Consider taking a History course this Winter 2022! If you’re working on General Education and/or Areas of Knowledge requirements, History or Social Studies teaching endorsements requirements, History minor (or possible major) requirements, or just want to explore History more, the below History courses are some great options. We’re also including the full list of History courses for this Winter 2022 attached to this email.
HSTAFM 163 The Modern Middle East
TTh 12:30pm – 2:20pm (with Friday quiz/discussion section)
SLN: 15583
Instructor: Prof. Arbella Bet-Shlimon
This course provides an introduction the politics, society, and culture of the Middle East since the 19th century and through the present. It aims to foster an understanding of imperial power and anti-imperialism, ethnicity and sectarianism, religious and secular sociopolitical movements, authoritarianism, and the transformations wrought by modernity and economic development.
In this course, we will examine all of these themes through materials selected from history, primary source texts, fiction in translation, journalism, and visual sources. Discussions of all major Middle Eastern countries will be interwoven into the lectures as thematically appropriate, while the readings focus primarily on the polities in the political and geographical core of the Middle East: Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Iraq, the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Turkey, and Iran. The knowledge gained in this course is applicable in various academic and career fields related to the humanities and social sciences far beyond the boundaries of Middle Eastern studies.
- I&S credits and DIV credits
- satisfies credits for the Middle East Studies minor: https://jsis.washington.edu/programs/undergraduate/middle-east-studies/
HSTCMP 249 Introduction to Labor Studies
MW 10:00am – 11:20am (with Friday quiz/discussion section)
SLN: 15611
Instructor: Prof. Jacob Grumbach
This interdisciplinary course focuses on work and workers, with particular attention to the way politics, law, and collective action shape how work is performed and compensated. The focus is primarily on the United States, but some attention is also given to conditions in other countries. The course looks broadly at factors that shape worker compensation, autonomy, and wellbeing. The course looks at worker struggles to gain power and influence conditions in the workplace and society. The class offers perspectives on the formation, internal organization, and influence of worker organizations in different industries, national settings, and historical periods.
The class considers working conditions in today’s world of globalization and precarious employment. The course puts current conditions in historical perspective by considering changes over time in technology and labor processes; international political economy; the racial, gender, and skill composition of the labor force; state repression and state tolerance of collective action; and employer opposition to unions and workers' rights. The course concludes by looking at some current efforts to resist unfair working conditions and assert worker voice in the workplace.
- I&S credits
- satisfies the Foundations requirement for the Labor Studies minor: https://labor.washington.edu/course-requirements#requirements
HSTEU 234 History of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
TTH 10:30am – 12:20pm
SLN: 15623
Instructor: Prof. Laurie Marhoefer
This course introduces students to the social, political, and cultural history of Germany leading to and during the National Socialist era from 1933—1945 (from the Weimar Republic, through the rise of the Nazis and creation of the Nazi state and society, to war and genocide. The course will include a transnational examination of the Holocaust (especially Eastern Europe); memory and history after 1945; perspectives of outsiders in Nazi Germany, including Jews, Afro-Germans, gay men, communists; and examination of debates in historiography of the Holocaust. Through the lens of German social history, we will study the rise of fascism and genocide, and how the German case can inform other historical studies.
- I&S credits and DIV credits
- satisfies credits for the Jewish Studies major/minor: https://jsis.washington.edu/programs/undergraduate/jewish-studies/#ApprovedElectives
HSTAA 105 The People of the United States
MWF 12:30pm – 1:20pm (with Friday quiz/discussion section)
SLN: 15558
Instructor: Prof. James Gregory
This course explores the history of American diversity. Covering five centuries, it examines the sequences of immigration and conquest that eventually made the United States one of the most ethnically and racially complicated societies on earth. The consequences of diversity are another theme of the course. We will discuss both the contributions of various peoples and the conflicts between them, paying special attention to the historical construction of race and ethnicity and the changing understandings of American citizenship. "What is an American?" each generation has asked, usually answering in terms that are new to their era.
- I&S credits, DIV credits, and W credits (optional linked writing course (register for ENGL 198 E) for additional C or W credits)
- satisfies the Foundations category for the Diversity minor: https://divminor.washington.edu/minor-requirements
Please don’t hesitate to reach out to History academic advising at histadv@uw.edu with any questions! You might be closer to completing a History minor than you think: https://history.washington.edu/minors.
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