2018-2019 Catalog

Sep 22, 2024

2018-2019 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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Government
	GOVT181 CM - Crime and Public Policy Assesses the nature and adequacy of government’s response to the crime problem in the United States. Specific topics include the extent and nature of the problem; the response of police, prosecutors and courts; the nature and extent of punishment imposed for criminal behavior; the philosophic basis for punishment; the role that public opinion does and ought to play in guiding criminal justice policy; and the performance of representative institutions in meeting the crime problem. Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: GOVT181 CM
	GOVT182 CM - Church and State in American Constitutionalism Over two hundred years into the American experiment, issues of church and state continue to divide the nation. How far reaching is “the great separation” between church and state? Does it require the development of a secular citizenry? Is it consistent with claims that America is a Christian nation? The vexed relationship between church and state is at the heart of public debates regarding education, marriage, and numerous other issues. To illuminate current debates we will examine the philosophical and political arguments for separation and how these have played out over the course of American constitutional history. Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM Offered: Occasionally Credit: 1 Course Number: GOVT182 CM
	GOVT185 CM - The Supreme Court and Criminal Procedure Intensive analyses of major judicial opinions on the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments, focusing on search and seizure, self-incrimination, right to counsel, and other procedural rights of accused persons. Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM Offered: Occasionally Credit: 1 Course Number: GOVT185 CM
	GOVT186 CM - the Death Penalty Debate in Philosophy, Religion, Law, and Popular Culture This course will examine key issues in the debate over the death penalty throughout Western history, with an emphasis on the current debate within the United States. Focusing on the crime of murder, readings will begin with the ancient legal codes of Hammurabi and Moses and extend up to the most recent court decisions and social science research in the United States. The course will cover the most important philosophic and religious arguments for and against the death penalty, as well as all the major critiques currently leveled against the practice of capital punishment in the United States. Readings will also cover the treatment of the death penalty in popular culture, including ancient Greek plays, the plays of Shakespeare, the debate among the Romantic poets of the 19th century, Clarence Darrow’s classic attack on the death penalty in the 1920s, and modern Hollywood treatments. Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: GOVT186 CM
	GOVT187 CM - Women and the Law The purpose of this course is to explore whether and how gender matters in American law, and to examine the constitutional and statutory legal doctrines that apply in sex discrimination claims. More specifically, the course will (a) examine the ways gender has affected citizenship status; (b) address major constitutional themes that are invoked in sex discrimination cases and their evolution across time; and (c) consider how alternative schools of legal thought address these issues. Particular attention will be paid to employment law, reproductive rights, family law, and criminal law. Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM Offered: Occasionally Credit: 1 Course Number: GOVT187 CM
	GOVT189 CM - Seminar in Legal Studies An interdisciplinary seminar focusing on selected contemporary problems in the law. Examples include: (a) constitutional interpretation, (b) development of the rule of law, and (c) presidential war powers. The topics will vary from year to year. Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM Offered: Occasionally Credit: 1 Course Number: GOVT189 CM
	GOVT191 CM - Public Policy Since the New Deal This course will examine the development of American public policy starting with the Great Depression and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. While offering a broad overview of economic and social policy in this era, the course will focus particular attention on the New Deal of the 1930’s, the Great Society of the 1960’s, and the Reagan Revolution of the 1980’s. The course material will also illuminate how policy is the product of the interaction of people, ideas, politics, and events. Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: GOVT191 CM
	GOVT192 CM - Liberalism and Conservatism The course examines the character of the political opinions calling themselves liberalism and conservatism, from their emergence in the 18^th century to their flourishing and possible decline in the 20^th century and beyond. Though the course will focus on their American forms, it will contrast these with the appropriate British and Continental counterparts. Throughout, attention will be paid to the variety of doctrines within each school of thought, and to what unites as well as divides the politics of liberalism and conservatism as a whole. Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM Offered: Occasionally Credit: 1 Course Number: GOVT192 CM
	GOVT193 CM - Presidential War Powers This course is a research seminar on presidential war powers. It focuses on the legal issues surrounding the use of force by American presidents, including whether the president may on his own authority introduce American armed forces into combat overseas (as many presidents have done), and what powers the president may exercise domestically when the nation is at war. May he, for example, suspend habeas corpus, relocate and intern American citizens, seize private property for military purposes, order “unlawful combatants” to be tried by military tribunals, or spy on the communications of American citizens with foreign enemies - all of which American presidents have done. An overarching issue throughout is the perennial tension between law (“a government of laws and not of men” - Massachusetts Constitution of 1780) and human discretion (“the good of the society requires, that several things should be left to the discretion of him, that has the Executive power” - John Locke, 1689). Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM Offered: Occasionally Credit: 1 Course Number: GOVT193 CM
	GOVT196 CM - International Human Rights This course introduces human rights as a dominant field in international law and international relations. It examines historical origins of the concept, international legal underpinnings, and dynamics that have driven its expansion and limited its success. The course focuses on international actors operating under the United Nations including the Security Council, Human Rights Council, and bodies monitoring treaty obligations. It also covers regional human rights systems, including Europe, Latin America, and Africa. Specific topics include: torture, racism, disappearances, genocide, LGBT rights, hate speech, women’s rights, and economic, social and cultural rights. Broader themes involve the tensions between the universality of human rights and cultural relativism, state sovereignty, terrorism, armed conflicts, and whether human rights law has made a positive contribution to the actual realization of human rights. Prerequisites: GOVT 020 CM and GOVT 178 CM , or permission of instructor Offered: Occasionally Credit: 1 Course Number: GOVT196 CM
	GOVT199 CM - Independent Study in Government Students who have the necessary qualifications and who wish to investigate an area of study not covered in regularly scheduled courses may arrange for independent study under the direction of a faculty reader. Offered: Every semester Credit: 0.5 or 1 Course Number: GOVT199 CM
History
	HIST017 CH - Introduction to Chicanx-Latinx History See Pomona College Catalog for course description. Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST017 CH
