History at Bryn Mawr College
PS#CRS#CRTITLE OF COURSEProfessor(s)/Instructor(s)DIV
1262B101 011.0The Historical ImaginationKale
TTH 10:00 AM-11:30 AM
SO I or III
DAL212A
1263B102 011.0Intro to African CivilizationsNgalamulume
MW 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
SO I
CARP21
1264B125 011.0The Discovery of Europe
New Course: This course is designed to introduce you to the discipline of history through a critical, historical examination of the idea of Europe. When and why have Europeans thought of themselves as such? How have the boundaries of Europe drawn? Does Europe really exist? Enrollment limited to 15, all seats held for in coming freshmen. Preference given to freshman and then sophomores after freshmen registration.
Spohrer
MW 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
HU III
CARP21
1950B131 011.0Chinese Civilization
Cross-listed with EAST B131.
Jiang
MW 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
SO I or III
TH102
1265B200 011.0The Atlantic World 1492-1800
Indians, Europeans and Africans
Counts toward Peace and Conflict Studies Concentration and Counts towards the Hispanic American Studies Concentration Enrollment limited to 30 students. Cross listed with ANTH B200.
Gallup-Diaz
MW 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
Indians, Europeans and Africans
SO I or III
DAL119
1266B202 011.0American Hist: Civil War-Pres
This semester begins at the collapse of the young United States in Civil War and the subsequent rebuilding of a new country. We will look at the developing industrial and international power that will emerge in the late nineteenth and twentieth century. Course emphasizes social history as well as political developments and looks at the powerful impact of race, class, and gender on the production of a distinctly "American" ideology. Enrollment limited to 40 students.
Ullman
MW 10:00 AM-11:30 AM
SO I or III
DAL300
1267B203 011.0High Middle Ages
Cross listed with CSTS B203.
Truitt
TTH 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
HU I or III
BYC127
1430B205 011.0Greek History
Cross listed with CSTS B205.
Edmonds
MW 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
SO III
CARP17
1268B225 011.019th Century Europe:
Industry, Empire and Globalization
The nineteenth century was a period of intense change in Europe. Some of the questions this class considers are: the relationship between empire, plantation-style agriculture, and industrialization; the development of transportations and communication networks, multinational companies, a mass press, film, and tourism as early markers of globalization.
Spohrer
TTH 10:00 AM-11:30 AM
Industry, Empire and Globalization
SO III
TH102
1467B240 011.0Mod Middle East Cities
Cross listed with HEBR B248, POLS B248 and CITY B248. Enrollment limited to 30 students, by class year and major.
Harrold
TTH 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
no topic
SO I
DAL119
1269B263 011.0Impact of EmpireKale
TTH 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
SO III
DAL6
1435B326 011.0Topics in Chinese Hist. & Cult
Legal Culture and Chinese History
In this course, we will examine linkages between science and colonialism in the East Asian context. In particular, we will investigate whether theories based on Western colonizers are equally appropriate for Qing and Japanese tactics of empire. Topics will include: cosmology, race and ethnicity, industry, and military technology. Enrollment limited to 30 students. Cross listed with EAST B325.
Jiang
TTH 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Legal Culture and Chinese History
SO
DAL6
1270B357 011.0Topics in British Empire:
Race, Nation and the Making of Britain
Using a wide range of visual and literary sources, this seminar on British empire will explore the politics of race and nation -- both "at home" and "away" -- in the making of Britain in the 20th century. Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Concentration. Prerequisites: History 257 or 258, or permission of instructor. Enrollment limited to 15 students.
Kale
M 1:00 PM-4:00 PM
Race, Nation and the Making of Britain
SO I or III
DAL6
1271B368 011.0Topics in Medieval History
The Dark Arts: Medieval Magic
The study of intellectual culture through investigation of systems of education within their cultural, political and social settings, considering the social implication of literacy rates, the recipients of education, and the political and cultural exclusions of those lacking education. Also considers the material culture of education and the modified systems of education which expressed and reinforced distinctive values. Cross listed with CSTS B368.Enrollment limited to 15 students.
Truitt
W 1:00 PM-4:00 PM
SO III
DAL1
1272B371 011.0Early Modern Pirate
Enrollment limited to 15.
Gallup-Diaz
T 1:00 PM-4:00 PM
SO
DAL25
1273B381 011.0History and Memory
New Course: This course will bring together the latest research findings from the fields of neuroscience, psychology and neurobiology with the insights into human memory from the fields of literature and art history into a discussion of the implications for the writing of history. Prerequisite: senior standing. Enrollment limited to 15 students.
Shore
M 7:00 PM-9:30 PM
HU III
DAL212A
1274B395 011.0Exploring History
Enrollment limited to 15 senior History majors only.
Ngalamulume
T 7:00 PM-9:00 PM

