evidence, how they rely on comparison as both a scientific method and rhetorical device, and how they translate the technical jargon of their field into writing for a broader public. | ||
| HISTORY (W26) | 100W FBI & BLACK FREEDOM | GRIFFEY, T. |
| This course provides students with an introduction to different ways to write about US history: reviews of academic scholarship and popular culture sources, analysis and contextualization of historical sources, and writing about history for a popular audience. Students will develop these skills by learning to evaluate domestic intelligence documents produced by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) about the US Black Freedom Movement. | ||
| HISTORY (W26) | 114 ECHOES OF EMPIRE | BROADBENT, P. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| HISTORY (W26) | 131C MEDIEVAL PERSIA | DARYAEE, T. |
| This course is a survey of Iranian history in the context of Late Antique and Medieval Islamic History. We shall attempt to present a view that Iranshahr (Realm of Iranians), could be studied as a separate cultural center amidst the Islamic world. We will begin with the rise of the last great Sasanian king of kings, Khusro I in the 6th CE to through the Mongol conquest and the Il-Khanid settlement in the 14th century CE. During this time period Iranshahr went through much political and religious upheaval and changes which is usually studied in the context of Medieval Islamic history. The aim of this course is to focus on the Perso-Islamicate world which includes the modern countries of Central Asia (Afghanistan, Uzbekestan, Tajikestan) and the Caucasus (Armenia, Georgia, R. of Azarbijan), as well as Mesopotamia (Iraq) (Satisfies Pre-1800 Requirement) | ||
| HISTORY (W26) | 132D ARMENIANS ANC/EARLY | BERBERIAN, H. |
| History 132D explores the history of Armenia and Armenians from ethnogenesis to the early modern period at the end of the 1700s within a regional and global context, which takes into account interactions and encounters with the empires and peoples that encompassed their orbit. It focuses on a number of key moments in the Armenian past that are crucial to understanding contemporary Armenian culture, identity, and memory: the politics of national identity and “ethnogenesis,” conversion to Christianity, invention of the Armenian script, the battle of Vardanank, the development of the global Armenian diaspora, print culture, national revival, early liberation movements, as well as relations between Armenians and their neighbors: Persians, Romans, Muslims, and others | ||
| HISTORY (W26) | 134C PAN-AFRICAN THOUGHT | MILLER, R. |
| This course examines the development of Pan-Africanism beginning in the late nineteenth century and unfolding over the course of the twentieth century. The course explores some of the major intellectual currents within Pan-Africanist discourse, and the contributions of various intellectuals whose ideas have helped shape Pan-Africanist traditions. We will begin by considering some of the pre-colonial encounters between African and European societies during the era of American chattel slavery. The course will then examine the writings of Black intellectuals and organizers in the Americas who helped lay the foundation for Pan-Africanism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We will then return to the African continent and consider the ideas of theorists and political leaders associated with numerous African independence movements during the era of decolonization. The course will also consider expressions of Pan-Africanism articulated by African-American women and men who organized through political formations like the Black Panther Party and the Republic of New Afrika. It will end with a discussion of more recent expressions of Pan-Africanism including the emergence of the Alliance of Sahel States. Throughout the course, we will consider how race, class, gender, religion, coloniality, notions of African Diasporic connectivity, struggles for self-determination, and third-world solidarities have all helped shape conceptions of Pan-Africanism over time. (All readings will be made available through canvas. Students will not be expected to purchase any books for the course. Page numbers for assigned readings are subject to change at any time during the quarter. Students will be given advanced notice of any such changes.) | ||
| HISTORY (W26) | 134E AFRICAN DIASPORA | MILLER, R. |
| The concept of Diaspora has played a central role in guiding the identity formations of people of African descent in the Americas, as well as the social, political, and religious movements they constructed from the period of trans-Atlantic slavery to the present. Notions of an African Diaspora have been theorized, articulated, and utilized by Black intellectuals, organizers, and everyday people in a myriad of ways. This class seeks to historicize and examine the idea of an African Diaspora and the movements for Black self-determination it helped to inspire. We will begin by discussing varying theorizations of Diaspora, along with major debates regarding historical, cultural, and political connections between people of African descent around the world and those on the African continent. Subsequent course readings will be organized around several themes including: pan-Africanism, the political economy of the trans-Atlantic and trans-Saharan slave trades, African retentions and transferals, Black religious nationalism, Africans in Asia and the Middle East, Black resistance and Black Power, recent African immigration, and competing notions/meanings of Blackness. All these topics will be examined within a transnational context and with special consideration for the dynamics of class, gender, and national identity. | ||
| HISTORY (W26) | 144G US TOPICS | GRIFFEY, T. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| HISTORY (W26) | 144G CHCLAT CIVIL RIGHTS | LARA, G. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| HISTORY (W26) | 152 KOREAN ADOPTION | LEE, J. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| HISTORY (W26) | 154 AMER URBAN HIST | HIGHSMITH, A. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| HISTORY (W26) | 160 SEX&CONQUEST LAT AM | O'TOOLE, R. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| HISTORY (W26) | 169 MEXICO:PAST&PRESENT | DUNCAN, R. |
| Mexico is an enigma—from tropical rainforests to searing deserts, pinnacles of wealth to depths of despair, it is a land of extremes. On the verge of collapse more than once, Mexico now boasts one of the world’s largest economies. This course introduces students to the story of Mexico’s formation and evolution from colonial times to the present. This will be a broad analysis of the place that history has played in national political structures, economic formations, and social movements. We will examine the indigenous roots of pre-Columbian Mexico, the impact of conquest and colonization, the struggle of nation-building, revolution, reconstruction, and development. Particular attention will focus on the forces—both internal and external—that have contributed to shaping a Mexican identity. These issues will be covered through lectures, videos, and primary/secondary readings. | ||
| HISTORY (W26) | 171G REBELS & PROTESTERS | WASSERSTROM, J. |
