History (Hist)
1. Western Civilization to 1650 (3)
Meets general education requirement in the area of man and culture. Foundations
of western civilization; interdependence of cultures and peoples; cultural
development from prehistoric times to 1650. (2 lecture, 1 quiz sections.)
2. Western Civilization Since 1650 (3)
Not open to students with credit in Hist 4A-B. Meets general education requirement
in the area of man and culture. Political, social, and cultural history
of Europe since 1650; European expansion and impact of western civilization
upon the non-European world; Asian and African nationalist movements in
19th and 20th centuries
3. Colonial America (3) (Former Hist BA)
May apply on general education group 7. Western Hemisphere history from
discovery to independence.
7. For Eastern Civilization (3)
Meets the general education requirement in the area of man and culture.
The cultures and history of the Far East from the earliest times to the
present.
11. American History to 1865 (3)
Not open to students with credit in Hist 10. Meets the American history
requirement in general education. The formation of the Union and the development
of American society to 1865.
12. American History from 1865 (3)
Not open to students with credit in Hist 10. Meets the American history
requirement in general education. The development of American society since
1865.
104. China (3)
Prerequisite: Hist 7. Evolution of Chinese culture and nationality from
antiquity to the present.
105. Japan and Korea (3)
Prerequisite: Hist 7. Cultural, political, and economic development of Japan
and Korea from antiquity to the present.
106. India and Pakistan (3)
Prerequisite: Hist 7. Cultural, political, and economic evolution of the
sub- continent of India from the formation of the primitive societies to
the rise of modern nations.
107. Southeast Asia (3)
Not open to students with credit in Anthro 123. Prerequisite: Hist 7. History
and cultures of Southeast Asia from earliest times to the present.
109T. Studies in Non-Western History (1-3; max total 6 if no area
repeated)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Emphasis on class discussion and
closely supervised research and writing. Possible topics include Buddhist
Confucianism, Taoism; conflicts between Eastern and Western thought; mandate
system after World War I; Middle East independence movements, Ottoman Period;
Palestine Hebrew-Arab relations.
111 A-B. Ancient World (3-3)
Prerequisite: Hist 1 or equivalent. The ancient Mediterranean world. (A)
The Near East and Greece from the earliest times to Philip of Macedon. (B)
Alexander the Great, the Hellenistic world, Rome to the reign of Constantine.
119T. Studies in Ancient and Medieval History (1-3; max total 6 if
no area re- peated)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Emphasis on class discussion and
closely supervised research and writing. Possible topics include Greek city-states,
decline and fall of the Roman Empire, rise of Christianity, Crusades, Conciliar
Movement, feudal institutions, urbanization of Europe.
120. Byzantine History (3)
Prerequisite: Hist 1 or equivalent. Eastern Roman Empire from Justinian
to the fall of Constantinople; the role and development of the Church, internal
development, and its relations with the Islamic, Latin, and Slavic worlds.
121. Formation of the Medieval Order (3)
Prerequisite: Hist 1. Influences of Neoplatonism, Universalism, and Christianity
in the development of thought and institutions; Monasticism, Feudalism,
Crusading, and the Papacy.
122. Disintegration of the Medieval Order (3)
Not open to students with credit in Hist 121 prior to September 1967. Prerequisite:
Hist 1. Conflict between Christian Universalism and National Particularism.
Examination of the Hundred Years War, Babylonian Captivity of the Church,
Conciliarism, and tradition of ecclesiastical dissent prior to the Reformation.
131. Renaissance (3)
Prerequisite: Hist 1 or equivalent or permission of instructor. The foundations
of modem Europe during the 14th and 15th centuries.
132. Reformation (3)
Not open to students with credit in Hist 131 prior to September 1967. Prerequisite:
Hist 1 or equivalent or permission of instructor. Analysis of the political,
social, and intellectual movements associated with the 16th century religious
upheaval.
133. Armenian History (3)
Prerequisite: Hist I or permission of instructor. Economic, political, social,
religious, and cultural history of Armenia from earliest times to the present.
135. Moslem World (3)
Political and cultural development of the Arabs, Turks, Berbers, and other
Moslem peoples from Mohammed to the present.
