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HIST 1200
Course Description
How can we learn about the past? How do we tell stories about the past? How do we judge the truth of falsity of evidence? Writing History seminars introduce students to many different ways of interpreting ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Writing Revolution
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- TR
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Finck, M
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Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Topic: FWS: Transgenerational Memory and Storytelling
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- MWF
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Nguyen, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Topic: FWS: Writing Gender & Intimacy in SE Asian History
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- TR
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Zhang, L
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
HIST 1265
Course Description
Anarchism. What is it good for? A political philosophy and approach to social organization that arose simultaneously with other grand “–isms,” anarchism, more than any other idea and practice, has been ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Meeting Pattern
- TR
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Craib, R
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
HIST 1285
Course Description
Why have kings consulted astrologers before going to war? Why did Galileo construct horoscopes? This course traces astrology’s long history as a serious way of understanding the world. We will examine ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Meeting Pattern
- MW
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Webb, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
HIST 1402
Course Description
This course looks at Islam as a global phenomenon, both historically and in the contemporary world. We spend time on the genesis of Islam in the Middle East, but then move across the Muslim would in various ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Tagliacozzo, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
HIST 1412
Course Description
Is the United States a nation of freedom-loving individualists or club-joining conformists? Both, obviously. How, then, have Americans reconciled their enthusiasm for personal independence and individual ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Clark, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
HIST 1585
Course Description
This course will explore the relationship between sports and politics over the course of American history since the 19th century. Sports and politics have come together surprisingly frequently in the last ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 1585
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Glickman, L
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- W
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
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Staff
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- W
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
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- R
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- R
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- R
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- W
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
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- W
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
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- R
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
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- R
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
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HIST 1740
Course Description
This course explores the history of imperial China between the 3rd century b.c.e. and the 16th century c.e. with a focus on the following questions: How did imperial Chinese states go about politically ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASIAN 2740, CAPS 1740, MEDVL 1740
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Hinrichs, T
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- F
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Staff
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- F
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Staff
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- F
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
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HIST 1802
Course Description
This course seeks a fuller recounting of U.S. history by remapping what we understand as America. We will examine traditional themes in the teaching of U.S. history-territorial expansion and empire, migration ... view course details
HIST 1920
Course Description
This course surveys modern Chinese history from 1600 to present. Time will be devoted to each of the three major periods into which modern Chinese history is conventionally divided: the Imperial ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASIAN 2920, CAPS 1920
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Du, M
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- W
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
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Staff
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HIST 1930
Course Description
By posing seemingly simple questions such as what is love and who has the right to love, this introductory-level lecture course surveys how love has been experienced and expressed from the pre-modern period ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASIAN 2930, FGSS 1940, LGBT 1940, SHUM 1930
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Ghosh, D
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- F
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Staff
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- F
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
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Staff
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- F
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
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- F
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
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- F
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
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HIST 1970
Course Description
What is the Caribbean? How did its native inhabitants fared in the aftermath of the arrival of Europeans? How did the region shift from a Spanish Lake to a heavily contested geopolitical site where all ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one independent study. Combined with: ASRC 1790, LATA 1970
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- MW
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Bassi Arevalo, E
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Instruction Mode: In Person
HIST 1986
Course Description
This course provides an overview of disastrous attempts at colonization in the Americas from ca. 1500 through ca. 1760. Over thirteen weeks, we will engage with the question of why some attempts at colonization ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 1986, ASRC 1986, LATA 1986
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Schmitt, C
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- R
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Staff
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- F
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
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Staff
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- R
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
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HIST 2001
Course Description
Independent Study based supervised reading with history faculty. Student must complete Independent Study Form with faculty supervisor for determining requirements and for permission to enroll through ... view course details
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
2 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Staff
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Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
See https://as.cornell.edu/registrar/independent-study for more information on applying for Independent Study.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
HIST 2005
Course Description
Educational historian Frederick Rudolph called Cornell University the first American university, referring to its unique role as a coeducational, nonsectarian, land-grant institution with a broad curriculum ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 2001, ENGL 2999
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Credits and Grading Basis
1 Credit Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Earle, C
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
If you are unable to enroll, see https://forms.gle/8KKWpd2E2TWeieM16 to add yourself to the waitlist.