| Chinese history is filled with dramatic events that challenged and sometimes even toppled those in power. This course will focus on the people involved in some of the most interesting of these that took place during the Qing era (1644-1912), the Republican era (1912-1949), and the people since the 1949 founding of the People’s Republic of China. Students will learn about and explore documents relating to fascinating events such as the Taiping Uprising (1850-1864), the Boxer Uprising (1899-1900), the May 4th Movement (1919), the Tiananmen protests (1989), and the Hong Kong struggles of 2014 and 2019. They will also learn about and discuss the meaning of the lives of men like Sun Yat-sen, women like Qiu Jin, and groups like the Red Guards. No previous knowledge of Chinese history is required. | ||
| HISTORY (W26) | 174G REL & COL IN S ASIA | NATH, N. |
| This course introduces students to the history of South Asia through the politics of religion. South Asia is the birthplace of major world religions, including Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Sarnaism, and Hinduism, and is also home to some of the world’s oldest and, in some cases, largest, populations of Muslims, Zoroastrians, Jews, and Christians. Why have scholars argued that mutually exclusive religious identities and religious antagonisms primarily emerged after colonial rule in the nineteenth century? The course will refute narratives that portray South Asian history as one indelibly shaped by religion and religious conflicts. We will assess the ways that colonialism remade religious boundaries and contributed to the causes of the Partition of India and Pakistan. In particular, we will ask how inequalities of caste, gender, and class shaped the making of religious “majorities” and “minorities.” Lastly, we will consider how religion has served both as the grounds for nationalist movements and as a terrain of anti-caste struggle in post-colonial South Asia. Course materials include translated poetry and literature, oral histories, and film. | ||
| HISTORY (W26) | 172G GENDER & PREMOD JPN | GHANBARPOUR, C. |
| This course focuses on the experiences of women and men from roughly the end of the Heian period (794-1185) to the end of the 16th century. How did the roles and positions of women and men change in this time period, what were their problems, and how did they interact with each other and with the institutions and traditions that changed so markedly in the tradition from imperial to warrior rule? We will study women's and men's economic, social, political, and cultural roles, looking particularly at changes in women’s status, the spread of Buddhism, political movements and upheavals, warfare, entertainment, art, literature, and poetry. Same as REL STD 120 & EAS 155 | ||
| HISTORY (W26) | 182 HISTORY OF LONDON | CHATURVEDI, V. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| HISTORY (W26) | 183 CAP COOK&PACIF PPLE | SEED, P. |
| Full Title: Captain Cook and Pacific Peoples This course traces the three famous voyages of Captain Cook in the Pacific Ocean during the later 18th century and through their contacts with diverse island peoples provide a perspective on how islands came to be occupied through technologies of sailing and navigation, how these people formed their own cultures, and how ocean and island ecologies affect their character even up to the present day. Same as Anthro 169 | ||
| HISTORY (W26) | 190 SPORTS & FILM | CHATURVEDI, V. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| HISTORY (W26) | 190 FRENCH REVOLUTION | COLLER, I. |
| The French Revolution of 1789 has echoed through time as a defining event of the modern world. But France was not just a kingdom in Europe. It was a global power, with lucrative colonies in the Americas, the Caribbean, and the Indian Ocean, exploited through a massive traffic in humans abducted from Africa. France had connections with Europe, the Atlantic, the Middle East, Asia, and into the Pacific. The French Revolution arrived at a critical moment not just in France, but in the emerging global capitalist system. It challenged the vast inequalities that structured premodern society—slavery, social exclusion, “born-to-rule”, women’s subjugation, religious intolerance, racial prejudice. In doing so, it gave birth to Left and Right, and became almost a byword for polarization and political violence. This class investigates the course of the French Revolution(s), revealing a plural and global phenomenon. | ||
| HISTORY (W26) | 193 ADV RESEARCH SEM I | FARMER, S. |
| This advanced research seminar for History majors focuses on the close reading of texts, the mechanics of writing various forms of history, archival and online research techniques, research topic development, and how to structure a meaningful research proposal. By the end of Winter quarter each student will complete a well-grounded project proposal; in Spring quarter (History 194) students will complete their archival research and article-length essay suitable for submission to a peer-reviewed history journal. Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement. Restriction: Upper-division History Majors. Non-History Majors will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Apply at: https://forms.gle/aqzE1UeECdyAej6H9 Contact Undergraduate Program Coordinator, Kayla Ratliff, at kyratlif@uci.edu regarding application. | ||
| HISTORY (W26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
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| HISTORY (W26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
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| HISTORY (W26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
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| HISTORY (W26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
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| HISTORY (W26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
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| HISTORY (W26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
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| HISTORY (W26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
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| HISTORY (W26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
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| HISTORY (W26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
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| HISTORY (W26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
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| HISTORY (W26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
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| HISTORY (W26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
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| HISTORY (W26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
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| HISTORY (W26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
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| HISTORY (W26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
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| HISTORY (W26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
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| HISTORY (W26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
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| HISTORY (W26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
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| HISTORY (W26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
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