Undergraduate Courses

Fall 2024

ART HIS 21 – Medieval Art
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5
Instructor(s): Cohen, M.M.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; quiz, one hour. Early Christian, Byzantine, Islamic, Carolingian, Ottonian, Romanesque, and Gothic art and architecture. P/NP or letter grading.

ART HIS C116A – Middle Byzantine Art and Architecture
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Gerstel, S.E.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 21. Theory and development of Byzantine art from iconoclastic controversy to 1204. Concurrently scheduled with course C216A. P/NP or letter grading.

ART HIS 121C – Italian Renaissance Art of 16th Century
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): The Staff
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. Art and architecture of 16th century. P/NP or letter grading.

ART HIS 124 – Northern Renaissance Art
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Harwell, G.T.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 22. Painting and sculpture in Northern Renaissance. P/NP or letter grading.

CLUSTER 73A – Brain, Bodymind, and Society: All in Your Head?
Lecture: Lecture 1
Units: 6
Instructor(s): 6.0 Kristal, E., Gibbons, S.L., Knowlton, B.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Course 73A is enforced requisite to 73B, which is enforced requisite to 73CW. Limited to first-year freshmen. Drawing on several disciplines including disability studies, literary and film analysis, neurobiology, philosophy, and psychology, development of interdisciplinary account of how we relate our increasingly sophisticated knowledge of brain to contexts and meanings of subjectivity, mental health, and disability. Students make connections through interdisciplinary discussion of contemporary and historical understandings of brain structure and function; biological, psychological, and philosophical approaches to memory and learning; neuroscientific and philosophical approaches to consciousness; literary and filmic representations of mental illness and disability; and disability and mad studies critiques of biomedical model of mental illness. P/NP or letter grading.

COM LIT 2CW – Survey of Literature: Age of Enlightenment to 20th Century
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5
Instructor(s): Komar, K.L.
Course Description: Lecture, two hours; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 1C or 4CW. Study of selected texts from Age of Enlightenment to 20th century, with emphasis on literary analysis and expository writing. Diderot, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Goethe, Ibsen, James Joyce, Kafka, Jamaica Kincaid, Garcia Marquez, Rousseau, M. Shelley, Strindberg, Swift, Voltaire. Analysis of texts includes focus on structures, processes, and practices that generate inter-group inequities or conflicts as well as those that support fairness and inclusiveness. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.

ENGL 10A – Literatures in English to 1700
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5
Instructor(s): Fisher, M.N.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisites: English Composition 3 or 3H, English 4W or 4HW. Survey of major writers and genres, with emphasis on tools for literary analysis such as close reading, argumentation, historical and social context, and critical writing. Minimum of three papers (three to five pages each) or equivalent required. P/NP or letter grading.

ENGL 135 – Literature of Americas: Poetry of the Americas
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5
Instructor(s): Foote, R.E.
Course Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisites: courses 10A and 10B, or 11 and 87. Survey of literatures of Americas, with emphasis on complex ways in which letters of North America, Central America, South America, and Caribbean forge distinctly American perspective on global affairs. Spans literature from age of encounter to 19th-century U.S. American revolution and Latin American independence movements and beyond, considering such topics as empire, colonialism, slavery, transnational dynamics, and cross-cultural transformations among indigenous, European, and African civilizations. May be repeated for credit with topic or instructor change. P/NP or letter grading.

ENGL 145 – Medieval Literatures of Devotion and Dissent: Virgin, Wife, and Widow: Dissent and Dominance in Lives of Holy Women
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5
Instructor(s): Thomas, A.
Course Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisites: courses 10A, 10B. Exploration of devotional genres and their complex relationships with traditions of dissent in medieval English culture, encompassing hagiography, vision, conversion narrative, interreligious debate, heresy trials, and Lollard manifestos and translations. Texts may include “Dream of Rood,” “South English Legendary,” “Ancrene Wisse,” “Piers Plowman,” Lollard writings, macro-plays, Wakefield cycle, “Showings of Julian of Norwich,” and “Book of Margery Kempe.” May be repeated for credit with topic or instructor change. P/NP or letter grading.

