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2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Courses
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Academic departments and programs are generally listed in alphabetical order. All courses are listed under the department or program in which they are offered. Courses which are cross-listed will appear in more than one place.
Course Designations
Courses of instruction are designated by a system of four-digit numbers within each department. The first digit in the number indicates the class standing that a student must attain to be eligible for the course. To interpret the numbering system, students need to know that:
- Courses generally for freshmen are numbered in the series beginning 1000. Freshmen may not register for any course numbered 2000 or above, except by placement or with the permission of the instructor. Similarly, sophomores may not register for courses numbered 3000 or above, or juniors 4000 or above, with exceptions permitted only by the instructor.
- Cross-listed courses are courses appropriate to more than one department or area.
- The number of credit hours per course is indicated below the course title. Courses which may be taken for variable credit (applied music lessons, independent studies, internships, etc.) or which can be repeated for credit are so indicated.
- Prerequisites for each course are so indicated following the description.
- Special Topics, Internships, and Independent Studies courses are listed with numbers separated by semicolons. These courses may be taken in any order.
- The (FR) designation after a number indicates that the course is offered only as a first-year seminar.
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HIS 1112 - 20th Century World: A Global Perspective Credits: 4
This course will investigate the major political, economic, social, and cultural developments of the twentieth century. It is designed as a study of world history, taking account of events on all continents. Broad topics include the world wars and their impact, European imperialism and decolonization, the world’s entanglement in superpower rivalry during the Cold War, and the challenges to US power since the collapse of Soviet Communism in 1991. Within this broad framework the course will address the Arab-Israeli conflict, the rise and fall of Apartheid in South Africa, the Indochina Wars, the struggle between Nationalists and Communists in China, and authoritarianism and the quest for democratic government in Latin America. The course will also consider the impact of technological innovation and economic globalization in recent decades.
McDaniel Plan: International Nonwestern
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HIS 1113 - Personal Trauma and the Record Credits: 2
Through reading and analyzing various types of ego documents (testimonies, confessions, memoirs and autobiographies), we will explore what kind of historical sources ego documents are. Employing literary, psychological, linguistic, and historical methods as well as exploring the historical and social historical contexts of the documents, we will assess how reliable the narratives are and specify what sort of connections exist between individual, historical and social historical narratives. Ego documents that have been treated with condescension by scholars are the subjects of heated debates recently, as their reliability and usefulness for historical research are often questioned. As an interdisciplinary course that requires no previous knowledge of the disciplines involved, it also provides a methodological basis for future interdisciplinary research.
This course is offered at the Budapest campus.
McDaniel Plan: January Term
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HIS 1115 - Introduction to Public History Credits: 4
From monuments and battlefields, to museums and historic houses, from commemorations and celebrations, to archives and websites, this course blends theory and experience to offer an overview of the practical aspects and professional opportunities of public history. Students will learn to think critically about the public presentation of history while being introduced to the theories and practices of public history. Course includes trips to area public history sites, which may include Gettysburg, Baltimore, and Washington, DC.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding; Experiential
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HIS 1121 - Roots of Taiwanese Cuisine Credits: 2
Why does Taiwan produce black sugar? What are the origins of bubble tea? Why have Taiwanese only now begun eating beef, but don’t often drink milk? This Pacific island hosts a diverse range of local flavors . In this two-week course, students will travel around Taiwan, sampling local cuisine, experiencing culture, and exploring history. We will investigate how the island’s unique ecology, geography, and global position has produced modern Taiwan’s food culture. Students will interview and learn from producers, consumers, and local businesses in order to understand the factors that shape modern attitudes towards food in Taiwan.
McDaniel Plan: Experiential
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HIS 1134 - Understanding Europe I Credits: 4
This interdisciplinary course offers a comparative study of Europe’s history, culture, heritage, political and economic development. Attention is focused on the 20th century: the two World Wars, the division of Europe after 1945, integration in the West, Soviet-type political and economic systems in East-Central Europe; the disintegration of the Communist Bloc and the Soviet Union; new tension and crises; renewed hopes for a unified Europe; European institutions and organizations; Europe’s role in world affairs.
(offered at the Budapest Campus only)
Two-semester course.
McDaniel Plan: International Western; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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HIS 1135 - Understanding Europe II Credits: 4
This interdisciplinary course offers a comparative study of Europe’s history, culture, heritage, political and economic development. Attention is focused on the 20th century: the two World Wars, the division of Europe after 1945, integration in the West, Soviet-type political and economic systems in East-Central Europe; the disintegration of the Communist Bloc and the Soviet Union; new tension and crises; renewed hopes for a unified Europe; European institutions and organizations; Europe’s role in world affairs.
(offered at the Budapest Campus only)
Two-semester course.
McDaniel Plan: International Western; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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HIS 1141 - Classical Jiangnan in China Credits: 2.00
Jiangnan, which means “the south of Yangzi River,” is a cultural and economic region slightly smaller in size than modern France. Centered around today’s Shanghai, Jiangnan by all accounts was/is the most prosperous and most highly urbanized region in China, featuring distinctive gardens, arts, and landscape. A historian compared the region to England because since the eighteenth century both have become highly developed economic regions and formed distinctive regional cultures on both sides of Eurasia. We will travel to the region and view gardens, folk arts (e.g. iron pictures), art workshops/markets, and mountains/rivers/lakes, all of which feature the regional culture and history. Locations to be included are Shanghai, Zhouzhuang, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Zhenjiang, Wuhu, Hefei, Huizhou, etc. Students will keep daily journals and amass a portfolio of Jiangnan-based photos and journals the local Jiangnan culture. These journals and photos will result in a campus-wide show.
