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HIST 1000 PW1 - Understanding Historical Change: Modern Europe
Summer Session III, May 30 - August 7, 2023
Online, Asynchronous

Introduction to the nature and methods of historical study and the examination of specific topics essential for understanding the evolution of modern institutions, ideologies, and political situations.

CRN: 15042

Instructor: Gauthier, Brandon
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: HC, INST, IPE, IRST, ISEU

HIST 1100 V11 - Understanding Historical Change: American History
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Online: TWTh, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

Introduction to the nature and methods of historical study and examination of specific topics focusing on significant periods in the development of the U.S. and considering them in the light of certain elements shaping that history. Among these elements are the constitutional and political system; and the society's ideals, structure, economic policy, and world outlook.

CRN: 14875

Instructor: Dietrich, Christopher
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: AMST, APPI, ASHS, EP1, FRHE, FRHI, HC

HIST 1100 L21 - Understanding Historical Change: American Slavery and Jacksonian Democracy 1812-1850
Summer Session II, July 5 - August 7, 2023
Lincoln Center: TWTh, 01:00PM - 04:00PM

CRN: 14992

Instructor: Alcenat, Westenley
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: AMST, APPI, ASHS, FRHE, FRHI, HC

HIST 1210 PW1 - Understanding Historical Change: Ancient Greece
Summer Session III, May 30 - August 7, 2023
Online, Asynchronous

A political, social, and intellectual history of ancient Greece from its origin to the death of Alexander the Great.

CRN: 15036

Instructor: Foster, John
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: HC

HIST 1300 R21 - Understanding Historical Change: Medieval
Summer Session II, July 5 - August 7, 2023
Rose Hill: TWTh, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

Introduction to the nature and methods of historical study and the examination of specific topics essential for understanding the emergence and development of Europe from the decline of the Roman Empire to the early Renaissance. A topical study of political, social, economic, religious, and cultural issues, ideas, and institutions.

CRN: 14942

Instructor: Bruno, Christina
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: EP1, FRHI, HC, MVST, OCHS, OCST

HIST 1600 L11 - Understanding Historical Change: Africa
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Lincoln Center: TWTh, 01:00PM - 04:00PM

Introduction to the political, social, economic and institutional history of Africa.

CRN: 14811

Instructor: Idris, Amir
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: AFAM, GLBL, HC, INST, IPE, ISAF, MEST, PJRC, PJST

HIST 3430 L11 - The World of Queen Elizabeth I
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Lincoln Center, Hybrid: TTh, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

This course explores the world of Queen Elizabeth, the last Tudor sovereign, by looking at four overlapping themes which together shaped the Elizabethan period: state and society in the kingdom of England; overseas discovery; European diplomacy; and the kingdom of Ireland. Supplemental asynchronous online coursework will be required in this course.

CRN: 14804

Instructor: Maginn, Christopher
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: AHC, EP3, IRST

HIST 3759 L11 - AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN'S ACTIVISM (1815-1920)
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Lincoln Center, Hybrid: MTh, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

This course will present United States history from 1815 to 1915 using the historical lens of a Black woman-centered perspective. We will focus on women’s relationships to, and roles in, the diverse communities that developed in the U.S. The class takes a close look at the political strategies used by African American women activists to broaden universal access to democratic citizenship for all American women in U.S. society. In the words of African American educator, Anna Julia Cooper, the struggles fought by Black women were shaped by a universalist outlook on social progress: “The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class—it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.” In their long effort to regain their birthright, African-American women have had to struggle against efforts to dehumanize them. As Malcolm X, the noted civil rights leader, argued, throughout history “The most neglected person in America is the Black woman.” However, to quote Karl Marx, the political economist, in any society, true “Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.” Here then is the goal of this class: to understand how African-American women’s activism has uniquely contributed to the betterment of modern American society. Working from this perspective, a major part of the class focuses on the evolving changes to the political status of Black women over time, especially how Black women’s activism influenced the pursuit for equal citizenship on behalf of themselves and the larger African American community.

