History

Department of History
Conklin Hall, Room 323
Phone: 973/353-5410
Fax:     973/353-1193
http://history.newark.rutgers.edu

SEE ALSO: HISTORY, AMERICAN

HISTORY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION I (3 cr.)
21:510:201:B1:92915
DAY: 5/26-7/2
MTWTh 10:15-12:00
HARRIS         CONKLIN 342

62:510:201:B6:94256
EVE: 5/26-7/2
MW 6:00-9:45
GOMEZ-RIVERA         CONKLIN 455

The main developments in history of ideas and institutions from earliest times to the 1700; consideration of historical material serves as a point of departure for discussion of present-day problems.

HISTORY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION II (3 cr.)
21:510:202:B1:94255
DAY: 5/26-7/2
MTWTh 10:15-12:00
HARRIS         CONKLIN 342

62:510:202:H6:91883
EVE: 7/6-8/12
MW 6:00-9:30
GOMEZ-RIVERA     CONKLIN 455

The main developments in history of Western ideas and institutions from 1700 to the present; consideration of historical material serves as a point of departure for discussion of present-day problems.

HISTORY OF AFRICA (3 cr.)
21:510:263:B1:92916
DAY: 5/26-7/2
MTWTh 1:00-2:45
SAMATAR     CONKLIN 342

Political, religious, economic, and social development of the peoples of Africa south of the Sahara from about 500 AD to the present.

STUDY ABROAD GREECE (3 cr.)
21:510:299:H1:92490
DAY: 7/6-8/8
FARNEY

This course, taught abroad in Greece during the summer, introduces students to two millennia of Greek history. Visiting numerous museums, archaeological sites, in addition to ample on-site and in classroom lecture, students will concentrate upon historical issues involving the Archaic, Classical Hellenistic and Roman periods. It is taught and must be registered in conjunction with Ancient and Medieval Civilizations, 060:339.

FILM & HISTORY (3 cr.)
62:510:301:B6:94221
EVE: 5/26-7/2
TTh 6:00-9:30
COWANS           CONKLIN 352

Examines the relationship between movies and history, focusing mainly on feature films. The course seeks less to list the films' inaccuracies than to identify and analyze how and why they mythologize the past. By learning to spot films' ideologies, assumptions, strategies, and visions of the past, one can identify the historical evolution of modern societies' dominant mythologies, values, and beliefs.

SPAIN SINCE 1700 (3 cr.)
21:510:375:H1:94222
DAY: 7/6-8/12
MTWTh 10:15-12:00
GOMEZ DEL MORAL      CONKLIN 342

The history of Spain from the middle ages to the present. First term: Muslim conquest; interactions among Muslims, Christians, and Jews; Christian reconquest; formation of a Spanish state; advent of overseas empire; role of the Church. Second term: Enlightenment reforms; Napoleonic wars and popular revolt; Basque and Catalan movements; economic development and modernization; rise of anarchism and socialism; Spanish Civil War; Franco regime; democracy since 1975.

COLONIALISM & DECOLONIALISM (3 cr.)
62:510:379:H6:94257
EVE: 7/6-8/12
TTh 6:00-9:45
FONTAINE           HILL 108

The final century of colonialism, focusing on imperialist thought and justifications for empire, mutual perceptions of colonizers and colonized, and the growth of anti-imperialism.

INDIVIDUAL STUDY IN HISTORY (BA cr.)
21:510:499:T1:91340
5/26-8/12
MEETING TIME BY ARRANGEMENT

By permission only.

Historical research on a more systematic level than is normally possible in lecture courses.