HIST 2006
Course Description
This course is a seminar focused on a service-learning approach to understanding the history of neoliberal transformations of the global economy through the lens of an island (Jamaica) and a community ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one field studies. Combined with: AMST 2016, ASRC 2006
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Baptist, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
HIST 2035
Course Description
This seminar will explore several periods in western history that have dark reputations, and several strategies that people have used to help them survive. Some of the units cover crises that most historians ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Sachs, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
HIST 2325
Course Description
This course focuses on the rise and fall of the Athenian empire, beginning with its roots in the late Archaic period, continuing through its height in the mid-fifth century BCE, and ending with the city?s ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 2625
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
HIST 2353
Course Description
This course explores the changing meaning of American freedom and citizenship in the context of the long struggle for black liberation. Relying on social and political history, it confronts the promise, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: AMST 2353, ASRC 2353
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- MW
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Rickford, R
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
HIST 2435
Course Description
Maoism and Chinese Communism are not history after Mao's death in 1976. In China, Maoism holds the key to the enduring success of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), one of the most remarkable organizations ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ASIAN 2425, CAPS 2435, SHUM 2435
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Meeting Pattern
- TR
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Sun, P
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
HIST 2462
Course Description
In this course we will read some of the most influential micro-history writers and explore examples of different subgenres of microhistory, such as individual biographies, family histories, social histories ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: NES 2462, SHUM 2462
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- TR
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Minawi, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
HIST 2482
Course Description
Recovering the People's Past is a public history seminar that focuses on the ways that a diversity of people have shaped the U.S. past and how the creation of museums and broader forms of popular shape ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: SHUM 2481
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Meeting Pattern
- TR
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Suarez, C
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
HIST 2543
Course Description
World War II was one of the most transformative periods in the history of the 20th century. As a result, scholars, writers and filmmakers continue to re-examine the war from multiple angles. Nonetheless, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one independent study. Combined with: ASRC 2543
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Byfield, J
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Instruction Mode: In Person
HIST 2548
Course Description
Buddhism is now a global religion. How did it become one? Well before the digital age, traveling Buddhists and Buddhist objects moved across vast geographies, transforming communities along the way. The ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 2248, RELST 2248
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
HIST 2575
Course Description
This course focuses on the human condition of Chinese women after 1949. In the name of the Women's liberation movement since the early 1900s, do Chinese women eventually hold up the half sky? From the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one independent study. Combined with: ASIAN 2575, CAPS 2575, FGSS 2575
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Sun, P
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Instruction Mode: In Person
HIST 2581
Course Description
This lecture course serves as an introduction to the historical study of humanity's interrelationship with the natural world. Environmental history is a quickly evolving field, taking on increasing importance ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2581, BSOC 2581
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- TR
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Sachs, A
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- R
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Staff
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- R
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
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Staff
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- F
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
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HIST 2616
Course Description
Alexander the Great’s conquest of the Persian empire in 330 BCE changed the ancient world forever, expanding the Greek world beyond the Mediterranean as far as India. In this course we will look at the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: NES 2622
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
HIST 2674
Course Description
This course examines major trends in the evolution of the Middle East in the modern era. Focusing on the 19th and 20th centuries and ending with the Arab Spring, we will consider Middle East history with ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASRC 2674, GOVT 2747, NES 2674
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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
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Fahmy, Z
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- F
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Fahmy, Z
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- F
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
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Fahmy, Z
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- F
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
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Fahmy, Z
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HIST 2689
Course Description