136. Africa (3)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. The chronological development and
the indigenous and foreign influences which have created modem Africa.
137. Russian Civilization to 1800 (3) (Former Hist 137A)
Prerequisite: Hist 1, 2, or permission of instructor. The country and peoples
of Russia from the ninth century to 1800.
138. Russian and Soviet Civilization Since 1800 (3) (Former Hist 137B)
Prerequisite: Hist 1, 2, or permission of instructor. Political, cultural,
and social progress of the Russian people during the 19th and 20th centuries.
141. Europe 1618-1715 (3)
Prerequisite: Hist 2 or equivalent. European culture, institutions, and
politics from the start of the Thirty Years War to the death of Louis XIV.
142. Europe 1715-1815 (3)
Not open to students with credit in Hist 141 or 145 prior to fall 1966.
Prerequisite: Hist 2 or equivalent. European culture, institutions, and
politics from the death of Louis XIV to the end of the Napoleonic era.
143. Germany (3)
Prerequisite: Hist 2 or equivalent. Political, social, and cultural development
of Germany from the seventeenth century to the present.
144. Modern France (3)
Prerequisite: Hist 2 or equivalent. French culture, institutions, and politics
from the Old Regime to the Fifth Republic.
146. Europe 1815-1914 (3)
Prerequisite: Hist 2 or equivalent. Political, social, and cultural development
of Continental Europe from the Congress of Vienna to the outbreak of the
FirstWorld War.
147. Europe Since 1914 (3)
Prerequisite: Hist 2 or equivalent. The European nations in two world wars;
rise and character of totalitarian movements; social and economic developments;
artistic achievements, new intellectual currents; revolt of Asia and Africa
against European dominance.
149T. Studies in Modern European History (1-3; max total 6 if no area
repeated)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Emphasis on class discussion and
closely supervised research and writing. Possible topics include The Enlightenment,
Social Movements of the Reformation Era, Bismarck, European Colonialism
and Nationalism in Africa, Revolutionary Tradition in Russia, War in the
Modern World, Nazi Germany.
151. England to 1603 (3)
Political, economic, and cultural development of the British Isles; constitutional
growth; ancient and medieval times through the Renaissance and Reformation
to the end of the Tudor Period.
152. England Since 1603 (3)
Main currents in the thought, culture, and social progress, with emphasis
upon constitutional growth, of the British peoples from 1603 to the present.
155. British Empire Since 1714 (3)
Prerequisite: Hist 1, 2, or equivalent. Older overseas empire and break-up;
newer empire after 1783; rise, federation, and imperial relations of self-governing
dominions; crown colony system; India under the British; British expansion
in Africa and the Pacific.
158. Canada (3)
Prerequisite: Hist 3 or equivalent. Discovery, growth and expansion of Canada,
social, economic and political institutions from the French regime through
British rule to the Transcontinental Dominion.
160A-B. Spain and Portugal (2-2)
Prerequisite: Hist 2 or permission of instructor. (A) Development of the
Iberian Peninsula from prehistoric times to the Napoleonic Invasion of 1808.
(B) From1808 to the present; political, social and economic institutions;
outstanding literary works.
162A. Platine Countries (3)
Prerequisite: Hist 3 or equivalent. Disintegration of the Viceroyalty of
La Plata and the formation of Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay from 1800
to the present.
162B. Caribbean America (3)
Prerequisite: Hist 3 or equivalent. Creation and growth of the nations of
the Greater Antilles and the Spanish Main: Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba, Haiti,
the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico, 1800 to the present.
162C. Western South America (3)
Prerequisite: Hist 3 or equivalent. Development of the countries which once
formed the bulk of the Viceroyalty of Peru: Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and
Chile, 1800 to the present.
165. Middle America (3)
Prerequisite. Hist 3 or equivalent. Evolution of the states of Middle America
out of the dissolution of the Viceroyalty of New Spain and the First Mexican
Empire: Mexico and the six Central American Republics, 1800 to present.
166. Brazil (3)
Prerequisite: Hist 3 or permission of instructor. Brazil from 1800 to the
present; emphasis on major political, economic, and social developments.
167. American Foreign Policy (3)
Principles, ideals, and policies of United States in foreign relations.