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HIS 1149 - Hydraulic China: Water, Culture & Society Credits: 2
Why has the Grand Canal been maintained for thousands of years? What materials are used to construct seawalls? How have intertwined sluicegate-and-dam irrigation systems molded and remolded local terrains? Water is the source of life. Due to unequal distribution of water resources, China has developed into a hydraulic society. The hydraulic projects such as the Grand Canal, coastal seawalls and irrigation systems maintain and control Chinese economy and society. These large-scale water projects have carved China’s environment, shaped local cultural landscapes and social terrains and formed Chinese views on the dynamic relations between water and humans. In this course, students will travel to the regions along the Grand Canal to explore environmental, political and cultural aspects of China’s hydraulic society. We will visit ancient canal sites (Beijing and Zhenjiang), explore existing sluicegate-and-dam systems (Hangzhou, Wuhu, and Shanghai) and examine seawalls and tidal bores (Haining) to understand our complete
dependence on water and political/social debates over hydraulic projects in China.
McDaniel Plan: January Term
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HIS 1165 - Special Topics in History Credits: 4
The study of a selected topic in the discipline. Different topics are chosen for each offering, based on students’ interests and needs.
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HIS 1185 - America and the Vietnam War Credits: 4
The Vietnam War is a complicated part of modern American history. In this class students will examine the War, its impact on American popular culture, and the way historians have tried to understand and contextualize the War. Using a variety of sources, including books, government documents, and popular films, students will gain a greater understanding of this important period in American history.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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HIS 1191 - Gender and Society in Ancient Greece Credits: 4
A study of gender relations and the cultural roles assigned to men and women in the earliest western sources, from the epic society of Homer to the period of the Hellenistic monarchies. Topics will include myth and cult, family law, economy and slavery, medicine, sport, concepts of misogyny, sexuality, and male honor codes. Comparative evidence from ancient and modern Mediterranean societies will also be examined.
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HIS 2101 - Cold War as Global Conflict Credits: 4
Although the Cold War formally ended twenty-five years ago its repercussions can still be felt in United States relations with Russia, in the partial warming of ties between the US and Cuba, and in the national security challenge posed by North Korea. The Cold War can also be linked to “failed states” in the Middle East and elsewhere which are a major concern for US foreign policy today. This course will trace the origins and conduct of US-Soviet or “East-West” rivalry after World War II. It will include the division of Europe in its political, economic, military, and cultural aspects. It will consider mutual perceptions and fears that informed both US and Soviet foreign policies. Last but not least, this course will encompass the impact of the Cold War on a global scale, taking account of the ways that US-Soviet rivalry intersected with the
European retreat from empire in Asia and Africa, helping to shape anti-colonial struggles and post-colonial “nation-building.”
McDaniel Plan: International Nonwestern
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HIS 2104 - Illusory Frontiers Credits: 4
After a cursory survey of the origins of the geographic and historical-political concept of Europe, this course gives an introduction to some of the most important definitions of European regions from the 16th century on. This “symbolic geography” has been shaped by numerous political developments leading to the immediate antecedents of our present. They include the key issues of 19th century international politics (as the gradual decline of the Ottoman-Turkish Empire and the emergence of the Balkan national states, the unification of Germany and Italy, the restructuring of the great power alliances after the dualistic reorganization of the Habsburg Empire in 1867), followed by dramas of 20th century: the dismemberment of the Habsburg Monarchy, the two world wars, the cold war and the recent process of European integration. These processes are studied from the perspective of shifting political, cultural and mental borders in the lands between Germany and Russia, stretching from the River Elbe to the Eastern Carpathians.
Offered at Budapest Campus.
McDaniel Plan: International
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HIS 2105 - Holocaust and Memory Credits: 4
The course aims to interrogate the emerging field created by the intersection of Jewish Studies and Memory to study the literary and artistic representation of the Holocaust. The course covers the topics of how Memory of Holocaust is inscribed, framed mediated and performed in Europe and especially in Hungary. The course also consists of field trips to the Jewish monuments of Hungary.
McDaniel Plan: Multicultual European, Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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HIS 2106 - Holocaust in Film and Literature Credits: 4
The German philosopher Theodor Adorno famously wrote that “to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric,” by which he meant that no representation was possible of such a horrific human event. And yet, there has been a relentless outpouring of film, memoirs, historical fiction and, even, poetry itself that deals directly with the Holocaust and some of which, such as the works of Italian survivor Primo Levi or Steven Spielberg’s film “Schindler’s List,” has become practically canonical. This course examines a wide range of both filmic and literary efforts to grapple with the Nazi Holocaust with a view to the larger question of the problem of representing history that seems to defy all explanation.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding; Textual Analysis
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HIS 2107 - Modern British History Credits: 4
Great Britain led the world into the modern era and has seen major changes at home and abroad during the past two centuries. This course will look into key issues of economic transformation, political reform, and social and cultural change. Topics include the industrial revolution and its impact, Victorian society and culture, imperialism and decolonization, and the origins and rise of the welfare state. The question of Ireland, Britain’s experiences in the world wars, its shifting international status, migration and multiculturalism, the role of the monarchy, and recent political trends such as the challenge of Scottish nationalism and relations with the European Union will also be addressed.
McDaniel Plan: International
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HIS 2109 - British Empire and World Credits: 4
Great Britain built the largest of the European overseas empires. This course follows both a chronological and thematic approach to the history of this empire. Students will consider the causes of imperial expansion, varying conceptions of empire and the imperial mission, diverse forms of imperial rule, the impact of empire on indigenous societies and on Britain itself, independence struggles, and decolonization. Within a broad geographic scope, special attention will be placed on British India and Africa.
McDaniel Plan: International Non-western
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HIS 2202 - Formation of Western Europe Credits: 4
An introduction to the diverse peoples and societies that created what is conventionally termed “Western Civilization.” The course focuses on the formative period of that tradition, and provides a firm chronological basis for understanding the interaction, evolution, and achievement of these peoples and societies in the ancient, medieval, and early modern periods.
McDaniel Plan: International Western.