This course offers an introduction to the history of the Roman empire, from the prehistoric settlements on the site of Rome to the fall of the Western empire in the fifth century and its revival in the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 2689
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
HIST 2691
Course Description
This lecture course principally examines the writings and visual art of the Russian intelligentsia in relation to the idea of revolution (approximately from the 1820s to the 1920s). How did the intelligentsia ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 2691
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
HIST 2727
Course Description
What does it mean to be queer in the Middle East? How do queer Muslims and Arabs navigate their sexuality around contemporary legal barriers to same-sex sexual intercourse and social disapprobation? How ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 2727, LGBT 2727, MEDVL 2727, NES 2727, RELST 2727
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
HIST 2765
Course Description
In this course, we will learn about the history of the West. We will deconstruct popular myths about the West, as we engage with the major themes and significant debates that define the historical scholarship. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one independent study. Combined with: AMST 2775, LSP 2765
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Suarez, C
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
HIST 2816
Course Description
The course aims to put the current AI “revolution” in historical context by examining in depth the so-called first industrial revolution, which began in Britain and spread around the world from c. 1780-1880. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: STS 2316
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
HIST 2854
Course Description
In modern Hebrew, the word kabbalah is a common noun which means, simply, receipt. But the proper noun Kabbalah refers to the received tradition of Jewish myth-making, which extends from early biblical ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: JWST 2854
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
HIST 2955
Course Description
Why no socialism in America? Scholars and activists have long pondered the relative dearth (compared to other industrialized societies) of sustained, popular, anticapitalist activity in the United States. ... view course details
HIST 3002
Course Description
Independent Study based supervised research with a history faculty member. Student must complete an on-line Independent Study form with a faculty supervisor to determine requirements and for permission. ... view course details
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
See https://as.cornell.edu/registrar/independent-study for more information on applying for Independent Study.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
HIST 3008
Course Description
An introduction to Old Norse-Icelandic mythology and the Icelandic family saga-the native heroic literary genre of Icelandic tradition. Texts will vary but will normally include the Prose Edda, the Poetic ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3080, MEDVL 3080
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
HIST 3165
Course Description
This course will consider efforts to reinvent romantic love, marriage, and parenthood in the French, Russian/Soviet, and American traditions. We will study theoretical writing from influential utopian ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3165, RUSSL 3165
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
HIST 3345
Course Description
This course explores the waves of rebellion, and reaction, that swept the globe in the 1960s. From Dakar to Havana, from Beijing to Paris, we will examine the events, social movements, actors, places and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one independent study. Combined with: ASRC 3345
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Tolan-Szkilnik, P
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Instruction Mode: In Person
HIST 3519
Course Description
In the conditions of strict censorship and numerous limitations on various forms of political organization and activism, literature and cinema, especially Iran's internationally acclaimed art cinematography, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: NES 3519
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
HIST 3542
Course Description
This course will take the students through the age of reforms in the Ottoman Empire, the rising of nationalism, and the encroachment of colonialism in the Middle East, North Africa and the Balkans, and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one independent study. Combined with: NES 3542
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Meeting Pattern
- TR
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Minawi, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
HIST 3571
Course Description
America has fought two wars in the 21st century, in Iraq and Afghanistan. They were the longest wars in American history and ended badly, amid much ambivalence about the defense policies that created them. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3571, PUBPOL 3515, PUBPOL 5515
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
HIST 3602
Course Description
This course examines the history of culture in North America from the pre-contact era to present. We will examine how Native, African, European, Asian, and Latino/a influences, along with colonization, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3602
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
HIST 3653
Course Description
This lecture course examines the history of the idea and practice of development in twentieth century Africa. Since the 1990s, the US, with some input from other western nations, has had relative hegemony ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 3653
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
HIST 3709
Course Description
The generative age of AI has arrived—and with it a profound question: what happens when machines begin to write the humanities? This seminar takes the most extreme case of modern violence, the Holocaust, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3709, GERST 3709, JWST 3709
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
HIST 3750
Course Description
This course invites students to consider how Black women interacted with material objects and how these artifacts informed the contexts of their daily lives. the history of Black women as creators, consumers, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one independent study. Combined with: AMST 3752, ASRC 3750
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Alexander, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
