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AP/HIST 3160 6.00 Women And Gender In Ancient Greece And Rome

This course challenges the traditional dichotomy of women's and great man history by addressing questions of gender roles and their social functions in Greek and Roman society. Surviving evidence from the ancient world is primarily literature written by men of the upper strata of society. A major focus of this course will be to determine […]

AP/HIST 3155 3.00 Egypt After Cleopatra: Society And Culture In A Roman Province

Trailer. When Egypt came under Roman rule in 30 BC, its administrative machinery certainly changed. But what of the social and cultural impacts of these transitions? Did the inhabitants of Egypt begin to identify as Romans? Did political and administrative change really impinge on the deeper structures and processes of life on the Nile, such […]

AP/HIST 3154 3.00 Egypt From Alexander To Cleopatra

The occupation of Egypt by Alexander the Great and the establishment of the Ptolemaic monarchy resulted in a significant influx of settlers from all around the Greek world. In this course, we examine the complex social, cultural, and political negotiations that resulted from this ancient episode of colonialism. How did the Ptolemaic monarchs, who had […]

AP/HIST 3150 6.00 Early Greek History

This course examines the political, social, economic and intellectual history of Greece in the Bronze Age and the Archaic Period. It covers Mycenaean Greece, the Dark Age, and the rise of the city-state and culminates in the Persian Wars.

AP/JWST 3856 3.0 Women and the Holocaust

Through the work of a small group of scholars across disciplines, there has been a growing acknowledgment of the importance of gender as a category of analysis in deepening our understanding of the past and its relevance to the present. Although both men and women were victimized by the Nazi genocide, writing by men and […]

AP/JWST 3425 3.00 Dead Sea Scrolls

The Dead Sea Scrolls provide an intriguing window into the development of early Christianity and rabbinic Judaism. This course examines the texts, the communities which produced them, contemporary movements within Judaism and Christianity, and the major lines of interpretive controversy.

AP/HIST 3145 3.00 Roman Britain

This course studies the history of Roman Britain from Julius Caesar’s invasions of Britain in 55 and 54 BC until the end of Roman rule in the 5th century AD.