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HIS 2203 - Western Civ: 1700 to the Present Credits: 4
Reflection on and analysis of Western traditions organized thematically: the Age of Absolutism; the Enlightenment;the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic period; the liberal, national, and industrial forces of the 19th century; imperialism and the issue of power and domination, the political and moral crises of the 20th century.
Prerequisites HIS-1105
McDaniel Plan: International and Social, Cultural, Historical
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HIS 2205 - Ancient Greece Credits: 4
A history of the Greek world from the archaic to the Hellenistic period. Topics include the growth of the polis and problems of early democracy; the religious, social, and cultural structures of classical Athens and Sparta; and Alexander the Great and the creation of Hellenism. Readings will be from literature and drama, rhetoric, and history, with emphasis on Herodotus and Thucydides.
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HIS 2206 - Republican Rome Credits: 4
A survey of Roman history from the beginnings to the death of Augustus, the first emperor. Discussion will focus on sources from myth, history, epigraphy, and archaeology. Historians include Livy, Polybius, Plutarch, Sallust, and Cicero.
McDaniel Plan: International
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HIS 2207 - Archaeology of Greece Credits: 4
Introduction to the history of classical archaeology and to the current theories and methods of the discipline through study of archaeological sites and material remains from the Bronze Age to the fourth century B.C.E. The course also includes examination of architecture, painting, and sculpture in their original private, civic, and religious context.
Cross-listed with Art History 2207.
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HIS 2208 - Roman Women Credits: 4
A study of Roman women within the evolving moral, religious, familial (patriarchal), political, and economic structures of the Roman world. Emphasis will be on recent methodological approaches to the study of ancient women through analysis of sources that include historians, legal and medical texts, literature, and art.
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HIS 2210 - Gender and Society in Early Europe Credits: 4.00
A study of the roles and experiences of women vis-à-vis men in early Europe from antiquity through the Middle Ages and into the Early Modern period. Readings include primary documents and secondary works on gender theory, philosophy, medicine, religion and law as well as economy and labor, sexuality and marriage, motherhood and the body, and issues of race and status. By the end of the semester students should understand what the difficult and ongoing project to find women’s voices and create a space for women in the historical record has accomplished to date. They should be aware that many of the basic issues and problems that women faced in the past are still faced today. Throughout the semester examples from modern media will illustrate the contemporary status of many age-old gender issues.
McDaniel Plan: International Western, Textual Analysis
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HIS 2213 - The High Middle Ages Credits: 4
An examination of the distinctive civilization of Western Europe during the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries. Emphasis will be on the rise of monarchies and urban economies, social and familial practices, and intellectual and cultural achievements. The course is based largely on primary source readings from autobiographies, chronicles, courtly literature, and legal documents.
McDaniel Plan: International Western; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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HIS 2214 - Early Modern Europe Credits: 4
An examination of the transformation of Western Europe from the 14th through the 16th centuries. Topics include the 14th-century crash, humanism and the Renaissance in Italy, the rise of the Atlantic economies, and reformation movements.
McDaniel Plan: International
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HIS 2215 - Medieval England Credits: 4
The evolution of the English monarchy and society in the Anglo-Saxon, Norman, and Plantagenet periods. Readings include primary sources on the social and constitutional development of England to 1485.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding.
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HIS 2219 - 19th-Century Europe: Age of Anxiety Credits: 4
This is a survey of nineteenth-century European history, a period sometimes characterized as the age of “isms” for the numerous movements and ideologies it spawned. As the Enlightenment and revolutionary era gave way to Romanticism, liberalism, and nationalism, the Industrial Revolution, with its breakthroughs in technology and accompanying social dislocation, helped pave the way for Victorianism, socialism, feminism, and the “new nationalism” often characterized by xenophobia and anti-Semitism. Rapid social, political, cultural, and scientific change was so characteristic of the century that this so-called “Age of Progress” was also, in many respects, one of great anxiety. Evaluating how nineteenth-century Europeans adapted to their changing world will be the main focus of this course.
McDaniel Plan: International Western; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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HIS 2220 - 20th-Century Europe Credits: 4
In the early twenty-first century, historians must grapple with how to define the tumultuous and in many ways tragic period that preceded. Worldwide depression, two world wars, Cold War, communism, totalitarianism, Holocaust, collectivization, decolonization—these singular events have greatly altered the image of a prosperous and progressive Europe that took hold in the previous century. In this wide-ranging course, which will consider cultural, social, economic, and political trends in Europe from the First World War to the present, we will attempt to understand the various paths that Europe and individual European nations have taken, their global and human implications, and the place of Europe in the world today.
McDaniel Plan: International Western; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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HIS 2222 - Gender and Society in America, Past and Present Credits: 4
An examination of women’s experiences in American society with special emphasis on attitudes toward sex, the family, the workplace, and the political arena in order to explore the interaction between context and ideology in the process of social change.
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HIS 2224 - Becoming American: Topics in American History Credits: 4
An examination of significant cultural, political, and social themes in the history of the United States from 1600 to 1866. Emphasis is placed upon critical reading and written analysis of primary and secondary sources.
McDaniel Plan: Multicultural; Social Cultural and Historical Understanding.
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HIS 2225 - Colonial America, 1607–1763 Credits: 4
An in-depth study of early American culture and history, utilizing primary and secondary sources, focusing on the 17th and 18th centuries. Topics will include social structure, labor systems, family life, political culture, and issues of race and ethnicity.
McDaniel Plan: Multicultural; Social Cultural and Historical Understanding.
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HIS 2226 - Revolutionary America and the New Nation, 1763–1840 Credits: 4
An examination of the political, social, and economic issues that led to the American Revolution and that shaped the United States’ early growth and development as an independent nation. Special attention will be given to issues of race and gender, industrialization and urbanization, and political culture.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding.