	HIST025 CH - All Power to the People! See Pomona College Catalog for course description. Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST025 CH
	HIST028 CH - Revolutions, Uprisings, Coups, and Interventions in the Americas since 1910 See Pomona College Catalog for course description. Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST028 CH
	HIST031 CH - Colonial Latin American History See Pomona College Catalog for course description. Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST031 CH
	HIST032 CH - Latin America Since Independence See Pomona College Catalog for course description. Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST032 CH
	HIST034 CH - Mexico, from Indigenous Societies to Modern State See Pomona College Catalog for course description. Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST034 CH
	HIST040 AF - History of Africa to 1800 See Pomona College Catalog for course description. Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST040 AF
	HIST041 AF - History of Africa from 1800 See Pomona College Catalog for course description. Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST041 AF
	HIST050A AF - African Diaspora in the United States to 1877 See Scripps College Catalog for course description. Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST050A AF
	HIST050B AF - African Diaspora in the United States since 1877 See Scripps College Catalog for course description. Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST050B AF
	HIST051 CM - Modern South Asian History through its Literature, 1700 to the Present This course uses South Asian literature in English translation to recover a picture of social, cultural, and political life in the period 1700 to the present. The literature includes diaries, poetry, novels, and essays. It gives us data on the everyday life of the period, but also on questions such as, What was the experience of modernity? and, How are gendered and class identities experienced? Students will read literature but learn how to think historically. Offered: Occasionally Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST051 CM
	HIST052 CM - South Asian History: An Introduction The history of South Asia (modern-day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka & Nepal) includes equal parts of dramatic narrative and controversies in interpretation. Who were the Aryans? Is Emperor Akbar’s popularity as a synthesizer of Hindu-Muslim interests justified? What does Buddhist sculpture tell us of gender relations? How old really is Indian “classical” music and dance? Why did Partition take place? This course will expose us to the rich historical narratives of the area, usually from primary sources, and equally to the complex interpretations of political, social and intellectual questions. The semester will be divided between three periods (Ancient, Medieval and Modern) of South Asian History for convenience. Offered: Every year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST052 CM
	HIST053 CM - Everyday Life in South Asia, 1700 to the Present This course is the second of two parts of an introduction to the civilization(s) of historical India, or present-day status of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. These three hundred years consist of complex changes in the economy, social structure, and the values of this life and an after life. The course looks at the agencies of change such as colonial law and education, mass media and technology, and demography. The main focus, however, will be on the experiences of people of this change and the emergence of new identities. Offered: Occasionally Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST053 CM
	HIST054 CM - Bread and Circuses: The Politics of Roman Private Life This course explores various categories of Roman culture that defined both private lives and the public image of society. Topics include wealth, patronage, gender, slavery, violence, and death. By examining a variety of primary sources - histories, poetry, letter, and urban fabric - we shall better appreciate the ways in which private life in ancient Rome was a public performance. Offered: Every year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST054 CM
	HIST055 CM - The Middle East: From Muhammad to the Mongols This survey is an introduction to the pre-Modern history of the peoples of the classical Islamic lands, from North Africa to Central Asia. The course will cover the time period from the rise of Islam to the Mongol invasions of the 13^th century and their aftermath, examining topics such as geography and environment, relations between nomadic and sedentary peoples, the formation of Islamic law, science and philosophy, and the relation between the rulers and the ruled, the state and its subjects. Offered: Every fall Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST055 CM
	HIST056 CM - The Middle East: From the Ottomans to the Present A survey of the social, political, and economic history of Islamic societies since ca.1500. Beginning with an examination of the Turkic “gunpowder empires,” the course then explores the ways in which capitalist market economies, European penetration, and nation building projects transformed the region during the 19^th and 20^th centuries. Subjects include state and society under the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals; colonialism and imperialism, capitalism and the integration of the region into the world system; responses to the West; the territorial settlement of the Middle East and the emergence of the Mandate System after the first World War; nationalism; the question of Palestine; and the modern revival of Islamic movements. Offered: Every spring Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST056 CM
	HIST059 CM - Civilizations of East Asia The rise and development of Chinese (Sinitic/Confucian) civilization from neolithic origins to its full maturation in the 18^th century and the struggle of countries on the periphery of the Chinese cultural zone - primarily Japan and secondarily Korea and Vietnam - to retain distinct cultural and political identities while borrowing aspects of Chinese culture. Themes include state building, the changing role of women, cultural and aesthetic traditions, religious values, and political patterns. Special attention is given to divergent paths of pre-modern development which helped condition 20^th-century approaches to political/economic modernization. Offered: Every year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST059 CM
	HIST061 CM - The New Asia: China, Japan and Korea in the Modern Era Revolution, state building, modernization, and socio-cultural change in three representative cultural zones of Asia. The first part of the course examines imperialism and de-colonization, socio-religious reform movements, changing gender roles, and dynamics of political revolution. The second part explores the new forces which have reshaped the countries: the passing of charismatic leaders and revolutionary development strategies, the Japanese/East Asian economic model, and problems defining culture. Offered: Every year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST061 CM
	HIST068 CM - Disasters in the Ancient Mediterranean The timeless monumentality of the ancient Mediterranean often conveys a sense of durability and resistance to change, but ancient societies were also proverbial for disasters, both natural and human. Poised on a fragile balance between plenty and crisis, disasters strained resources at every level, but ancient communities were nevertheless surprisingly resilient. This course explores a wide range of disasters - earthquakes and volcanoes, floods and drought, plague and famine, fires and riots, sieges and sackings, military catastrophes and genocide - to better understand the capacity of ancient communities to respond to adversity. How enduring was the impact of disaster, what resources were mobilized in response, and what were the psychological strategies for coping? Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST086 CM