167F. Studies in Latin American History (1-3; max total 6 if no area
repeated)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Emphasis on class discussion and
closely supervised research and writing. Possible topics include agrarian
reform, social change, economic problems, cultural trends, political philosophies,
action in world organizations, Latin America and the Cold War.
171. Early American History, 1607-1783 (3)
Meets the American history requirement in general education. First of a
sequence of four courses covering the full period of history of the United
States; colonial foundations; political and economic factors; social and
cultural development through the American Revolution.
172. United States History, 1783-1850 (3)
Not open to students with credit in Hist 173 prior to September 1967. Meets
the American history requirement in general education. Political, economic,
social and cultural developments of the early agrarian republic.
173. United States History, 1950-1914 (3)
Meets the American history requirement in general education. The Civil War
and Reconstruction; problems of an increasingly urban and industrialized
society.
174. United States History Since 1914 (3)
Meets the American history requirement in general education. The United
States in world affairs; political, economic, social, and cultural developments
and problems from 1914 to the present.
175. Representative Americans (2)
Biographical sketches of leading characters in American history from Revolution
to present. Lectures and reading from standard biographies.
176. Social and Intellectual History of the United States to 1865
(3)
Development of the American people; leading ideas and values in a predominantly
rural arid agrarian society.
177. Social and Intellectual History of the United States Since 1865
(3)
Not open to students with credit in Hist 176 prior to fall 1966. Impact
of industriahzation and urbanization upon American society; leading ideas
old values.
179T. Studies in United States History (1-3, max total 6 if no area
repeated)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Emphasis on class discussion and
closely supervised research and writing. Possible topics include constitutional
history, religious history, military history, agricultural history, urban
history, business history, and others.
181. Westward Movement (3)
Development of western civilization in United States; movement of people
and ideas from east to west, persistence and significance.
185. San Joaquin Valley (2)
San Joaquin Valley from Indian days to present; recent expansion in agriculture
and industry.
189A-B. California (2-2)
Prerequisite: Hist 3 or equivalent; upper division standing. Discovery,
exploration, and early settlement of Alta California; founding of the missions;
the Spanish, Mexican, and American periods; government, customs, habits,
and influences of the various peoples who occupied California.
190. Independent Study (1-3; max see reference)
See Regulations and Procedures-Independent Study.
199. Advanced Study in History (3)
Prerequisite: upper division standing, major in history or political science;
permission of instructor. Introductory course for advanced work; bibliography,
research techniques, historical writing; appraisal of historians of contemporary
significance.
(See Course Numbering System.)
History (Hist)
202. Seminar in Historiography (3; max total 6 if area not repeated)
Prerequisite: major or minor in one of the social sciences, Hist 199
or permission of instructor. Advanced studies in a field of history-American,
Latin American, European; writings and philosophies of great historians;
development of historiography.
205. Seminar in Far Eastern History (3; max total 6)
Prerequisite: Hist 199 or permission of instructor. Research in specific
areas of Far Eastern history and culture.
240. Seminar in European History (3; max total 6)
Open only to history and social science majors. Prerequisite: Hist 199 or
permission of instructor.
263. Seminar in Latin-American Studies (3; max total 6)
Prerequisite: Hist 199 or permission of instructor. Recommended: reading
knowledge of Spanish or Portuguese. Research in specific areas of Hispanic
American history and culture. Field trips to the University of California
and Bancroft Libraries.
270. Seminar in American History (3; max total 6)
Open only to history and social science majors. Prerequisite: Hist 199 or
permission of instructor.
278. Seminar in Recent Interpretations of American History
(3; max total 6 if topic not repeated)
Prerequisite: teaching credential with social science major; or history
major or minor. Examination of selected problems in American history in
the light of new research discoveries; extensive use of scholarly journals.
289. Seminar in California History (3)
Prerequisite: Hist 100, 189A, 189B. Research on special problems in California
history.
290. Independent Study (1-3; max see reference)
See Regulations and Procedures -- Independent Study.
299. Thesis (4)
Prerequisite: see Master's Degrees -- Thesis Requirement. Preparation, completion,
and submission of an acceptable thesis for the master's degree.
(See Course Numbering System.)
History (Hist)
300. Topics in History
(2; max total 8 if no topic repeated)