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HIS 2229 - U.S. History in the Cold War Era, 1945-1991 Credits: 4
A survey of some of the main currents in United States history since the end of the Second World War. Topics include: the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement, the countercultural movement, and the Post-Cold War Era.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding.
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HIS 2231 - Traditional East Asia Credits: 4
Survey of the history of China, Korea, and Japan, from mythical times to 1600. Although this survey outlines the individual histories of China, Korea, and Japan, it emphasizes the cultural continuities and historical interactions that have made “East Asia” a coherent cultural region: shamanism, writing systems, rituals of kingship, Buddhism, Confucianism, literature and visual arts, technological development, travel, commerce, and war.
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HIS 2232 - Modern East Asia Credits: 4
Survey of East Asian history from 1600 to the present. This course maps the intersections and divergences in the histories of China, Korea, and Japan during the past four hundred years, from the Japanese invasion of Korea in 1592, the global economic crisis in the seventeenth century, and the Chinese domination of the world market in the eighteenth century, to the violent encroachment on East Asia by imperialist powers in the nineteenth century, the reforms and revolutions of the turn of the twentieth century, the massive destruction during the Second World War, and the political and economic developments of recent decades.
McDaniel Plan: International Nonwestern.
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HIS 2233 - Women in U.S. History Credits: 4
This course surveys the ways in which women have influenced United States history and how their stories and experiences have been omitted from the mainstream telling of the national history.
McDaniel Plan: Multicultural; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding.
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HIS 2234 - Evolution of American Freedom Credits: 4
Drawing on primary documents and recent scholarship, this course traces the evolution of the concept of Freedom in the United States. How was it defined, and how has the concept changed?
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding.
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HIS 2235 - U.S. History in the Progressive Era, 1890-1920 Credits: 4
An exploration of one of the more controversial periods in U.S. history: the course will consider the meaning of progressivism and will examine the social, political, and cultural forces acting upon the country during this period.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding.
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HIS 2236 - Black America and the Civil Rights Era, 1865-1968 Credits: 4
This course examines the long view of the civil rights era, beginning with Reconstruction in the aftermath of the Civil War and continuing on to the climactic events of the 1960s.
McDaniel Plan: Multicultural; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding.
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HIS 2237 - Religion and Society in China Credits: 4
This course will introduce some of the basic concepts and changing practices of religion at important moments in Chinese imperial history prior to the collapse of the Qing dynasty in 1911. After a brief introduction to the diversity of religions of China (from Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism and popular religions to the introduction of Islam and Christianity), the course will focus on the impact of religions on the daily lives of ordinary people. Readings will include primary sources-religious tracts, biographies of religious figures, and works of fiction in which religion plays a central role. Lectures will provide a critical framework through which students will interpret these materials and learn about the liveliness of the practices of Chinese religions.
McDaniel Plan: International Nonwestern, Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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HIS 2238 - U.S. Intellectual Tradition Credits: 4.00
This course will examine the important ideas that have helped to define the United States. From the first waves of European immigration to the present day we will examine the changing meanings of such ideas as liberty, freedom, and equality, as well as the concepts of citizenship, patriotism, and what it means to be an American at different times in our history.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding and Textual Analysis
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HIS 2240 - Modern China in Film Credits: 4.00
McDaniel Plan: International Nonwestern, Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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HIS 2241 - Fathoming Evil: Genocide Credits: 4.0
An exploration of genocide—its origins, manifestations, outside responses, consequences, and legacies—in Western and non-Western cultures/societies, including instances in Europe (WWII and Soviet collectivization), Armenia/Turkey, Cambodia (Southeast Asia), and Rwanda (Africa). Students will read about the lives of genocide survivors, delve into local cultures, and examine the responses of the United States.
McDaniel Plan: International, Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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HIS 2242 - Beyond 1492: Indian Encounters Credits: 4
Ever since Christopher Columbus stumbled upon the Americas, Europeans and Native Americans have wondered what to make of each other. This course will seek to examine the range of contacts between Indians and Europeans with a particular emphasis on eastern North America through the era of removal. We will examine a range of first-hand and scholarly sources offering a glimpse of religious encounters, shifts in trade, military invasions, ecological transformations, legal disputes, and diplomatic alliances.
McDaniel Plan: Multicultural
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HIS 2243 - Empires and Nations in Eastern Europe Credits: 4
Eastern Europe, roughly situated between Russia and Germany, saw itself made and remade several times over the course of the last century while serving as a testing ground for radical political
ideologies. This course will address the emergence of modern nations in this region vulnerable to invasions and annexations by its more powerful neighbors. One focus will be on the collapse of multiethnic empires during World War I and the rise of nation states which grappled with diverse populations of their own. A second focus will be on Nazi empire-building, genocide, and incidents of ethnic cleansing during and shortly after World War II. A third focus will be on the Soviet Union’s westward territorial expansion and domination of Eastern Europe during the Cold War. We will also consider developments since the collapse of Communism, including European integration and the resurgence of nationalism.
McDaniel Plan: International
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HIS 2244 - American Dreams in China Credits: 4
The so-called “American Dream” has never been confined within the shores of America itself. Indeed, people in other lands have long had their own visions of America, its promises, and its opportunities. This course specifically examines how people in China have envisioned America and the multiple meanings of America. What was the “American Dream” in China? How and why and how did American dreams thrive in China in the past century? What does it teach about US-Chinese relations? Using the concept of the American Dream as a starting point, students will explore the complex relationship between China and the United States in the last two centuries (1789-2017). By tracing the exchanges of ideas, objects, and beliefs in China and America, we will explore economic, social, and political
interaction between two countries from a historical perspective and approach.