	HIST071 CM - The Making of Medieval Europe: 800-1300 CE This course offers a broadly based inquiry into the late-classical, Germanic, Judeo-Christian and Islamic cultures that constituted Europe and the Mediterranean from the Carolingian Empire which emerged after the fall of the Roman Empire to the height of medieval Christendom in the 14th century. Designed to provide students with an overview of the history of Europe and the Mediterranean from ca. 800-1300, the course will explore such topics as the consolidation of “barbarian kingdoms” after the fall of the Roman Empire and the emergence of the Church as a governing institution; the rise and importance of monasticism; medieval notions of sexuality, ethnicity, and identity; the transformation of the feudal state into commercial economies; Byzantine, Islamic and western Christian scholarship; kingship knighthood and the Crusades. Offered: Every year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST071 CM
	HIST072 CM - The Making of Early Modern Europe, 1300-1800 This course provides an introductory overview of European society from the late middle ages to the end of the French Revolution. The major events examined include the Black Death in the 14^th century and the spread of smallpox in the New World in the 16^th; the Renaissance, Protestant, and Catholic Reformations; the place of Jews and Muslims in the European imagination; intellectual and scientific movements; colonization of the Americas; the French Revolution and the rise of nationalism; and changes in gender relations and the family. Offered: Occasionally Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST072 CM
	HIST073 CM - The Rise of Modern Europe, 1750 to the Present An examination of the major issues in the rise of modern Europe from the 18^th to the 21^st centuries. Major topics include the secularization of culture, the industrial revolution, imperialism, the rise of the modern nation state, and rise of new political-economic systems such as capitalism, democracy, fascism, and communism. The course concludes by examining the devastation of two world wars, Europe’s post-war recovery, and Europe’s new relationship with the world. Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST073 CM
	HIST078 CM - Museums and Leadership: Past, Present, Future Museums count among the greatest institutions ever created. Yet they are more than repositories of knowledge and human accomplishment. They are national symbols, projections of power, and the embodiment of a people’s values. As such, they have often been at the center of political controversy. This course examines the history of museums and the challenges faced by their founders and leaders. Topics include the history of museums in the West; the debate over the possession of antiquities; the disposition of Nazi looted objects; the ethical challenges faced by the leaders of museums; and the future of museums. Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST078 CM
	HIST080 CM - Early America: From Invasion to Civil War This course will survey the history of North America from the sixteenth to the late nineteenth centuries. We will follow along as a small and diverse collection of ramshackle European settlements grew into wealthy colonies, how they fought for independence and established a united republic, and how that republic in turn grew into an empire. We will study this history not in isolation, but within the context of the Atlantic world, and the turbulent flows of peoples, goods, and ideas within it. Offered: Occasionally Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST080 CM
	HIST081 CM - Modern America, 1865 to Present This introductory survey course, beginning with the United States’ emergence in the late 19^th century as an industrialized, urbanized society, traces America’s evolution into a complex, heterogeneous, “modern” state. Offered: Occasionally Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST081 CM
	HIST090 CM - Early American Capitalism: From the Market Revolution to the Gilded Age Between 1815 and 1900, the United States experienced a dramatic transformation, from a minor outpost in the Atlantic economy to the world’s leading manufacturer. The mass market and the large, private corporation became the defining features of American capitalism. This lecture-discussion class will examine the origins and development of that system, with particular attention to its social history. We will ask how diverse communities of Americans constructed, challenged, and were shaped by the expansion of the capitalist economy. Offered: Occasionally Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST090 CM
	HIST095 CM - Introduction to Latin American Cultures This course is an introductory survey of the histories and cultures of Latin America, focusing on struggles for power between elite and popular groups from pre-1492 to the present day. It is divided in four broad sections: The encounter between Europeans and Indigenous peoples and structures of Colonial society; Latin American Independence and the meanings of independence for slaves, women, and others not considered full citizens of emerging nations; Twentieth century nationalisms, revolutions and dictatorships; and, contemporary social movements and politics in Latin America. This is a writing-intensive course geared toward first-years and sophomores. Offered: Every year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST095 CM
	HIST096 CM - The Amazon: From Cannibals to Rainforest Crunch From the time of the conquest, the outside world turned the Amazon into an imagined place to unleash their adventure fantasies about lost cities of gold and their fears about savage jungles and Indians. From a historical perspective, this course interrogates the creation of Amazonia from the nineteenth-century rubber boom to contemporary environmental campaigns. We analyze visual images, explorers’ accounts, ethnographies, novels, films, advertisements and environmental campaigns. The point is to understand how the Amazon and its people have been imagined externally and internally, and why certain narratives hold power in the Western world. Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST096 CM
	HIST097 CM - Human Rights in Latin America: Testimonies The course evaluates testimonial literature, a cross between oral history and biography, as a historical source to locate subaltern voices usually excluded from the official documents used to write history. We debate the truths and validity of such sources and use interpretative tools such as theories on subjectivity, memory and discourse analysis for using testimonial literature as a historical source. We also look at how testimonies have been used as evidence in human rights commissions and translated into mass media for national and international audiences. Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST097 CM
	HIST098 CM - The Americas: Cultural History of Transnational Relations This course examines the modern history of United States and Latin American relations. It employs a cultural approach to interrogate the processes of forming geopolitical distinctions in the twentieth century. While we examine classic cases of U.S. intervention in Latin America and Latin American cases of Anti-Americanism, the framework of transnational history provides a platform to examine hemispheric solidarities and exchanges through primary and secondary sources. Course themes include theories of development (modernization and dependency theories), human rights and Cold War politics, claims of imperialism and anti-Americanism as well as exchanges of popular culture and identities among the peoples and nations of the Americas. Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST098 CM
	HIST100 CM - Freshman Honors Seminar Selected topics in history. By invitation only. Offered: Every year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST100 CM
	HIST100C CH - Chicana/Latina Histories See Pomona College Catalog for course description. Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST100C CH
	HIST100D PO - Political Protest and Social Movements in Latin America See Pomona College Catalog for course description. Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST100D PO