HIST 3825
Course Description
It may seem obvious that World War II was a global event, but the history of the war has often been told within national frames: the story of Britain standing alone in the Blitz, the surprise Japanese ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Lawlor, R
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
HIST 3884
Course Description
Across twentieth-century history, race and war have been dynamic forces in shaping economic organization and everyday livelihoods. This course will approach labor and working-class history, through a focus ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AAS 3885, AMST 3885, ILRGL 3885
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
HIST 3960
Course Description
Surveys the modern history of Southeast Asia with special attention to colonialism, the Chinese diaspora, and socio-cultural institutions. Considers global transformations that brought the West into people's ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one independent study. Combined with: ASIAN 3396, ASIAN 6696, HIST 6960
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Loos, T
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
HIST 3980
Course Description
The Pacific Horizon is a long one; it stretches from Chile west across the world's largest ocean to places such as Australia and Japan, and then back across the ocean again to North America. All the while ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AAS 3980, ASIAN 3980
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Craib, R
Tagliacozzo, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Staff
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Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Staff
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Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
HIST 4000
Course Description
This seminar is an introduction to the theory, practice, and art of historical research and writing. One key purpose of this course is to prepare students to work on longer research projects-especially ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Hinrichs, T
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
HIST 4002
Course Description
This course is designed to facilitate student's successful completion of their History Department Honors theses through regular deadlines and small group writing workshops. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one research.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Sandwell, R
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Department Consent Required (Add)
HIST 4041
Course Description
Since Columbus's arrival to the Americas, a number of commodities have bound together Europe, Africa, and the Americas, drastically changing the lives of many people on both sides of the Atlantic. Covering ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: HIST 6041
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Bassi Arevalo, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
HIST 4076
Course Description
How did the U.S. and China reach this precarious moment? Are they on the brink of a hot war, or can diplomacy still prevent the worst? Is a cold peace even possible? This course critically examines the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: AMST 4076, AMST 6076, ASIAN 4076, ASIAN 6076, CAPS 4076, HIST 6076
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Sun, P
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
HIST 4116
Course Description
This seminar investigates the period of the so-called “scientific revolution.” As a foundational narrative of modernity, the scientific revolution posits a radical break from a medieval past, best exemplified ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: BSOC 4116, STS 4116
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Schneider, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
HIST 4172
Course Description
Tolstoy is impossible. An aristocrat who renounced the privileges of wealth and rank. A man of titanic appetites who repudiated meat, alcohol and sex. A Christian who did not believe in God and tried to ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: RUSSL 4172, SHUM 4172
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
HIST 4243
Course Description
This class moves beyond the traditional disciplinary confines of academic history to examine museums, archival collections, parks, monuments, podcasts, op-eds, maps, and more as sites of historical inquiry, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: HIST 6243, SHUM 4243, SHUM 6243
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Martin, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
HIST 4303
Course Description
This course examines the rise of nationalism as well as the process and aims of decolonization in sub-Saharan Africa. It draws on films and a variety of primary and secondary materials in order to illuminate ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ASRC 4303, ASRC 6303, HIST 6303
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Byfield, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
HIST 4424
Course Description
When disaster strikes – war, earthquake, epidemic, nuclear fallout – how do people survive and rebuild? This course explores the history and aftermath of natural disasters and man-made catastrophes. Such ... view course details
HIST 4667
Course Description
This seminar examines the emergence of national identities, nationalist movements, and nation-states in the modern Arab world. First, we will examine various approaches to the question of nationalism, ... view course details
HIST 4685
Course Description
This course focuses on one of early modern Europe’s most influential and contentious institutions: the university. Universities were central pillars of premodern European society and played host to some ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: STS 4685
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Webb, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
HIST 4772
Course Description
As China, with its China Dream, rises in power on the global stage, what China means to its inhabitants and outsiders has become an issue increasingly relevant to business, international relations, and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4478, ASIAN 6679, CAPS 4772, HIST 6772
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
HIST 4851
Course Description
Since World War II, over 4 million people have migrated to the United States as refugees. In this seminar we will examine some of these refugee migrations and the ways these migrations challenged ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: AMST 4851, HIST 6851, LSP 4851, LSP 6851