McDaniel Plan: International Non-Western and Textual Analysis
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HIS 2245 - Russia Through Film Credits: 4
In this course students will use film as a source for the study of Russian and Soviet history and culture. They will see how movies as a mass medium saw the intersection of politics, ideology, art, and entertainment. The course will complement relevant readings with the viewing of film segments by major directors such as Sergei Eisenstein (1920s-40s) and Andrei Tarkovsky (1960s-80s). Students will analyze and discuss these films in relation to their broader political and cultural contexts. Major periods include the post-revolutionary decade of the 1920s, the Stalin and post-Stalin eras, the late 1980s period of reforms, and the post-Soviet 1990s.
McDaniel Plan: International
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HIS 2246 - Land of the Unfree Credits: 4
Despite celebrating the “Land of the Free,” Americans have frequently held one another in various forms of bondage. This course is a whirlwind tour of the hidden side of American history, in which we examine how slavery, indentured servants, apprentices, chain gangs, wage slaves, prostitutes, debtors, sailors, prisoners, and the institutionalized insane all complicate our narrative of freedom. We also take a comparative approach, examining practices and precedents in Africa, Europe, and among American Indians. Students engage firsthand with letters, speeches, diaries, artwork, and oral history along with scholarly works.
McDaniel Plan: Multicultural
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HIS 2247 - The Nuclear Age Credits: 4
During the second half of the twentieth century, a new techno scientific phenomenon—the advent of nuclear energy and weapons—marked the geopolitics, environment, and culture of the United States and the world. This course examines the history of today’s nuclear infrastructure, including its origins, its geopolitical and commercial configurations, its environmental consequences, and its global social and cultural significance. It considers how historical analysis of these developments has changed dramatically over time, as new sources become available and new perspectives emerge. Subjects of particular attention include the discovery of nuclear fission, the Manhattan Project, and the origins of the nuclear world, the Cold War nuclear arms race, the commercialization of nuclear power plants, the international competition to sell them, and the national and transnational movements to stop them, the nature and environmental consequences of the nuclear fuel cycle, the causes and effects of nuclear accidents and the evaluation and management of nuclear risk, and post-Cold War nuclear proliferation as well as the international non-proliferation regime.
The course is offered at the Budapest campus.
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HIS 2248 - Surviving Totalitarianism Credits: 4
One of the key issues of twentieth century European history concerns the possibilities of autonomous, independent decision making for individuals and the civil society in totalitarian systems. This course deals with theoretical aspects and case studies of this problem focusing on the Second World War and its immediate aftermath in the countries under shorter or longer control of Hitler’s and Stalin’s regimes. It analyzes various forms of collaboration, resistance and retribution. In addition to scholarly literature the course also uses fiction and films as sources.
This course is offered at the Budapest campus.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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HIS 2250 - Reconstruction Credits: 4.00
This course is focused on the moment in time when four million black slaves became American citizens, and the aftermath of their emancipation. We will examine the policies of the Reconstruction Era and the ideals behind them, as well as the actions that brought about the end of Reconstruction. We will also study what changes freedom brought to the African American community, their attempts at gaining equality, obtaining an education, creating their own communities, and the systematic repression of those efforts,
McDaniel Plan: Multicultural, Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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HIS 2265 - Special Topics in History Credits: 4
The study of a selected topic in the discipline. Different topics are chosen for each offering, based on students’ interests and needs.
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HIS 2267 - Spec Topics in History Modern Europe Credits: 4.00
The study of a selected topic in the discipline. Different topics are chosen for each offering, based on students’ interests and needs.
McDaniel Plan: Inernational and Social, Cultural and Histroical Understanding
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HIS 2269 - Special Topics in History Asia Credits: 4.00
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HIS 2295 - Internships in History Credits: 0-4
Supervised field experiences in appropriate settings, usually off-campus, designed to assist students in acquiring and using skills and knowledge of the discipline unique to the selected topic.
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HIS 2298 - Independent Studies in History Credits: 0-4
Directed study with permission of the Department.
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HIS 3302 - The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1840–1877 Credits: 4
An examination of political, social, and economic conflicts and change in mid 19th-century America that led to the Civil War. The course will also explore the impact of the war on American society and the process of national reunification.
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HIS 3305 - Seminar: Rome, The Early Empire Credits: 4
A seminar on Rome and its empire in the first two centuries of the modern era. Topics include the development of monarchy and the decline of old Roman values, the growth of early Christianity, and the spread and transformation of Roman culture and technology through contact with Europe and the Eastern Empire.
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HIS 3315 - Seminar: Early European Society Credits: 4
A seminar on the political, social, and familial life of the peoples who settled in Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. The course will consider the reasons for the collapse of the Empire as well as the ways in which the new peoples accommodated and preserved Mediterranean culture. Readings will be drawn from both primary sources and recent interpretive studies.
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HIS 3316 - Seminar: The Crusades Credits: 4
A seminar based on the close reading of eyewitness accounts of the crusades. The course will include discussion of recent interpretations of the crusades and their significance for Europe and the Mediterranean world.
McDaniel Plan: Textual Analysis
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HIS 3317 - Seminar: The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century Credits: 4
This seminar will examine the twelfth century as formative one for European culture in that the written word began to permeate every facet of life: government records, private letters, memoirs, autobiographies, epics, romances, and contracts were written down, often for the first time, creating creating a large and varied body of records depicting the thoughts and practices of twelfth-century people. We will examine these primary sources to consider how literate ways of thinking and doing transformed European culture as profoundly as the print revolution of the fifteenth century.
McDaniel Plan: Textual Analysis.
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HIS 3323 - Nationalism in Europe Credits: 4
Nationalism has proven to be a potent and enduring political force. This course will trace the development of nationalism in Europe since the Enlightenment and French Revolution. It takes both a conceptual and concrete historical approach. Students will consider the debate about origins, definitions, and varieties of nations and nationalism. They will also examine the historical settings in which national aspirations took shape as well as their impact. Topics include the rise of national movements in the nineteenth century, the unification of Italy and Germany, the role of governments in “nation-building,” links between nationalism, imperialism, racism, and anti-Semitism, and the rise of new nation states. Of particular concern will be the role of nationalism in reshaping societies during and after the two world wars. Population displacements, migration, and the status of ethnic and regional minorities will also be considered. Specific cases such as those of Scotland and Catalonia will be viewed in historical perspective. Apart from class readings, students will pursue research projects of their choosing related to particular countries, regions, or peoples.