	HIST100I CH - Identity & Culture in Latin America See Pomona College Catalog for course description. Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST100I CH
	HIST100N CH - The Mexico - United States Border See Pomona College Catalog for course description. Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST100N CH
	HIST100VEPO - Venezuela; Democracy to Republic See Pomona College Catalog for course description. Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST100VEPO
	HIST101 CM - Freshman-Sophomore Honors Seminar Selected topics in history. By invitation only. Offered: Every year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST101 CM
	HIST103A CM - From Village to Empire: The History of the Roman Republic, 750-44BCE This course explores the history of Rome from its foundations as a small village in the middle of the 8^th century BCE to its establishment as an imperial power over the Mediterranean world through the 1^st century BCE. Rome’s expansion from a city-state to a world power and the social, political, and economic implications of this expansion will constitute the primary focus of the course. But we will also examine material culture, religion, social customs, sub-elites, and women, and the dynamics of cultural interaction in the ancient Mediterranean. Students will concentrate throughout the course on the primary evidence and the ways in which historians use literary and material sources to uncover different perspectives on the Roman past. First part of a sequence on Roman history. Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST103A CM
	HIST103B CM - Governing Rome: The History of the Roman Empire: 44 BCE - 337 CE This course examines the manifold techniques adopted and adapted by Roman emperors and their representatives to govern a vast territory that at its greatest extent stretched from the British Isles to the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Particular attention will be given to changes in traditional Roman political, social, and cultural practices brought about by the emergence of a monarchical government, economic crises, ethnic diversity, and the rise of Christianity. Part two of a sequence on Roman history. Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST103B CM
	HIST104 CM - Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: 284 - 888 CE Described as Late Antiquity or the Early Middle Ages, the period from Constantine to Charlemagne (roughly 300 to 800 AD) represents an age of vibrant and dynamic cultural transition sometimes viewed as a crucible for the blending of Roman, barbarian and Christian cultural elements. Using the major primary sources and the standard modern accounts for the period, this course will examine the key categories in which cultural change presents itself to the historian-the movement of migrant peoples, the political development of “successor” states, the consolidation of diverse religious practices and the rise of the Catholic Church, material and social changes in urban society, reorientation of economy and land use, and the transmission of an intellectual culture through art and literature that was both heir to Classical tradition and aware of its own novelty. Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST104 CM
	HIST107 CM - Reading Ancient and Medieval Historians Works surviving from the great historians of the ancient and medieval Mediterranean populate the imagination with impressions of distant worlds. But to what extent do these impressions depend on how authors chose to tailor past events to a contemporary political and social background? To what extent did the “great histories” interact with competing versions of the past? This course will address these and other questions by unpacking the famous Greek, Roman, and early-medieval historians and by considering how contemporary contexts shaped the writing of the past. This course offers a comparative cultural and literary approach to reading Herodotus, Thucydides, Livy, Tacitus, Ammianus Marcellinus, Procopius, Gregory of Tours, and Bede. Continuities and differences in the historical portrayal of such themes as politics, violence, gender, and religion will receive particular attention. Offered: Occasionally Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST107 CM
	HIST108 CM - The Age of Cicero: Politics, Philosophy, and Culture at the End of the Roman Republic The life, works, and death of Cicero is in some ways iconic for the last stages of the Roman Republic. Cicero’s life spanned a period of intense political, social, and intellectual change that would inevitably lead to the rise of autocratic emperors. Sometimes a participant, and always an acute observer of affairs in Rome, Cicero provides us with a remarkably detailed picture of an ancient society in evolution. This course will follow, and question the nature of, the end of the Roman Republic through a close inspection of Cicero’s political speeches and court cases, letters to friends (and enemies), and moral and philosophical treatises. Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST108 CM
	HIST110 CM - Topics in Ancient History Selected topics in ancient history. Offered: Occasionally Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST110 CM
	HIST110S CH - Latinx Oral Histories See Pomona College Catalog for course description. Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST110S CH
	HIST111 CM - Topics in European History Selected topics in European history. Offered: Occasionally Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST111 CM
	HIST112 CM - Topics in American History Selected topics in American history. Offered: Occasionally Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST112 CM
	HIST113 CM - US Environmental History This course introduces students to the major themes, movements, and moments in the environmental history of the United States. Environmental historians see the natural world as both a material place and a historical and cultural idea. This class focuses on the theme of “nature:” how human societies have shaped the natural world, how the natural world has shaped human societies, and how ideas about what is “natural”have been created, challenged, and changed in American history from the colonial period to the present. Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST113 CM
	HIST114 CM - Race and Racism in The Colonial Americas This course examines the development of ideas of race and racial difference in the Atlantic World from the 16^th to the 19^th centuries. Contact and interaction between indigenous Americans, Europeans, and Africans produced fabricated categories of social standing that continue to the present day. The class will explore how colonial regimes worked aggressively to police those racial lines. Yet, we will also consider how relations between and among those groups challenged and altered these racial constructs. This will culminate in an overall discussion on the evolution of modern racial attitudes. Offered: Every year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST114 CM
	HIST116 CM - Slavery: A World History This course examines the history of slavery in many global locations across multiple periods of time. Beginning with ancient forms of bound labor, it then traces the growth of slavery in the Americas, built initially upon the enslavement of indigenous people, but ultimately most substantially with African workers. The course closely follows the rise of the transatlantic slave trade from Africa, which produced distinct and variable slave regimes in the Americas. In the process, the class will explore the lived experiences and forms of resistance of those who were enslaved, and includes considerations of modern forms of oppression. Offered: Every year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST116 CM
	HIST117 CM - Race and Ethnicity in Brazil This course examines the Brazilian national narrative of “racial democracy,” or the idea that Brazilian society is a “racial paradise,” lacking racial distinctions due to racial mixing. We examine dominant racial ideologies that preceded the idea of Brazil as a racial democracy, how racial democracy turned into a national project of the Vargas Era (1930-45), and challenges proposed by black intellectuals and indigenous groups. After 1945, the course addresses how ideas of racial democracy intersect with gender/sexuality, modernization policies, people excluded from the national mixed-race type, authoritarian rule, and popular culture. At the end of the course, students debate contemporary racially based policies such as Affirmative Action in Brazil. Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST117 CM
