Undergraduate Bulletin - Loyola Marymount University

162 / HISTORY
HIST 372
History of Mexico
3 Semester Hours
An analysis of the colonial and national periods, with
emphasis on 20th-century revolution and socio-economic
development.
HIST 390
African Kingdoms
3 Semester Hours
A study of significant kingdoms of Black Africa exploring the
major themes of the period.
HIST 392
Colonial Africa: 1860-1980
3 Semester Hours
A study of the inception and development of European rule
over various parts of Africa by European imperialists of the
19th century.
HIST 395
Orientalism
3 Semester Hours
This course will introduce students to the history of
Euro-American discourse on the “East,” often referred
to as Orientalism, and its social, political, and cultural
consequences for both “westerners” and people in the
Middle East or Asia.
HIST 455
The Ottoman Empire
3 Semester Hours
A study of the Ottoman Empire from the Fall of Constantinople
in 1453 until its dismemberment in 1918.
HIST 458
Society and Culture in the Modern Middle East
3 Semester Hours
A topical exploration of the history and politics of the Middle
East in the 20th century that will be based on essays and
novels written by Middle Eastern men and women.
HIST 459
The Palestine/Israel Conflict
3 Semester Hours
This course will trace the history of the conflict from its
beginnings in the 19th century to the present. It will cover
Zionism, Ottoman Palestine, and the conflict itself in its
regional and international contexts.
HIST 474
Brazil
3 Semester Hours
Brazil from colonial times to the present, analyzing national
development, major socio-economic problems, class, caste,
power, poverty, and revolution.
HIST 482
Imperial China
3 Semester Hours
This course explores the origins of Chinese civilization and
culture and the growth of the Chinese Imperial state from
earliest times to the early 19th century, just prior to fullscale
contact with the Western world.
HIST 483
Modern China
3 Semester Hours
This is a course on modern Chinese history from the midnineteenth
century to the present. Major themes examined
are the collapse of the traditional Chinese world order, the
failure of the republican revolution of 1911, the birth of
Chinese nationalism, Mao Zedong’s Chinese communism,
and Deng Xiaoping’s strategy for modernization.
HIST 484
Samurai in Japanese History
3 Semester Hours
This course explores the cultural, political, religious, and
military history of the samarai as a status group from their
earliest emergence in Japan to the collapse and abolition of
samarai rule in Japan’s quest to remake itself as a modern
nation-state in the 19th century.
HIST 485
Twentieth-Century Japan
3 Semester Hours
This course examines the history of Japanese experiences
of modernity across the 20th century, focusing on the
diversity, unevenness, and conflicts that are often elided by
assertions of Japanese homogeneity.
HIST 490
The Quest for the Nile’s Source
3 Semester Hours
A study of the quest for the source of the Nile River and
the interaction of African, European, and Asian peoples in
the area.