McDaniel Plan: International
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HIS 3324 - Seminar: The American Revolution as a Social Movement Credits: 4
An exploration of the Revolutionary experience. Emphasis is on a study of class structure, military conflict, and social and political consequences both during and immediately after the Revolution through a study of primary and secondary source materials.
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HIS 3325 - Stalin Credits: 4
This course will examine one of the twentieth century’s most notorious figures, Joseph Stalin, and his leadership of the Soviet Union. It will be both a history of the Stalin era and a study of historians’ changing interpretations of Stalin’s rule. Students will consider various attempts to define and understand “Stalinism” and its place in Russian, European, and world history. They will address topics such the political terror of the 1930s, Stalin’s “revolution from above” and the economic transformation of his country, social change and the status of women, the Soviet Union as a multiethnic state, Stalin’s engagement in World War II, and the onset of the Cold War.
McDaniel Plan: International
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HIS 3327 - Seminar: Modern U.S. History Credits: 4.00
Readings and discussions of selected topics in Modern U.S. history drawing on primary and secondary sources, along with popular culture. The specific topic of the seminar will change from year to year but may include; citizenship, immigration, progressivism, the rise of the suburbs, the effect of the media on American society, etc.
Prerequisites/Co-requisites One four-credit 2000-level History course
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HIS 3328 - Seminar: African-American History Credits: 4
Readings and discussions of selected topics in African-American history drawing on primary and secondary sources, novels, and material culture. The specific topic the seminar will examine, such as slavery, racism, community and family, and black nationalism, will change each offering of the course. Students will engage in close reading of both primary and secondary source materials and write an original, in depth analysis on a topic of their choosing.
Prerequisites One 2000-level history course
McDaniel Plan: Multicultural; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding; Textual Analysis; Departmental Writing
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HIS 3331 - Gender and the Family in China Credits: 4
Examination of the changing constructions of gender and the shifting configurations of the family, from imperial times to the present. Primary sources (in translation) and secondary literature together convey how changing notions of kinship, property, ritual, space, and the body have informed notions of gender in China, from the traditional courtyard house to the modern high-rise apartment.
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HIS 3332 - China’s Troubled Waters Credits: 4.00
Two conflicting images dominate our views of China. One is of a people engaged in harmonious relationships with nature. Another is of overpopulation, resource depletion, and environmental degradation. This course will examine Chinese relations with nature through its history of dams great and small, canals, rerouted rivers, and irrigation projects. We will examine how such water-control projects affected Chinese local societies from the Song dynasty through today. We will explore which regions, which groups (ethnic, gender, class), and which hydraulic projects have been the winners and losers in different eras. From there, we will further examine continuity and ruptures in state policies, political ideology, and institutional politics behind hydraulic projects in their historical contexts. Finally, we will examine crucial turning points in the history of water control in China and see how past historical visions live on in the present.
McDaniel Plan: International Nonwestern, Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding, Textual Analysis
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HIS 3365 - Special Topics in History Credits: 4
The study of a selected topic in the discipline. Different topics are chosen for each offering, based on students’ interests and needs.
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HIS 3369 - Special Topics History Credits: 4.00
The study of a selected topic in the discipline. Different topics are chosen for each offering, based on students’ interests and needs.
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HIS 3395 - Internships in History Credits: 0-4
Supervised field experiences in appropriate settings, usually off-campus, designed to assist students in acquiring and using skills and knowledge of the discipline unique to the selected topic.
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HIS 3398 - Independent Studies in History Credits: 0-4
Directed study with permission of the Department.
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HIS 4465 - Special Topics in History Credits: 4
The study of a selected topic in the discipline. Different topics are chosen for each offering, based on students’ interests and needs.
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HIS 4492 - History Colloquium Credits: 4
The History capstone, taken in the fall of the senior year, is a semester-long seminar in which students conduct original and independent research on a topic approved by the instructor, and produce a journal-length paper that meets the standards of the History profession. At the end of the semester they defend their research orally before the faculty of the History Department.
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HIS 4495 - Internships in History Credits: 0-4
Supervised field experiences in appropriate settings, usually off-campus, designed to assist students in acquiring and using skills and knowledge of the discipline unique to the selected topic.
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HIS 4498 - Independent Studies in History Credits: 0-4
Directed study with permission of the Department.
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HON 1200 - Honors: My Design Credits: 2
In keeping with the mission of McDaniel’s Honors Program, this course will introduce first year students to the Honors Program by focusing on the themes of personal change and transformation: we will address some of the unique challenges faced by high achieving students and how to deal with those challenges, introduce goal setting and personal development planning tools, help students identify their strengths and areas for growth, help students to better understand the nature of the liberal arts, and foster their own identities as members of the honors community.
Enrollment for Honors Program Participants
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HON 2200 - Honors: My Career Credits: 2
This course provides a connective bridge between the first year Honors experience, goal setting and development planning, and the practical application of those skills. This course will reinforce what was learned in the first year program while pushing students further towards mastery of vital professional skills tailored specifically for Honors students, including: articulating the value of the liberal arts, composing resumes and cover letters, networking with alumni, and researching jobs or other opportunities.
Prerequisites HON-1200
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HON 2201 - Great Works Credits: 4.00
Reading and comparative analysis of major works of literature from a range of genres, cultures and national literatures, from antiquity to the modern period. Emphasis on the nature of literary tradition, intertextuality, and the relations between texts across history and culture. Texts include works by authors such as Homer, Sappho, Dante, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Goethe, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, and Joyce. Each section will cover the chronological period to be determined by the professor.
Open to first-year honors program students only.
