History

This course explores the historical evolution of the aerospace industry and technologies, highlighting the development of various elements of aircraft and the impact on human life.

This course offers a study of Spanish history from the late fifteenth to the late eighteenth century including political processes, social relations, and cultural productions of modernity.

This course examines the history of Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries: the growth of Islam and Christianity, the impact of European colonialism, the development of nationalism, and the variety of different political and social outcomes after independence

This course covers the development of public administrations during the 18th and 19th centuries. It addresses the ways in which government impresses political will onto the day-to-day lives of ordinary people, and how, inversely, society shapes government. It is both a course in history and public law. The course draws attention to the centuries of social evolution and legal tinkering behind many habitual features of our contemporary “bureaucratic” administrations. It explores several administrative systems across the Atlantic and Europe, namely that of the United States, Britain, France, Germany, the Ottoman Empire, and Russia. Each session begins with the commentary of a visual document relating to aspects of a period's daily life containing cues to the legal and institutional context. The rest of the session consists of a brief lecture and a primary sources discussion. Sources are provided in a reader and mostly consist of historical legal documents.

This course offers a study of Spanish history from the end of the 19th century to the present.

This course examines the dynamics of contemporary racism in France through a knowledge of long history. It traces the genealogy of racism as it is expressed, both in the processes at work and in the debates that run through our society. To achieve this, the seminar focuses in particular, but not exclusively, on the legacy of our colonial past in terms of the expression of racism. This focus is directly linked to the lively debates that have arisen since the late 1990s as French society questions its colonial past. The seminar also develops the ability to reflect on the issues raised in a complex and problematized way.

This course deals with political, economic, intellectual and cultural events that occurred in the history of Asia from 1945-1989. The course covers the following topics: 

• The First Indochina War (1945-1954): the Cold War comes to Vietnam 

• The two Vietnams (1954-1964): The Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Republic of Vietnam 

• The Second Indochina War (1964-1975): Vietnam in the Center of the Cold War  

• Cambodia and Laos (1945-1979): Decolonization and Cold War 

• Indochina at Peace? (1975-1989): Cambodia and Laos 

• Indochina at Peace? (1975-1989): Vietnam 

• Thailand and Myanmar (1945-1989) 

• The Philippines (1945-1989) 

• Indonesia (1945-1989) 

• The Cold War in Southeast Asia as an Intelligence War 

• Southeast Asia after the end of the Cold War 

This course offers a study of the different pre-Hispanic indigenous peoples, from a multidimensional perspective, establishing dialogues with the processes that these peoples currently experience. 

This course provides an overview of the military conflicts that began with the Nazi invasion of Poland in September 1939 and ended with Germany’s unconditional surrender in May 1945. But it is not a military history course in the narrow sense. It instead focuses on the European population’s experience of the war and its legacies for post-war European societies. The course looks closely at the Nazi policies that played a decisive role in shaping both the unfolding of the military conflict and the fate of civilian populations that came under extended periods of German rule, as well as the visions of the Western Allies and the Soviet Union that jointly shaped the post-war order. 

This course offers a study of contemporary Chilean and world history through examination of artistic expression (film, music, visual arts) of the Golden Age from 1945-1973.