	HIST119 CM - Women and Politics in America This course will analyze the history of American women in political life, broadly defined, from the mid-19^th century to the present. Following a historical chronology, we will consider the debate over the 15^th amendment, the movement for female suffrage. Reforms of the Progressive era, activism through church and community groups, the New Deal, the Civil Rights movement, the women’s movement, and women officeholders today. Throughout we will consider women’s political work as legislators, public policy makers, reformers, and activists. Previously HIST175 CM. Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST119 CM
	HIST120 CM - Native American History This course examines Native American history from the era before European contact to the present. It focuses on the cultural, social, and economic developments of a number of indigenous societies throughout this period. Native people not only built the foundations upon which colonial societies grew, but they were also instrumental in the progression of history in the Americas. This course will explore how Native Americans reacted and adapted to the arrival of European settlers, as well as to how they helped shape the story of the United States. Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST120 CM
	HIST120E CM - American Suburbia and Its Consequences This course will examine the political, cultural, economic and social processes of suburbanization and its consequences in the United States over the past century. We will analyze the policies that gave rise to the growth of American suburbia as well as the popular culture and political constructions that shaped the ideal of the American Dream. Topics include the urban crisis and battles over desegregation, race and class inequality, sprawl and land-use planning, family, education, youth culture, consumer capitalism, the subprime mortgage crisis, and new immigrant, racial and ethnic enclaves. We will pay particular attention to Southern California and the Inland Empire. Previously HIST171 CM. Offered: Occasionally Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST120E CM
	HIST121 CM - United States History Since 1945 This course provides a topical and thematic approach to the history of the United States since 1945. The intersection between politics, culture, and society serves as the course’s main emphasis. Topics include the Cold War, Vietnam, suburbanization, mass consumer culture, the fate of liberalism and the rise of conservatism, the social movements of the Left and the Right, globalization, and the “War on Drugs.” Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST121 CM
	HIST122E CM - American Families This seminar will explore the history of American families in the 20th century. We will examine the changing structure and functions of the family and analyze how the family reflects and shapes larger social, political, and economic developments in American life. Readings an discussions will consider the family in relation to gender, sexuality, childhood, immigration, race, social welfare, and the state. Offered: Occasionally Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST122E CM
	HIST123 CM - History of the American West This course examines the role of the American West within U.S. history from the Gold Rush era to the present. Students will examine major themes within the field such as migration and settlement, the environment, role of the federal government/public policy, popular culture, and the peopling of the West. The course will address historian Frederick Jackson Turner’s thesis regarding the uniqueness of the American experience and character on the frontier. Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST123 CM
	HIST125 CM - Asian American History, 1850 to the Present This survey course examines the history of Asian immigrant groups and their American-born descendants as they have settled and adjusted to life in the United States. We will explore issues such as the experience of immigration, daily life in urban ethnic enclaves, and racist campaigns against Asian immigrants. Throughout the course, we will ask how these issues relate to a larger history of American nation-building and diplomatic relations with Asia. Offered: Occasionally Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST125 CM
	HIST127 CH - American Inequality See Pomona College Catalog for course description. Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST127 CH
	HIST127 CM - Civil War America This seminar examines the American Civil War, from its causes to its legacy. Rather than a traditional military history of the war, we will focus on the political, social, and cultural issues that defined its time. Through primary and secondary sources, we will discuss topics such as slavery, sectionalism, social transformations on the battlefield as well as the home front, emancipation, Reconstruction, and Civil War memory. Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST127 CM
	HIST128 CM - LGBTQ History of the U.S. This course explores the experiences of people in the United States whom we might today define as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or queer. Drawing on recent scholarship, it analyzes those experiences in the context of American political, economic, social, legal, urban, and military history, with emphasis on the 20th century. Topics include changing categories of identity, the role of state policies and actions, the effects of wartime, Cold War persecution, the rise of gay and lesbian liberation movements, the impact of the AIDS epidemic, the emergence of queer theory, debates over military exclusion and same-sex marriage, and the significance of race, religion, class, gender, and region. Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST128 CM
	HIST129 CM - London and Paris in the 19th Century A seminar comparing how these two great urban centers experienced the tremendous social upheavals of the 19^th and early 20^th century. How did the developments of capitalism, revolution, war, urbanization, modernity, and alienation play themselves out in London and Paris between the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the end of the First World War? We will examine historical texts, maps, economic and demographic data, art, architecture, novels, poetry, popular culture, detective stories, photography, and early film. Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST129 CM
	HIST130 CM - Ottoman Power and Urban History This course questions both modernist and Orientalist assumptions concerning urban life in the Middle East on the cusp of a transformative moment in global history—commercialization and the emergence of new imperial forms. We will explore the complex problem of the emergence of a “middle class” which includes changes in the definitions of masculinity and femininity, domestic versus public space, non-Muslim and Muslim participation in civic society, political administration, and the creation and production of culture. Our chronological focus will be on urban centers during the evolution of Ottoman modernity and our historiographic focus will be on the relationship between the built environment and structures of power. Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST130 CM
	HIST131 HM - The Jewish Experience in America See Harvey Mudd College Catalog for course description. Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST131 HM