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Garcia, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
HIST 6000
Course Description
This seminar is devoted entirely to the writing of a substantive research paper, the dissertation prospectus, or fellowship proposal. Students will share research proposals, annotated bibliographies, outlines ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Loos, T
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
HIST 6002
Course Description
This workshop-style course provides a weekly opportunity for graduate students across all the fields of History and related disciplines to learn about different skills and competencies to succeed in graduate ... view course details
HIST 6006
Course Description
This course is a forum, organized jointly by students and the Director of Graduate Studies, for the reading and discussion of precirculated papers, written mainly by graduate students in the History program. ... view course details
HIST 6010
Course Description
A research colloquium designed for European history graduate students. The colloquium will offer a forum for students to present papers and to discuss the work of Europeanists at Cornell as well as visiting ... view course details
HIST 6041
Course Description
Since Columbus's arrival to the Americas, a number of commodities have bound together Europe, Africa, and the Americas, drastically changing the lives of many people on both sides of the Atlantic. Covering ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: HIST 4041
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Bassi Arevalo, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
HIST 6076
Course Description
How did the U.S. and China reach this precarious moment? Are they on the brink of a hot war, or can diplomacy still prevent the worst? Is a cold peace even possible? This course critically examines the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: AMST 4076, AMST 6076, ASIAN 4076, ASIAN 6076, CAPS 4076, HIST 4076
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Sun, P
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
HIST 6197
Course Description
This course introduces students to the latest research methodologies and scholarly debates that have animated and reshaped the history of slavery and abolition in recent years. Assigned readings will approach ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Schmitt, C
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
HIST 6202
Course Description
This course will explore the relationship between popular belief, political action, and the institutional deployment of social power. The class will be roughly divided in three parts, opening with a discussion ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: AMST 6202, ANTHR 6102, GOVT 6202
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Bensel, R
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
HIST 6221
Course Description
This graduate seminar offers an introduction to environmental history: the study of human interactions with nonhuman nature in the past. It is a subfield within the historical discipline that has complex ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: STS 6121
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
HIST 6225
Course Description
This course calls into question the public use of history. The past is permanently mobilized according to the culture and the problems of the present. Over the last decades, "memory" - a general concept ... view course details
HIST 6243
Course Description
This class moves beyond the traditional disciplinary confines of academic history to examine museums, archival collections, parks, monuments, podcasts, op-eds, maps, and more as sites of historical inquiry, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: HIST 4243, SHUM 4243, SHUM 6243
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Martin, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
HIST 6303
Course Description
This course examines the rise of nationalism as well as the process and aims of decolonization in sub-Saharan Africa. It draws on films and a variety of primary and secondary materials in order to illuminate ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ASRC 4303, ASRC 6303, HIST 4303
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Byfield, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
HIST 6509
Course Description
This graduate-level seminar will introduce students to the latest historical methodologies and debates in the legal history of modern imperialism and colonialism. Readings will focus mainly on the legal ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Travers, T
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
HIST 6667
Course Description
This seminar examines the emergence of national identities, nationalist movements, and nation-states in the modern Arab world. First, we will examine various approaches to the question of nationalism, ... view course details
HIST 6772
Course Description
As China, with its China Dream, rises in power on the global stage, what China means to its inhabitants and outsiders has become an issue increasingly relevant to business, international relations, and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4478, ASIAN 6679, CAPS 4772, HIST 4772
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
HIST 6851
Course Description
Since World War II, over 4 million people have migrated to the United States as refugees. In this seminar we will examine some of these refugee migrations and the ways these migrations challenged ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: AMST 4851, HIST 4851, LSP 4851, LSP 6851
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Garcia, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Department Consent Required (Add)
HIST 6960
Course Description
Surveys the modern history of Southeast Asia with special attentions to colonialism, the Chinese diaspora, and socio-cultural institutions. Considers global transformations that brought the West into people's ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASIAN 3396, ASIAN 6696, HIST 3960
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW
- Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Loos, T
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
HIST 7937
Course Description
The Proseminar in Peace Studies offers a multidisciplinary review of issues related to peace and conflict at the graduate level. The course is led by the director of the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace ... view course details
HIST 8004
Course Description
Independent Study based supervised reading with a history faculty/field member. view course details
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
