History
Some historical views:
Orient, Latin America,
Canada and modern war
list 393
Far East Asia in Modern Times
Jeff Barlow, a new professor on campus since
last term, is teaching this last part of a three
sequence survey course of China, Japan and
Vietnam. Major themes of the course will be the
origins and the development of Chinese and Viet
namese revolutionary Communism, the rise of
Japanese militarism, the process by which the U.S.
became involved in these movements, and the
course of international affairs in the Far East to the
present. Also, some attention will be aiven to the
institutions of the People’s Republic of China.
Class meets three times a week -10:30 MWF
in 103 Fenton. Three credits is offered with optional
grading for non-history majors. “Those competing
for a grade of C will have to do a satisfactory mid
term and final; those competing for a B will have to
do an additional short paper of about five pages;
and those competing for an A an additional paper of
about seven pages.’’ says Barlow about grading
procedures.
There are five required texts for the
class “Sources of the Japanese Tradition,”
“Anthology of Chinese Literature,” “China Shakes
the World,” “China: The Revolution Continued,”
and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion.” Barlow
says that required reading would entail only parts
of the first two texts and that they would be
available in the reserve book room.
list 352
Hispanic America
The history department is offering a course
entitled Hispanic America for three credits. The
class is a survey course dealing with Latin America
from the 1900s to the present, says Mark Falcoff, the
instructor of the course He warns that some
students mistakenly sign up for the class thinking
that it deals with Chicano history. Not so, he says.
The class will deal with World Wars I and II, and the
tremendous adjustments Latin Americans have had
to make; the Latin American social and political
tensions arising from industrialization and ur
banization. In particular the class will devote some
time to the Peron Movement and the Mexican
Revolution.
There are three required texts for the class,
two of which students from Hst 350 and 351 will
have. The texts are: "History of Latin American
Civilization,’’ "Latin America: A Concise In
terpretative History” and “Spanish America: 1900
1970 ”
Hst 465(1
History of Cuba
Cuba in the Modern World, a three-credit upper
division course carrying graduate credit, is being
offered for students interested in Latin American
history beyond the survey Hst 352 (Hispanic
America) level.
Mark Falcoff, whose specialization is in Latin
American history, is teaching this course along with
Hst 352. He says that although he is not setting any
prerequisites for the class, he would “prefer that
students have had Hst 352.”
The class meets thrice weekly-2:30 MWF-in
336 Commonwealth. The course will be devoted
mainly to Falcoff’s lectures, a mid-term, a final and
a film on Fidel Castro. There are four paperback
textbooks: “Cuban Policy of the United States,”
“The Making of a Revolution,” “Background to
Revolution,” and “The Autobiography of a
Runaway Slave.”
The course will cover Cuban history from the
1760’s to 1959 (the fall of Batista). The mid-term will
cover the 19th century-looking into slavery as an
institution and the independence movement. The
final part of the course will concentrate on the
failure of Cuba to achieve a democratic republic in
the 1898-1933 era and also on the 1933-1959 period
which saw the fall of Batista and the rise of Castro.
Hst 363
History of Canada
“This one-term course surveys the history of
the nearest neighbor and best customer of the
United States, with emphasis upon Canada’s
development in the last 100 years and her relations
with the United States,” says a course handout
prepared by the instructor of History of Canada.
Robert Smith is introducing the three-credit
history course spring term that will meet twice
weekly-10:30-12:20 UH-in 232 Commonwealth. The
course offers upper division credit with optional
grading for non-history majors.
The course will quickly review 17th and 18th
century Canadian history, according to Smith. The
main focus of the course will be given to Canadian
American relations, especially the growth in
Canada of a critical attitude toward American
influences in Canadian life; the French-Canada
problem; recent strains upon Canadian federation.
Shahryar Ahmad
Hst 216
War and the Modern World
The history department is offering a new class,
War and the Modern World, spring term. Taught by
Roger Chickering, it will concentrate on the ways
war has changed in response to technological, social
and political factors, and also the reverse-how war
affects politics and society.
Chickering said the class will use lectures,
slides and diagrams to study “the ways in which
people kill each other,” and war as a part of a
society. Chronologically, the class will cover the
period from the 18th century to the present.
The class is being offered as an alternative to
the basic History of Western Civilization class, Hst
101-103. Formerly, military history was taught
through the ROTC.
Cynthia Spinelli
Geography
Are cities prepared for the future?
Cieog 105
l:rban Environment
People often come to Eugene, they say,
because they don’t like cities. So it seems ap
propriate that a class taught in Eugene would focus
on cities — both why people don’t like them, and why
so many people continue to live in them.
Jim Stembridge's class will use readings,
lectures, maps and air photos to study cities. Air
photos and topographic maps will be used to study
changes that have taken place during years and
why these changes have occurred where they have.
In addition class members will do "urban tran
sects,” walking through the city on a straight line to
see what different buildings, businesses and houses
are on that line.
Stembridge says his goal for the class is “to
give people things they can take with them,” so
when they leave the University, “they will enjoy
looking at the world more.”
Cynthia Spinelli
Geog 103
Landscape. Environment and Culture
Finding out “how people view the environment
in which they live” is one of the goals of A1
Urquhart’s Landscape, Environment and Culture
class.
To achieve that goal, Urquhart has divided the
class format into two parts. Twice a week students
will attend lectures covering a wide range of topics
dealing with the way people have looked at their
environment, both in the United States and in other
part of the world.
The second part of the class will be field work.
Urquhart said students will be doing about five field
projects each in which they will be viewing how
Eugene citizens have shaped their environment.
They will observe such things as houses, streets and
the effects of cars.
Urquhart said the purpose of the field work is to
“get people out to observe.” He emphasized that
students will be expected'to apply the principles
they have been learning in the class lectures and
readings to their observations ir. the community,
thus integrating the two halves of the class format.
Cynthia Spinelli
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