TH251
1530B403 011.0Supervised WorkSO
History at Haverford College
H111A011.0Introduction to Western Civilization
Enrollment limited to 25 students.
Lottery preference: 20 slots for Class of '12; 5 to others.
L.Graham
TTh 11:30-1:00

SO III
Hall 201
 
 
H111A021.0Introduction to Western Civilization
L.Gerstein
MW 12:30-2:00

SO III
Hall 201
 
 
H206A011.0North American Environmental History

NEW COURSE.This course explores the complicated interactions between human communities and nonhuman natural environments in North America from the pre-Columbian period to the present. Topics include the "ecological Indian," the invasion of plant and animal species at the moment of cultural contact, the bison, hunt, law and water, urban environments, wilderness, and recent calls for environmental justice, amongst other topics.
R.Edgington
TTh 1:00-2:30

SO I
Hall 107
 
 
H212A011.0Nations & Nationalism in Modern Latin America

NEW COURSE.This course provides a survey of how the nation has been imagined by different, often competing, groups in Latin America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The course will include a blend of chronological overviews and thematic lectures about the role of nationalism in independence movements; national identity from above and from below in the post-colonial period; nationalism, populism & revolution in the twentieth century; nation, globalization & mass immigration.
T.Rath
TTh 11:30-1:00

SO III
Hall 106
 
 
H215A011.0Sport and Society
An introductory social science course.
Enrollment limited to 50 students.
Lottery preference:Sophomores or above. No Frosh.
A.Kitroeff/G.Kannerstein
TTh 10:00-11:30

SO I
Chase 104
 
 
H226A011.0Twentieth Century Europe
L.Gerstein
TTh 11:30-1:00

SO III
Hall 107
 
 
H227A011.0Statecraft and Selfhood in Early Modern Europe
Sophomore standing or above.
L.Graham
TTh 2:30-4:00

SO III
Hall 106
 
 
H243A011.0African American Political and Social Thought: Black Modernism, 1895-1945
P.Jefferson
MW 12:30-2:00

SO III
Hall 112
 
 
H260A011.0Mid-Imperial China
Cross-listed in East Asian Studies
Prerequisite: Not open to Freshmen.
Enrollment limited to 30 students.
EAST and HIST Majors first.
P.Smith
MW 2:30-4:00

HU III
Hall 107
 
 
H319A011.0Revolution made Government: State & Society in post-revolutionary Mexico

NEW COURSE.The first social revolution of the 20th C took place in Mexico, and brought with it unprecedented popular mobilization & a political & social effervescence that lasted into the 1930's. This course will introduce students to the different ways that historians have sought to understand the formation of the post-revolutionary regime from the 1920's to the 1950's.
T.Rath
M 7:30-10:00pm

SO III
Hall 107
 
 
H340A011.0Atomic America

TOPIC: This course examines the American encounter with the Atom. Beginning with the 1945 test of the first atomic weapon in the New Mexican desert and ending with recent fears of a "dirty bomb" attack on urban centers, students will explore a number of events key to understanding nuclear power and American society.
R.Edgington
F 1:30-4:00

SO I
Hall 107
 
 
H341A011.0North American Borderlands
Sophomore standing or consent of the instructor.

TOPIC: This course will explore different cases of North American borderlands (Canada-US and Mexico-US) in order to compare and contrast the different historical dynamics that create and sustain borderland spaces and their contingent communities as well as those factors that eroded them. Though the course will emphasize early American borderland histories, it will include modern cases also.
B.Saler
Th 1:30-4:00

SO I
Hall 201
 
 
H343A011.0Black Paris - Art & Ideology in a Modernist Diaspora, 1925-1975
Sophomore standing or consent.
P.Jefferson
T 1:30-4:00

SO III
Hall 201
 
 
H400A011.0Senior Thesis Seminar
B.Saler
T 7:30pm-10:00pm

SO
Hall 201
 
 
H400A021.0Senior Thesis Seminar
A.Kitroeff
T 7:30pm-10:00pm

SO
Hall 112
 
 
H400A031.0Senior Thesis Seminar
P.Smith
T 7:30pm-10:00pm

SO
Hall 107
 
 
H480B041.0Independent Study
Consent of the instructor.
J.Krippner


SO