McDaniel Plan: International Western, Textual Analysis
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HON 2265 - Special Topics Credits: 1.0 - 4.0
Food on the Table: Contemporary Local and Global Food Issues (description for 2015-2016 academic year)
This course will provide students with a sociological and social entrepreneurial understanding of food systems (production, distribution and consumption) of food so as to enable them understand “why we eat the way we do.” The class will explore two broad themes: (1) food markets and agricultural globalization in terms of: the distributive networks through
which food travels from the farm to the table; the relationships between markets, states, and society in their historical and contemporary forms; global labor markets, international
agribusiness, food biotechnology and food global marketing. (2) food policy through a critical examination of: i) current economic, social, demographic, environmental, and ethical trends that affect the politics of food provisioning; food justice and sustainability; ii) the role of policy and planning in shaping uneven landscapes of contemporary consumption and production, where obesity exists alongside pervasive hunger, “gourmet ghettos” can be found next door to “food deserts,” and where agricultural and food service workers are among the most likely to go hungry.
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HON 2304 - Don Quixote Credits: 4.00
An analysis of Don Quixote with emphasis on the text as a product of the seventeenth-century zeitgeist and as a timeless novel.
McDaniel Plan: International, Textual Analysis
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HON 3200 - Honors Journal Club Credits: 2
This course is designed to be interdisciplinary and highly challenging, giving students a unique academic experience. Students will research articles in academic journals related to their primary field of study, they will meet with faculty from their field to create an annotated bibliography of articles and prepare for their presentation. Then each student will present to a small group of students from different disciplines within the class leading a discussion on why the article was chosen, what makes it representative of the epistemology of the field, and how scholars in the field communicate with one another. Part of each presentation will be answering the question, “what does it mean to think like a _______?” with the blank being the students field of study.
Enrollment for Honors Program Participants
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HON 4491 - Honors Senior Colloquium Credits: 2.00
Senior honors students will discuss and formally present their College Scholars Projects to their classmates, fellow honors students over the course of the semester. Course texts will be selected by the students as a means of contextualizing and explaining their project design and epistemology to others. Students may be asked to put together short videos highlighting the key aspects of their projects to be posted on the Honors Program website or to organize meetings and present their projects to underclassmen in the Honors Program outside the course meeting times.
Note: Grading method is Credit/Fail.
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HUN 1101 - Elementary Hungarian Credits: 4
The acquisition of oral/aural skills through intensive exposure to Hungarian used both as the medium of communication and the object of study. It enables students to express their daily experiences accurately in spoken and written Hungarian, and to understand communications of a moderate level of difficulty.
(offered only on the Budapest Campus)
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HUN 1102 - Elementary Hungarian Credits: 4
The acquisition of oral/aural skills through intensive exposure to Hungarian used both as the medium of communication and the object of study. It enables students to express their daily experiences accurately in spoken and written Hungarian, and to understand communications of a moderate level of difficulty.
(offered only on the Budapest Campus)
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IDS 1106 - You Are What You Eat Credits: 4.0
Develop your “foodie” identity by blogging and vlogging about food. Experience entrepreneurship in action by partnering with local entrepreneurs to explore the farm-to-table process, particularly in terms of sustainability, education, and accessibility. In this course, we’ll explore the growing literature and discourse surrounding local and organic food movements and put this knowledge to action in our blogs, vlogs, and partnerships. We’ll create cookbooks that address a variety of issues surrounding how to produce local food sustainably and provide fair access to “good” food sources for members of the community who, traditionally, do not have such access. Finally, we’ll experience entrepreneurship in action by working with constituents to develop and enact a plan in terms of producing, providing, and educating people about food (e.g. food selection and preparation). After learning about the entrepreneurs’ visions, we will assist the constituents in generating resources for their venture (i.e. students might create a crowdfunded marketing campaign or write a grant for resources to develop their plans).
McDaniel Plan: Creative Expression
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IDS 1107 - Women in Western Culture Credits: 4
A two-semester interdisciplinary study of the status and role of women in the western world. The first semester covers the period from preclassical to the French Revolution. The second semester covers the period from the French Revolution to the present.
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IDS 1108 - Women in Western Culture Credits: 4
A two-semester interdisciplinary study of the status and role of women in the western world. The first semester covers the period from preclassical to the French Revolution. The second semester covers the period from the French Revolution to the present.
McDaniel Plan: International Western, Multicultural, Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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IDS 1132 - The Forest Online I Credits: 1
Seminar discussing texts introducing conservation and sustainable development in Latin America from historical, cultural, and environmental perspectives. As they prepare for a 3-week trip to Perú in January, students will also examine approaches to digital and print narratives, discuss policy advocacy and nonprofits, and develop digital storytelling skills. First module of a unique three-part, year-long course.
Students should plan to enroll in this course for Fall(1 credit), IDS-1133 for January Term (2 credits) and IDS-1139 for Spring(1 credit). Instructor Permission is required.
McDaniel Plan: Scientific Inquiry; International; Experiential
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IDS 1133 - The Forest Online II Credits: 2.0
A three-week trip to Perú to explore and share the challenges forests, nonprofits, and communities face on the Amazon frontier. Itinerary includes flying into historic Cusco, then traveling through a variety of unique ecosystems and communities to reach the semi-remote region of Madre De Dios to do fieldwork at a “living laboratory” of protected rainforest. Each step of the way will inform both live web publishing and future digital narratives. Second module of a unique three-part, year-long course.
Prerequisites/Co-requisites IDS 1132, instructor permission
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IDS 1135 - American Cultural Diversity Credits: 4
This course will introduce students to issues of cultural, ethnic, racial, and artistic diversity in American culture through comparative study focusing primarily on musical artistic expression.
Cross-listed with MUL 1135.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding.