	HIST131C CM - Crusading Mentalities This seminar explores the causes, meanings, meaningfulness and commemoration of new religious identities shaped by war: from the reconquista in the Iberian Peninsula, to the new heretics in Central Europe and clashes between Latin and Orthodox Christians in Constantinople; and from contentious labels of heretic, Jew, infidel and pagan, to new institutional mechanisms for defining cultural difference around the Mediterranean. The course objective is to understand how a series of events in medieval history that shaped medieval culture led to the invention of a violent paradigm of Islamic-Christian relations intended to mask internal social and religious divisions, and continues to shape the rhetoric of cultural encounter that divides our world today. Offered: Occasionally Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST131C CM
	HIST132 CM - Genocide & Human Rights in 20th Century Europe During the twentieth century, the totality and modern features of the mass murder of civilians proved so alarming and unprecedented that by mid-century observers, led by Raphael Lemkin, developed a new concept for this historical phenomenon: genocide. This course will focus on case studies of genocide and genocide prevention in Europe. How do border changes, nation-state formation, and the collapse and rise of empires trigger ethnic cleansing and genocide as occurred in the Ottoman Empire, the Second World War, and more recently in the post-Soviet conflicts in the former Yugoslavia? Lectures and discussions will delve into specific topics, such as the role of racism, anti-Semitism and biopolitics, the psychological responses of victims, the inclusion of rape as a genocidal war crime, the response of bystanders, perpetrator motivation, and trends in post-genocidal societies such as trials, memorialization and compensation. Offered: Every Two Years Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST132 CM
	HIST132E CM - European Intellectual History: 16th Century to the Present This course examines the reorientation of European thought in the secularization of culture and the beginning of the modern state in the 16^th century; the new ideologies concerning the relation of the individual, society, and nature with the rise of modern science in the 17^th century; the emergence of ideas and progress of evolution in the industrial and post-industrial revolutions of the 18^th to 20^th century; post-modern thought in the late 20^th century. Offered: Occasionally Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST132E CM
	HIST133A CM - Late Imperial Russian History, 1861-1917 This course is designed to offer students a basic knowledge of late imperial Russian politics and culture, and to provide background for understanding the rise of Bolshevism and the Russian Revolution of 1917. Offered: Occasionally Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST133A CM
	HIST133B CM - Modern Russian History, 1917 to the Present This course analyzes Russian society and politics in the Soviet and Post-Soviet periods. Emphasis will be placed on the Russian revolutionary experience, on the origins and implications of Stalinism, on the Soviet Union after Stalin, and on the collapse of the Soviet system in 1991. Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST133B CM
	HIST134 CM - Dostoevskii’s Russia This course is: (1) a study of Dostoevskii’s life, his religious and ideological beliefs as articulated in major fictional and non-fictional works, his contributions to 19^th-century debates about Russia’s place in the world and its historical “mission”; (2) The Russian social, religious and ideological context(s) in which Dostoevskii operated. Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST134 CM
	HIST135 CM - Pseudohistory The objective of this course is to develop the skills needed to distinguish between reliable and unreliable historical arguments. We will examine several sensational arguments about the past that been widely discredited by professional historians - what might be called pseudohistory. The case studies touch on a wide range of regions, including the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia. By comparing pseudohistorical works with serious works of history, and by studying the ways in which professional historians interpret evidence, we will define and analyze the basic elements of historical writing that make an argument trustworthy. Offered: Every year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST135 CM
	HIST138 CM - Europe’s Total Wars This course examines Europe’s 20th century as a series of “total wars,” from the Great War in 1914, through the Second World War and Holocaust, and concluding with the Cold War. It approaches these wars and genocide as a combination of military, economic, ideological, political, cultural, and social developments. The historical concept of “total war” will be discussed, and its horrific reality in modern Russia, Germany, France, England and the Soviet Union will be studied through the written, oral and visual accounts of political leaders, theorists, and ordinary individuals. Special attention will be paid to the themes of children at war, gendered aspects of warfare and genocide, and memory. Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST138 CM
	HIST139E CM - Culture and Society in Weimar and Nazi Germany A study of the transformation of German culture and society from 1919-1945. Begins with intellectual dilemmas of 19^th-century Germany. Examines flourishing culture and political turmoils of Weimar democracy, Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, and Nazi perversions of culture. Focuses on literature, art, architecture, film, and music. Themes include the artist’s role in society, the rise of modernism, art as propaganda, and responses to the Holocaust. Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST139E CM
	HIST140 CM - Gender and Revolution in Europe, 1500-1900 This seminar examines gender and revolution in two intertwined ways. First, how do historical revolutions, including the Protestant and Catholic Reformations; New World colonialism and slavery; political revolutions, including the French Revolution; 19th-century feminism, and modern industrialization confront gender roles and the family? Second, how do gender, sexual, and familial identities undergo historical change and revolution? Students will engage both primary and secondary sources, including philosophical, feminist, anthropological, and biological theory. CMC History majors may use this course to fulfill their pre-1700 requirement by arrangement with the instructor and department chair. Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST140 CM
	HIST142 CM - The Culture of Fascism in 20th Century Europe Provides an understanding of facism in modern Europe by exploring its cultural and intellectual components. After surveying the various fascist movements and considering the competing definitions of the concept, specific topics to be treated include: intellectual roots, theories of psychological appeal, management of the arts in national socialist and fascist Italy, film, architecture and monuments, and the role of the Church. Previously HIST184 CM. Offered: Occasionally Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST142 CM
	HIST142E CM - Culture and Politics in Turn of the Century Europe, 1880-1918 Explores the relationship between politics, culture, and social change in Western and Central Europe. Units will focus on important cities including Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Prague, Budapest, and Paris. Topics include the rise of psychoanalysis, impressionism, and expressionism, conceptions of decadence, cultural pessimism, and anxieties about changing gender roles. Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST142E CM
	HIST143 AF - Slavery & Freedom in the New World See Pomona College Catalog for course description. Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST143 AF
	HIST143A CM - Revolutions in the Atlantic World: Britain, North America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment This course examines the political, economic, intellectual, and cultural revolutions in the northern European and North American world from the late 17^thcentury to the early 19^th century, exploring the rise of democracy, republicanism, liberalism, and the public sphere. Topics will include comparative conceptions of rights, citizenship, and nationalism; the Enlightenment; economic change; women and revolution; violence; culture and the arts as registers of change. Though the course examines the American Revolution, the focus is primarily European. Offered: Occasionally Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST143A CM
