History

This course explores the relationship between the police, the judicial system, and policy makers in London. Students learn the history of the police force in the UK and the developments that have formed the Metropolitan Police in London today. Topics covered include corruption, race relations, policing major demonstrations and riots, and the impact of government policy on policing. Students explore the politics behind decisions and the framework of the law.

This course provides a general introduction of the modern history of the two Koreas. It examines the evolution of Korean society since liberation from Japan in 1945 up to the present. The class covers topics related to transition in the East Asian international order, division of the Korean Peninsula, the Korean War, economic growth and social transformation in South Korean society, North Korean society, and the South-North relationship. It provides a general overview of Korean history since 1945. Through class discussions on student presentations and documentaries, students are encouraged to familiarize themselves with the key historical, as well as current, issues and to develop and present their own perspectives to look at these issues.

The course looks at domestic dynamics in Korean society from the traditional era and attempts to understand modern Korean history, in particular related to foreign relations. Other course topics include Korea's economic growth and democratization; understanding of North Korea; Korea's position in the world; Choson society and its longevity; the Colonial Period; division of the Korean Peninsula; politics; the Korean War; Armistice agreement system; U.S.-Korea Relationship; U.S. troop presence in South Korea; North Korea's modern history; and, North Korean Society.

This course examines the most recent archaeological achievements from the evolution of humans and the Paleolithic age to the origins of agriculture, states, and empires throughout Africa, Europe, Asia, Australasia, and the Americas (North and South). This course provides an opportunity for students to extend their areas of interest into global prehistory and look at themes surrounding what makes us human and how have we changed over the course of our shared past.

This course is an introduction to the history of epidemics from the Neolithic period to neoliberal twenty-first century. It adopts an original angle: the perspective of planetary health, a recently emerged framework that proposes to address the interplay between health and disease, local environments, and the planetary crisis. The course engages simultaneously with the history of medicine (including the legacies of Hippocratic and medieval theories of epidemics), with global history (trade, war, colonialism, international governance), and with environmental history (emergence of pathogens, ecological transformation, multi-species histories, Anthropocene studies). Exploring examples including cholera, plague, Covid-19, and HIV-AIDS, it explores how epidemics are embedded within wider pathogenic ecologies shaped by political structures, planetary change, and human (in)action and ignorance. To do so, it follows a “place-based” approached, which avoids the repetitive and sometimes stereotypical genre of epidemic narratives. Focus is also placed on greater Paris as a region marked by the experience of epidemics and epidemic control.

This course explores political emancipation and construction of the State in the Brazilian Empire. Its analyzes the principal social groups who influenced the construction of the imperial state. This course discusses 18th-century revolts against colonial rule, independence, the political process during the Empire, republicanism, and the abolition movement.