2012-2013 - Sweet Briar College

CR 3.0
criminal law, penal institutions, and criminal jurisprudence from
antiquity to the modern world. Patterns of criminality and enforcement,
attempts at controlling crime, and philosophies regarding crime and
punishment will be explored. We will also examine current debates on
such controversial issues as violence, the death penalty, and the
prosecution of “crimes against humanity.” No knowledge of statistics
or data analysis is assumed. Students will learn the necessary
techniques and skills in the course. May be counted as an auxiliary
course toward the minor in gender studies. III.Q, V.1, V.7
HIST
261
CR 2.0
Directed Study
Prerequisites: One HIST course and permission of the instructor. The
study of introductory level material by an individual student or by a
small group of students under the immediate supervision of a faculty
member.
HIST
269
CR 3.0
Africa in World
Affairs
An introduction to modern Africa from 1880 to the present that
concentrates on the experience of Colonial rule and its relation to the
rise of national movements that led to the creation of independent states
in the 1960s. Special emphasis will be placed on economic and
political developments during the period of independence that affect
Africa’s international relations. V.4, V.5
HIST
272
CR 3.0
Pre-Colonial African
History
An introduction to the development of African political culture from
the tenth to nineteenth centuries. After studying the historical
foundations of local institutions, the course will focus on the formation
of states before and during the period of the slave trade until about
1860. Emphasis on contemporary historical sources. V.4, V.5
HIST
308
CR 3.0
Encounters,
Conquest and
European Expansion,
1350-1650
Prerequisite: HIST 143 or HIST 224. This course probes the economic,
scientific, and territorial expansions that both fuelled and resulted from
the “rebirth” of western Europe during the early modern era. Topics
include Columbus’s voyages to the New World; the Portuguese slave
trade in Africa; Italian and Ottoman commercial rivalries in the
Mediterranean; Spanish, British and French colonization of the
Americas; and Europe’s scientific responses to the new and strange