	HIST143D CM - Atlantic Revolutions, 1760s-1830s The purpose of this course is to explore the unprecedented wave of servile insurrections, anti-colonial revolts, political revolutions, and wars for independence that spread across the Atlantic world at the turn of the 19^th century. Questions we will ask include: Why did European states and empires suddenly crack apart one by one? How important was the diffusion of new ideas? Why did some colonies seek and win independence, and why not others? How do slave insurrections and native American wars for independence fit into the history of the revolutionary era? What were the connections, both material and ideological, between the North American, French, Haitian, and Latin American revolutions, and how can we understand their different outcomes? Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST143D CM
	HIST144 CM - Reagan’s America: The Politics and Culture of the 1980s Some see the 1980s as “Morning in America” while others view it as a “New Gilded Age.” This course aims to make sense of this polarized reaction by examining a wide range of issues and events. We will pay particular attention to the relationships between politics and popular culture and between foreign and domestic affairs, and the effect of policies and politics on everyday life. In doing so, we will situate the decade within its broader historical context and assess whether the United States today still lives under the shadow of the 1980s. Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST144 CM
	HIST145 PO - Afro-Latin America See Pomona College Catalog for course description. Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST145 PO
	HIST146 CM - History of Germany, 1740 to the Present Traces the history of German lands from Frederick the Great to recent reunification. The rise of Prussia, the mixed responses to the Enlightenment, the emergence of Bismarck, and the creation of a unified German state in 1871, are examined as foundations of modern Germany and as prelude to the devastation of two world wars. Other topics include the nature of the Third Reich, the evolution of the genocidal program, postwar efforts at denazification, the establishment of two Germanies, the tensions of the Cold War, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Offered: Occasionally Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST146 CM
	HIST148C CM - Representing Race and Sex in Britain and the Empire This seminar explores how race, ethnicity, regional difference plus sex and gender were seen as the natural building blocks of national identity in Britain and the British global world, 1600 to the present. The course provides a solid foundation in British and imperial history as it examines how ideas about identity changed over time and facilitated the acquisition-and eventual loss-of a global empire. Offered: Occasionally Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST148C CM
	HIST149 CM - America in Depression and War This course examines the transforming effects of two cataclysmic events in the 20^th century. We will study the ways in which the Great Depression and World War II led to a major reordering of American society, politics, and culture. Topics include social welfare, the growth of the state, race and gender relations, work and organized labor, the impact of new forms of media, economic mobilization, and war and social change. Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST149 CM
	HIST150E CM - The Age of Elizabeth I and Shakespeare: Tudor-Stuart Britain, 1485-1640 Explores the triumphant rise of the 16^th-century Tudor monarchs and their impact on politics, society, religion, and culture, and the troubled role of the 17^th-century Stuart monarchs, the English Civil War, and “Glorious Revolution.” By using several of William Shakespeare’s plays and other cultural sources, the course analyzes how theater, literature, the visual arts, print, and popular culture created mythic national histories and reflected contemporary socio-political concerns. Other topics will include: kingship and state building, the Protestant Reformation, women and family, crime and the poor, early empire building, and slavery. Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST150E CM
	HIST151 CM - Jane Austen’s Britain This course uses Jane Austen’s novels and other primary and secondary sources to explore Britain and the British Empire between 1760-1830. Major themes include: the importance of slavery in the American colonies, including the West Indies; the impact of the American and French Revolutions and Napoleonic Wars; the status of women and the role of family in the making of British identity; the articulation of psychological and moral self-awareness through the domestic novel. Offered: Occasionally Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST151 CM
	HIST151E CM - The Making of Modern Britain From the age of George I to the defeat of Hitler, this course will examine how the British politically, economically, and culturally constructed their nation and empires. Themes will include the British Enlightenment; the rise of capitalism and industry; the acquisition of a world-wide empire in the Americas, India, Africa, and elsewhere; the cultivation of nationalism, Victoria, and Victorianism; the growth of mass politics and culture; the early welfare state; the Seven Years War; the American Revolution; The French and Napoleonic Wars; the Crimean and Boer Wars; the World Wars; the effect of these wars on the home front, literature, and politics. Offered: Every year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST151E CM
	HIST152 CM - Politics and Art in Europe from the Enlightenment to Fascism How do visual imagery, satire, fiction, and film convey political meanings and critiques? Why and how do political revolutionaries use the arts to help remake society? How do political critics use the arts to make their points in more or less provocative ways? How can we read the arts as political artifacts? This seminar will answer these questions by focusing on William Hogarth and 18^th-century Britain; the French Revolution and 1848-1871; imagery of nationalism, race, and colonialism in late 19^th-century Britain and Empire; politics, film, and modernity in Paris, 1919-1945. Offered: Occasionally Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST152 CM
	HIST153 CM - Caste and Class in India and South Asia Why is “caste” the single most important topic in South Asian study that interests both laypeople and specialists? This course is a lecture plus discussion course that looks at the history, politics, sociology, and meanings of caste over the course of Indian history and the present. We will ask whether all its changing formations refer to the same reality. We will study its relations to religion, both Hinduism and other religions, to gender, to the family and society, and to economic exchange and profit. Most of all we look at alternative divisions of society and question how “caste” may be differentiated from “class.” Offered: Occasionally Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST153 CM
	HIST154 CM - Makers of Modern India & Pakistan This course focuses on Gandhi, Jinnah and Nehru, and looks at a dozen other important leaders of the 19^th and 20^th centuries in South Asia. We are interested in two groups of questions. The first includes: what about the social, economic, political and intellectual contexts of the period produced leaders like these? How are leaders created in modern South Asia? Who is excluded? The second cluster includes: what kind of a new nation did these leaders wish to create? What were the creative impulses in their vision? What were the limitations? We will read original works by these and other leaders and sift through the most important interpretations of their leadership. Offered: Every year Credit: 1 Course Number: HIST154 CM