ENGL 149 – Medievalisms: Filthy Lucre: Fraudster, Trader, and Usurer in Medieval and Post-Medieval Ages
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5
Instructor(s): Thomas, A.
Course Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisites: courses 10A, 10B. Exploration of postmedieval production of Middle Ages as period for scholarly study, tactical premodern other to modern and contemporary, and commodity continually reinvented by postmedieval writers, artists, and popular media. Topics may include 19th-century production of medieval studies and its links to nationalism, notable medievalists and their work, and uses of Middle Ages in popular culture from Umberto Eco to Tolkien, Robin Hood, Arthur, and Merlin. May be repeated for credit with topic or instructor change. P/NP or letter grading.

ENGL 150A – Shakespeare: Poems and Early Plays
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5
Instructor(s): Watson, R.N.
Course Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisites: courses 10A, 10B. Intensive study of selected poems and representative comedies, histories, and tragedies through Hamlet. P/NP or letter grading.

ENGL 150C – Topics in Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s Major Plays
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5
Instructor(s): Little, A.L.
Course Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisites: courses 10A, 10B. Introduction to or advancement of student knowledge of Shakespeare’s works through broad or specific topics set by instructor. May be repeated for credit with topic or instructor change. P/NP or letter grading.

ENGL 153 – Theatrical Renaissance: Early Modern Texts and Performances: Survey of Early Modern Drama, without Shakespeare
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5
Instructor(s): Little, A.L.
Course Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisites: courses 10A, 10B. Topics may include professional and amateur performances in court, cities, churches, and countryside of varied sorts of texts–masques, religious drama, secular drama, charivari–alongside examination of texts, performers, and performance spaces from 1509 to 1642. May be repeated for credit with topic or instructor change. P/NP or letter grading.

ENGL 182A – Topics in Medieval Literature: Medieval Outlaws, Radicals, and Dissenters
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5
Instructor(s): Fisher, M.N.
Course Description: Seminar, three or four hours. Enforced requisites: courses 10A, 10B, 10C. Consult Schedule of Classes for author, period, genre, or subject to be studied in specific term. May be repeated for credit with topic or instructor change. P/NP or letter grading.
Class Description: Students read literature by and related to outlaws, radicals, and dissenters in medieval England. From enigmatic economic tactics of Robin Hood, to social imaginings of Middle English poem Piers Plowman and Peasants Revolt of 1381, to rejection of religious orthodoxy by Lollards; from Margery Kempe’s radical weeping to Christine de Pisan’s Book of the City of Ladies. Texts read in Middle English and modern English translations. Examination of how outlaws and dissenting thinkers made themselves legible in medieval literature, and what was at stake in doing so. Includes weekly reading responses, peer feedback, group work, Middle English quiz, 10-minute presentation, five-page paper, and 15- to 17-page final paper.

HIST 3A – History of Science: Renaissance to 1800
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5
Instructor(s): Alexander, A.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Survey of beginnings of physical sciences involving transformation from Aristotelian to Newtonian cosmology, mechanization of natural world, rise of experimental science, and origin of scientific societies. P/NP or letter grading.

HIST 8A – Colonial Latin America
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5
Instructor(s): Terraciano, K.B.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 8AH. General introduction to Latin American history from contact period to independence (1490s to 1820s), with emphasis on convergence of Native American, European, and African cultures in Latin America; issues of ethnicity and gender; development of colonial institutions and societies; and emergence of local and national identities. Readings focus on writings of Latin American men and women from the period studied. P/NP or letter grading.

HIST 9A – Introduction to Asian Civilizations: History of India
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5
Instructor(s): Subrahmanyam, S.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Introductory survey for beginning students of major cultural, social, and political ideas, traditions, and institutions of Indic civilization. P/NP or letter grading.

HIST 9D – Introduction to Asian Civilizations: History of Middle East
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5
Instructor(s): Gelvin, J.L.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. An introduction to the history of the Muslim world from the advent of Islam to t present day. P/NP or letter grading.

HIST 11A – History of China: To 1000
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5
Instructor(s): Von Glahn, R.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Survey of early history of China–genesis of characteristic Chinese institutions and modes of thought from antiquity to 1000. Focus on social, political, intellectual, and economic aspects of early and middle empires. P/NP or letter grading.

HIST 111B – Topics in Middle Eastern History: Early Modern: Ottoman-European Encounters in Early Modern Period: Diplomacy, Trade, Piracy, and Travelers
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Momdjian, M.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Examination of Istanbul in Ottoman period (1453 to 1923); relationship between history and literary imagination and view of history as dialogue between past and present; scholarly debate on urban history of early-modern Middle East; introduction to corpus of theories (world economy paradigm) through discussion of Ottoman port cities. May be repeated for maximum of 16 units with topic and/or instructor change. P/NP or letter grading.

