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The following courses may be taken for concentration credit. Please see the sponsoring department for the time and location of each course.

 

**Spring 2010 X-List**

FIRST-YEAR SEMINARS & LECTURE COURSES

  • Africana Studies
  • AFRI 0160 Twentieth-Century Africa 
  • AFRI 0220 Introduction to African American History from Emancipation to the Present
  • American Civilization
  • AMCV 1611A Making America: Twentieth-Century U.S. Immigrant/Ethnic Literature
  • AMCV 1611Z The Century of Immigration
  • Education
  • EDUC 1200 History of American School Reform 
  • EDUC 0410D Brown v. Board of Education
  • Ethnic Studies
  • ETHN 0090A The Border / La Frontera 

CAPSTONE SEMINARS

  • American Civilization
  • AMCV 1903X Style and the Man: Masculinity in Fashion and U.S. History
  • Education
  • EDUC 0850 History of Intercollegiate Athletics (sophomore seminar)
  • Humanities
  • HMAN 1970O Testimonies as Historical Documents: Interethnic Relations at a Time of Genocide 
  • Judaic Studies
  • JUDS 1980Q Jews and Muslims 
  • Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
  • POBS 1600D Portuguese Discoveries and Early Modern Globalization

**Fall 2009 X-List**

FIRST-YEAR SEMINARS & LECTURE COURSES

  • Education
  • EDUC 0400 The Campus on Fire: American Colleges and Universities in the 1960's
  • EDUC 1020 History of American Education
  • EDUC 1740 Academic Freedom on Trial: A Century of Campus Controversies
  • Ethnic Studies
  • ETHN 1870F Eating Cultures
  • Judaic Studies
  • JUDS 0650 History of Zionism and the Birth of Israel
  • Russian
  • RUSS1050 Russian Culture: From Peter the Great to Putin

CAPSTONE SEMINARS (equal to HIST 1970-1980 series)

  • Africana Studies
  • AFRI 1060M African Environmental History
  • AFRI 1170 African American Women's History

**Spring 2009 X-List**

FIRST-YEAR SEMINARS & LECTURE COURSES

  • Africana Studies
    AFRI 0220 Introduction to African American History from Emancipation to the Present
  • American Civilization
    AMCV 1611J Sex, Love and Race, Miscegenation, Mixed Race and Interacial Relations
    AMCV 1611L The Sixties Without Apology
    AMCV 1612F Female Maladies: Women and Mental Illness
    AMCV 1700D The Teen Age: Youth, Society and Culture in Early Cold War America
  • Classics
    CLAS 0560 War and Society in the Ancient World
  • Comparative Literature
    COLT 2820Q Culture and Politics in Cuba and the Caribbean
  • Education
    EDUC 0850 History of Intercollegiate Athletics
    EDUC 1050 History of African-American Education
    EDUC 1200 History of American School Reform
    EDUC 1820 History of Print Culture in America
  • Italian Studies
    ITAL 1420 Sex and the Cities: Venice, Florence, and Rome, 1450-1800
  • Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
    POBS 1600Q Perceptions of the Other and Ethnographical Writing in Early Modern Portugal

CAPSTONE SEMINARS (equal to HIST 1970-1980 series)

  • Africana Studies
    AFRI 1606N, Gender and Power in African History
  • East Asian Studies
    EAST 1950D Crime, Justice and Punishment in Modern Japan
  • Ethnic Studies
    ETHN 1870A Ethnic Los Angeles
  • Humanities
    HMAN 1970B Clean and Modern: Meanings of Health and Hygiene in the 19th and 20th Centuries
    HMAN 1970D Prejudice in Early Modern England

**Fall 2008 X-List**

FIRST-YEAR SEMINARS & LECTURE COURSES

  • Africana Studies
    AFRI 1470 Southern African History
  • American Civilization
    AMCV 1010 Introduction to American Studies
  • Classics
    CLAS 1310 Roman History I: The Rise and Fall of an Imperial Republic
  • Comparative Literature
    COLT 1421C Subaltern Studies: History, Literature, Theory
  • East Asian Studies
    EAST 0950A Turning Japanese: Constructing Nation, Race and Culture in Modern Japan
  • Education
    EDUC 0400 The Campus on Fire: American Colleges and Universities in the 1960's
    EDUC 0410D Brown v. Board of Education
    EDUC 1020 History of American Education
    EDUC 1740 Academic Freedom on Trial: A Century of Campus Controversies
  • Italian Studies
    ITAL 0751 When Leaders Lie: Machiavelli in International Context
  • Russian
    RUSS 1050 Russian Culture: From Peter the Great to Putin

CAPSTONE SEMINARS (equal to HIST 1970-1980 series)

  • Africana Studies
    AFRI 1060A Africa Since 1950
  • Humanities
    HMAN 1970A Eating Cultures: Food and Society
    HMAN 1970F Visualizing History: The Politics of Material Culture in South Asia
    HMAN 1970K The Origins and Contours of American Nationalism, 1780-1900