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IDS 1136 - Community and Globalization Credits: 2
This Jan Term study/community engagement experience will help students to understand globalization on a deep, personal level. Through readings, reflections and visits to factories, farms, schools, homes and more, students will come to understand the complex personal, social and political issues that arise when one’s local experience is connected to greater global realities. Students will be introduced to community members, workers, business owners, diplomats, migrants, activists, and social service providers, and they will have opportunities to engage with the community, be that through participant observer community work or reflection on ways to be civically engaged both in the United States and abroad.
Note: Registration in a study tour does not guarantee participation. The faculty leader for the study must provide final approval for all registered students to participate. By registering for this class you agree to allow the Office of Student Affairs to review and approve your student record along with the faculty instructor of the class. Your enrollment in this class is not final until Student Affairs and the faculty instructor for the class approve your registration.
McDaniel Plan: January Term; Experiential
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IDS 1138 - From Play to Product Credits: 2.0
Are innovators born or trained? Is creation a skill or a trait? Some believe that both are skills with origins in play. This course is designed to explore creation and innovation with hands-on experiments that follow the flow from play to product. Simultaneously, we will study the process of innovation through readings and TED talks. As a cumulative product, the class will create a design for an Innovation Incubator. Be warned: We Will Play!
McDaniel Plan: Jan Term
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IDS 1139 - The Forest Online III Credits: 1.0
Seminar where students continue to process their Perúvian Jan-term experience. Culminating project(s) will focus on synthesizing the information they collected and how to best leverage it via digital storytelling, both to advance the conservation and sustainable development goals of nonprofits working in Perú and students’ own personal and professional goals. Final module of a unique three-part, year-long course.
Prerequisites/Co-requisites IDS 1133
McDaniel Plan: International, Scientific Inquiry
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IDS 1142 - Exploring the History and Culture of Central Europe Credits: 2
Explore the culture and history of four central European countries: Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary and Austria. The participants will learn about current events and the history of these four countries, especially the history of Germany: during the Nazi time, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the aftermath of German unification.
This trip will offer students the opportunity to visit an important region in Central Europe. They will visit old, and historic German, Czech, Hungarian and Austrian cities such as Berlin, capital of reunified Germany, Heidelberg, Germany’s oldest university town; Munich, Bavaria’s most important city and the residence of the historic Wittelsbach family. Other stops will include Dachau, Germany’s first concentration camp; Vienna, the city of music; Salzburg, the birthplace of the most famous Austrian musician, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Prague, where Mozart first conducted Don Giovanni.
Note: Registration in a study tour does not guarantee participation. The faculty leader for the study must provide final approval for all registered students to participate. By registering for this class you agree to allow the Office of Student Affairs to review and approve your student record along with the faculty instructor of the class. Your enrollment in this class is not final until Student Affairs and the faculty instructor for the class approve your registration.
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IDS 1146 - Exploring Belize Credits: 2
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IDS 1152 - African-American Culture: Three Perspectives Credits: 4
This interdisciplinary course explores African- American culture from a literary, musical, and sociological perspective. While these perspectives represent distinct fields of study, they also intersect and complement one another. Exploring a text from various vantage points, provides a fuller context and broadens and complicates its interpretation. Such a multidisciplinary approach leads students to a fuller understanding and appreciation of the specific works under consideration and of African- American culture as a whole.
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IDS 1156 - Greece: Myths, Monks, and Monuments Credits: 2
McDaniel in Greece offers an intensive introduction to the history and culture of ancient Greece, including the Pre-Historic, Classical, and Byzantine Periods, primarily through its material remains. Students will study and visit a broad range of significant monuments, museums, and archaeological sites, with special emphasis on the insight they offer into Greek culture. Particular attention will be given to Greek religious belief and practices and how they are related to the material remains. In addition to extensive time and study in Athens, students will travel to Corinth, Crete, Delphi, Eleusis, Meteora, Mycenae, Olympia, Santorini, and Sounion. Study of sites, monuments and museums will be supplemented by a selection of primary and secondary source readings.
Registration in a study tour does not guarantee participation. The faculty leader for the study must provide final approval for all registered students to participate.
By registering for this class you agree to allow the Office of Student Affairs to review and approve your student record along with the faculty instructor of the class. Your enrollment in this class is not final until Student Affairs and the faculty instructor for the class approve your registration.
McDaniel Plan: Jan Term
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IDS 1157 - Hunting for Dracula Credits: 2
In this course, students retrace the steps of Dracula and the people he hunts (and is hunted by) in two vampire novels: Bram Stoker’s classic Dracula (1897) and Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian (2005), a provocative re-imagining of the Dracula legend set in the 20th century. Stoker’s novel follows a group of British people as they encounter Dracula in Romania and their native England. Kostova’s The Historian follows three generations of scholars as they search for Dracula’s secret tomb and library in Eastern Europe. Both authors base the character of Dracula on Vlad Dracula/Tepes, the infamous 15th-century Romanian warlord. On this tour, we will visit three locations prominent in these novels and the historical Dracula’s life: Romania, England, and Istanbul, Turkey. Like the two novels we will study, the course will be as much about history-especially the history of imperialistic conquest and cross-cultural tensions-as it is about vampires. We will examine the medieval clash between Islam and Christianity in Southeastern Europe, in which Vlad Tepes played a central role, and the impact of which is still felt in the modern world. We will also consider how scholars interpret and evaluate historical records generated by authors on different sides of cross-cultural conflicts. Finally, we will examine the role that literature plays in representing and even shaping history, as well as our experiences as travelers. Is it possible to find the “real” Dracula, the “real” Transylvania, or even the “real” Victorian London, once they are fictionalized in a powerful novel?
Note: Registration in a study tour does not guarantee participation. The faculty leader for the study must provide final approval for all registered students to participate. By registering for this class you agree to allow the Office of Student Affairs to review and approve your student record along with the faculty instructor of the class. Your enrollment in this class is not final until Student Affairs and the faculty instructor for the class approve your registration.
McDaniel Plan: January Term
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