HIST 116A – Byzantine History
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Langdon, J.S.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Political, socioeconomic, religious, and cultural continuity in millennial history of Byzantium. Reforms of Diocletian. Byzantium’s relations with Latin Europe, Slavs, Sassanids, Arabs, and Turks. P/NP or letter grading.

HIST 119D – Topics in Medieval History: Myth of Superhero, Then and Now
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Goldberg, J.L.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Special topics in history of Middle Ages, including religion in society, justice and law, politics of war and diplomacy, economic upheaval and renewal, and cultural representations. May be repeated for maximum of 16 units with topic and/or instructor change. P/NP or letter grading.

HIST M127A – History of Russia, Origins to Rise of Muscovy
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Lenhoff, G.D.
Course Description: (Same as Russian M118.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Kievan Rus’ and its culture, Appanage principalities and towns; Mongol invasion; unification of Russian state by Muscovy, Autocracy and its Servitors; serfdom. P/NP or letter grading.

HIST 149A – North American Indian History, Precontact to 1830
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Sladeck, J.J.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. History of Native Americans from contact to present, with emphasis on historical dimensions of culture change, Indian political processes, and continuity of Native American cultures. Focus on selected Indian peoples in each period. P/NP or letter grading.

HIST M150B – Introduction to Afro-American History
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Stevenson, B.
Course Description: (Same as African American Studies M158B.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Survey of Afro-American experience, with emphasis on three great transitions of Afro-American life: transition from Africa to New World slavery, transition from slavery to freedom, and transition from rural to urban milieus. P/NP or letter grading.

HIST 167B – History of East Africa
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Frederick, H.E.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Survey of cultural diversity of east Africa from earliest times to growth of complex societies, its place within wider Indian Ocean system, and colonial conquest to gaining of independence and postcolonial challenges. P/NP or letter grading.

HIST 187B – Variable Topics Historiography Proseminar: Medieval: Medieval Superheroes
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Goldberg, J.L.
Course Description: Seminar, three hours. Proseminar on historiography involving close reading and critical discussion of secondary scholarship and primary sources on selected topics. Reading, discussion, and analytical writing culminating in one or several historiographical essays. May be repeated once for credit. P/NP or letter grading.

HIST 187F – Variable Topics Historiography Proseminar: Near East: Global Goods: Commodities and Consumption in Early Modern Ottoman World, 1500 to 1800
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Momdjian, M.
Course Description: Seminar, three hours. Proseminars on historiography involving close reading and critical discussion of secondary scholarship and primary sources on selected topics. Reading, discussion, and analytical writing culminating in one or several historiographical essays. May be repeated once for credit. P/NP or letter grading.

HIST C187N – Topics in Historiography: India: History of Indian Ocean, 1400 to 1900: Ports, Networks, and States
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Subrahmanyam, S.
Course Description: Seminar, three hours. Proseminar on historiography involving close reading and critical discussion of secondary scholarship and primary sources on selected topics. Reading, discussion, and analytical writing culminating in one or several historiographical essays. May be repeated once for credit. May be concurrently scheduled with course C200K. P/NP or letter grading.

SPAN 130 – Topics in Medieval Studies: Stories, Narratives, Fables, and Sagas of Medieval Iberia
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Dagenais, J.C.
Course Description: Lecture, four hours. Requisites: courses 25 or 27, and 119. Exploration of medieval Iberian literatures: lyric poetry, prose, and history of peninsula, with emphasis on its literary and linguistic diversity. Possible topics include Convivencia (peaceful coexistence), Europe and Orient, beginnings of Inquisition, oral versus written traditions, origins of Hispano-Christian expansion beyond peninsula, and flowering of Al-Andalus. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.

SPAN 135 – Topics in Early Modern Studies: Written on Ocean: Ships and Sailors in Colonial Spanish-American Literature
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Rodriguez, J.N.
Course Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisites: courses 25 or 27, and 119. Exploration of 16th and 17th centuries, with focus on early modern period of Spain and Spanish America. Possible topics include Spanish colonization and indigenous responses, transatlantic literary and visual baroque, race and religion in construction of early modern nation, transatlantic fictions, early modern identities and theatrical representations, literature and historiography, transatlantic poetics and poetry. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.