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Courses

GOVT181 CM - Crime and Public Policy

GOVT182 CM - Church and State in American Constitutionalism

GOVT185 CM - The Supreme Court and Criminal Procedure

GOVT186 CM - the Death Penalty Debate in Philosophy, Religion, Law, and Popular Culture

GOVT187 CM - Women and the Law

GOVT189 CM - Seminar in Legal Studies

GOVT191 CM - Public Policy Since the New Deal

GOVT192 CM - Liberalism and Conservatism

GOVT193 CM - Presidential War Powers

GOVT196 CM - International Human Rights

GOVT199 CM - Independent Study in Government

HIST017 CH - Introduction to Chicanx-Latinx History

HIST025 CH - All Power to the People!

HIST028 CH - Revolutions, Uprisings, Coups, and Interventions in the Americas since 1910

HIST031 CH - Colonial Latin American History

HIST032 CH - Latin America Since Independence

HIST034 CH - Mexico, from Indigenous Societies to Modern State

HIST040 AF - History of Africa to 1800

HIST041 AF - History of Africa from 1800

HIST050A AF - African Diaspora in the United States to 1877

HIST050B AF - African Diaspora in the United States since 1877

HIST051 CM - Modern South Asian History through its Literature, 1700 to the Present

HIST052 CM - South Asian History: An Introduction

HIST053 CM - Everyday Life in South Asia, 1700 to the Present

HIST054 CM - Bread and Circuses: The Politics of Roman Private Life

HIST055 CM - The Middle East: From Muhammad to the Mongols

HIST056 CM - The Middle East: From the Ottomans to the Present

HIST059 CM - Civilizations of East Asia

HIST061 CM - The New Asia: China, Japan and Korea in the Modern Era

HIST068 CM - Disasters in the Ancient Mediterranean

HIST071 CM - The Making of Medieval Europe: 800-1300 CE

HIST072 CM - The Making of Early Modern Europe, 1300-1800

HIST073 CM - The Rise of Modern Europe, 1750 to the Present

HIST078 CM - Museums and Leadership: Past, Present, Future

HIST080 CM - Early America: From Invasion to Civil War

HIST081 CM - Modern America, 1865 to Present

HIST090 CM - Early American Capitalism: From the Market Revolution to the Gilded Age

HIST095 CM - Introduction to Latin American Cultures

HIST096 CM - The Amazon: From Cannibals to Rainforest Crunch

HIST097 CM - Human Rights in Latin America: Testimonies

HIST098 CM - The Americas: Cultural History of Transnational Relations

HIST100 CM - Freshman Honors Seminar

HIST100C CH - Chicana/Latina Histories

HIST100D PO - Political Protest and Social Movements in Latin America

HIST100I CH - Identity & Culture in Latin America

HIST100N CH - The Mexico - United States Border

HIST100VEPO - Venezuela; Democracy to Republic

HIST101 CM - Freshman-Sophomore Honors Seminar

HIST103A CM - From Village to Empire: The History of the Roman Republic, 750-44BCE

HIST103B CM - Governing Rome: The History of the Roman Empire: 44 BCE - 337 CE

HIST104 CM - Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: 284 - 888 CE

HIST107 CM - Reading Ancient and Medieval Historians

HIST108 CM - The Age of Cicero: Politics, Philosophy, and Culture at the End of the Roman Republic

HIST110 CM - Topics in Ancient History

HIST110S CH - Latinx Oral Histories

HIST111 CM - Topics in European History

HIST112 CM - Topics in American History

HIST113 CM - US Environmental History

HIST114 CM - Race and Racism in The Colonial Americas

HIST116 CM - Slavery: A World History

HIST117 CM - Race and Ethnicity in Brazil

HIST119 CM - Women and Politics in America

HIST120 CM - Native American History

HIST120E CM - American Suburbia and Its Consequences

HIST121 CM - United States History Since 1945

HIST122E CM - American Families

HIST123 CM - History of the American West

HIST125 CM - Asian American History, 1850 to the Present

HIST127 CH - American Inequality

HIST127 CM - Civil War America

HIST128 CM - LGBTQ History of the U.S.

HIST129 CM - London and Paris in the 19th Century

HIST130 CM - Ottoman Power and Urban History

HIST131 HM - The Jewish Experience in America

HIST131C CM - Crusading Mentalities

HIST132 CM - Genocide & Human Rights in 20th Century Europe

HIST132E CM - European Intellectual History: 16th Century to the Present

HIST133A CM - Late Imperial Russian History, 1861-1917

HIST133B CM - Modern Russian History, 1917 to the Present