CRN: 15075

Instructor: Alcenat, Westenley
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: ADVD, AFAM, AHC, AMST, APPI, ASHS, HIAH, WGSS

HIST 3950 V11 - Latino History
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Online: MTWTh, 01:00PM - 04:00PM

This course explores the development of the Latina/o population in the U.S. by focusing on the questions of migration, race, ethnicity, labor, family, sexuality, and citizenship. Specific topics include: United States colonial expansion and its effects on the population of Latin America; Mexican-Americans, and the making of the West; colonialism and the Puerto Rican Diaspora; Caribbean revolutions and the Cuban-American community; and globalization and recent Latina/o migrations (Dominicans, Colombians).

CRN: 14876

Instructor: Acosta, Salvador
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: ACUP, ADVD, AHC, AMST, APPI, ASHS, COLI, EP3, HIAH, HIUL, INST, ISIN, ISLA, LALS, LAUH, PJRC, PJST, PLUR, URST

HIST 3969 V21 - Latin America and the US
Summer Session II, July 5 - August 7, 2023
Online: MTWTh, 01:00PM - 04:00PM

This course will be a survey of the history of the Latin America policy of the United States and the impact of such policy on the Latin American countries. Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require three additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction.

CRN: 15109

Instructor: Acosta, Salvador
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: ACUP, ADVD, AHC, AMST, APPI, ASHS, EP3, GLBL, HHPA, HIGH, HIUL, HUST, INST, ISIN, ISLA, LALS, LAUH, PJRC, PJST

HIST 4009 V11 - Film, Fiction, Power
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Online: MTWTh, 02:00PM - 05:00PM

Visual and written representations of American power have influenced, challenged and even transformed U.S. relations in the world. With their capacity to reach millions, films and fiction do more than tell stories or entertain audiences. They also have the unparalled means to shape values and beliefs, and to convey attitudes toward the nature and practice of American power. What sort of themes of international power did authors, screen-writers, and directors address in the twentieth century? What do these reflections on power reveal about American society, its politics, and its place in the world?

CRN: 14877

Instructor: Dietrich, Christopher
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: ACUP, AMST, APPI, ASAM, ASHS, HIAH, ICC

HIST 5204 PW1 - Medieval Environmental History
Summer Session III, May 30 - August 7, 2023, 2023
Online, Asynchronous

Graduate course. This seminar is intended to familiarize graduate students with current themes and trends in medieval environmental history. Weekly reading assignments comprise historical monographs and scholarly articles in English.

CRN: 15066

Instructor: Bruce, Scott
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: HGVH, MVST, PSEV

HIST 5424 V11 - Women, Science and Technology
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Online: TTh, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

Graduate course. Natural knowledge and the manipulation of nature have often been gendered, but how, why, and by whom? This seminar will explore the multitude of ways that women have shaped and been shaped by these gendered visions of nature and the tools for controlling it. What forms of natural knowledge were deemed appropriate for women? Why were women understood to be particularly adept at specific technologies or handicrafts? How were spaces for scientific practice or technological production rendered hospitable or, more often, inhospitable for women? In what ways have systems of scientific authority limited or encouraged the participation of female researchers? How have science and technology been used to act on women's bodies? Are there specifically "womanly" ways of knowing? These and other questions will be explored through cases across a wide range of periods, disciplines, and geographies, allowing us not only to question the shifting place of women within the worlds of science and technology but also to question our assumptions about the place of science and technology within different societies.

CRN: 14976

Instructor: Shen, Grace
4 credits

Classes listed as either Lincoln Center or Rose Hill will meet on-campus only. Classes listed as "Online" during Session I or II will meet synchronously online during their scheduled meeting times. Students in different time zones should plan accordingly. Session III online courses are asynchronous (exceptions are noted in course descriptions).

Hybrid courses will meet in person on campus at the times indicated; additional online work will also be required.