HIST 101A WESTERN CIVILIZATION
Description: To understand the roots and development of the Western heritage, students examine key issues in the history of the ancient world (the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece and Rome) and its heirs in Medieval and Renaissance Europe. Topics include: forms of political systems, imperialism, Christianity and its interaction with Judaism and Islam, feudalism/manorialism, church vs. state, class and gender, social and economic issues, science, philosophy, art and historiography. Also provides an opportunity to learn by doing the work of the historian. For first- and second-year students, majors/minors and non-majors.
Format: Two lectures/week and one mandatory discussion section per week. An in-class, one question mid-term essay examination and a two-question, non-cumulative final. Students write a 12-15 page research paper.
Books: Noble, et al., WESTERN CIVILIZATION. THE CONTINUING EXPERIMENT (5th ed.); M. Perry, SOURCES OF THE WESTERN TRADITION, VOL I: FROM ANCIENT TIMES TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT (brief edition).
Notes: THIS COURSE IS APPROPRIATE FOR FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS.
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HIST 101B WESTERN CIVILIZATION
Description: To understand the roots and development of the Western heritage, students examine key issues in the history of the ancient world (the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece and Rome) and its heirs in Medieval and Renaissance Europe. Topics include: forms of political systems, imperialism, Christianity and its interaction with Judaism and Islam, feudalism/manorialism, church vs. state, class and gender, social and economic issues, science, philosophy, art and historiography. Also provides an opportunity to learn by doing the work of the historian. For first- and second-year students, majors/minors and non-majors.
Format: Two lectures/week and one mandatory discussion section per week. An in-class, one question mid-term essay examination and a two-question, non-cumulative final. All students write a 12-15 page research paper; writing sections write an additional 5-7 page paper.
Books: Noble, et al., WESTERN CIVILIZATION. THE CONTINUING EXPERIMENT (4th ed.); M. Perry, SOURCES OF THE WESTERN TRADITION, VOL I: FROM ANCIENT TIMES TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT (brief edition).
Notes: THIS COURSE IS APPROPRIATE FOR FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS.
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HIST 103A FOUNDATIONS OF AMERICA
Description: Examines the development of American society from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. Special attention paid to the interaction of European, Native American and African peoples. Examines the institutional development of slavery, the displacement of Native Americans and the role these developments played in the shaping of European American society and institutions. Readings and lectures reflect the experiences of different peoples in America and approach these experiences from a variety of methodological perspectives. Satisfies both history and philosophy, politics and law major.
Format: Two lectures and one discussion section. This course satisfies the Harpur College "W" requirement and the university's "Pluralism" requirement.
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HIST 104B MODERN AMERICAN CIVILIZATION
Description: An exploration of the social and political history of the United States from the Civil War to the present. The course will focus on particular groups or phenomena throughout the term, with the goal of crafting a more intimate picture of the American experience. Implicit in this is an attempt not only to understand how the nation functioned, but also its level of dysfunction at various times.
Format: Format may vary by sections: Lectures and discussion sections. Evaluation will consist of mandatory rough drafts, two papers, take-home final, section attendance, section participation.
Books: Books may vary by sections: Selected texts may include: Horatio Alger, RAGGED DICK; Tim OBrien, THE THINGS THEY CARRIED; Anne Moody, COMING OF AGE IN MISSISSIPPI; others to be determined.
Notes: THIS COURSE IS APPROPRIATE FOR FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS.
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HIST 106A EAST ASIAN CIVILIZATIONS
Description: Introduction to the historical experiences of East Asia, particularly China, Korea and Japan. We will consider both the discrete histories of each of these countries from around 1500-1600 to the present as well as the ever-increasing interconnections among them. Specific topics will include: the religious/philosophical traditions of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism; perceptions of each other, of the West and by the West; the role of imperialism (including Japanese imperialism) in modern East Asia; the roles of nationalism, revolution, and socialism; and the future of East Asia in the twenty-first century.
Format: The class will meet each week for two hours of lecture and one hour of discussion (in discussion sections). The lectures will involve slides and occasional films. Requirements for non-writing students consist of three examinations (two in-class and one final for 25% each) and a 7-8 page book review (25%). Writing C students will be expected to do one in-class and one final examination (25% each), a 4-5 page thematic paper (10%), an 8-9 page paper drawing from readings on Chinese philosophy and religion (20%), and an 8-9 page book review (20%). Fulfills G and N requirements; 106B fulfills C requirement. Appropriate for freshmen.
Books: Schirokauer, MODERN EAST ASIA: A BRIEF HISTORY; Packet of Readings.
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HIST 106B EAST ASIAN CIVILIZATIONS
Description: Introduction to the historical experiences of East Asia, particularly China, Korea and Japan. We will consider both the discrete histories of each of these countries from around 1500-1600 to the present as well as the ever-increasing interconnections among them. Specific topics will include: the religious/philosophical traditions of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism; perceptions of each other, of the West and by the West; the role of imperialism (including Japanese imperialism) in modern East Asia; the roles of nationalism, revolution, and socialism; and the future of East Asia in the twenty-first century.
Format: The class will meet each week for two hours of lecture and one hour of discussion (in discussion sections). The lectures will involve slides and occasional films. Requirements for non-writing students consist of three examinations (two in-class and one final for 25% each) and a 7-8 page book review (25%). Writing C students will be expected to do one in-class and one final examination (25% each), a 4-5 page thematic paper (10%), an 8-9 page paper drawing from readings on Chinese philosophy and religion (20%), and an 8-9 page book review (20%). Fulfills G and N requirements; 106B fulfills C requirement. Appropriate for freshmen.
Books: Schirokauer, MODERN EAST ASIA: A BRIEF HISTORY; Packet of Readings.
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HIST 121A MIDDLE EAST SINCE 1453
Description: This is an introductory survey course in the history of Islamic Middle East from c. 1453 to the present. The emphasis will be on the regions now occupied by the Arab states, Turkey, Iran and Israel, although other regions will be mentioned. We begin during the Golden Ages of Iran and the Ottoman Empire, the dominant state in the Mediterranean world. We then study the transformation and then the decline of the two states, examining their cultural, social, economic and political institutions. We next study the Islamic Middle East in darker times, when it fell prey to European ambitions. The European occupation of the Mid East after World War I, the struggles for independence and the formation of the present-day states of the Middle East form the final subjects of our study.
Format: Each week there will be two hours of lecture; in addition, there will be one hour of discussion, usually focusing on primary sources in Middle Eastern history, literature and religion. There will be three classroom examinations. The exams will consist of short and long essay questions. Regular class participation and attendance is expected. There are no prerequisites except intellectual curiosity; non-majors and majors are welcome. Students in writing section will have assignments designed to meet that requirement.
Books: Quataert, THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, 1700-1922, 2nd ed., Cambridge UP; Khater, SOURCES IN THE HISTORY OF THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST, Houghton-Mifflin, 2004 (0395 98067 4); Gelvin, THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST. A HISTORY, New York and Oxford, 2004; and, a number of novels, to be determined.
Notes: THIS COURSE IS APPROPRIATE FOR FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS.
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HIST 183A INTRO TO AFRICANA STUDIES
Description: Broad survey of some of the major themes in African, African American and other African diasporic experiences over the past 200 years. Centers on systems, movements and ideas that have transcended national, continental and oceanic boundaries -- including slavery and emancipation, politics and religion, culture and identity, colonialism and nationalism. Methods of organization are thematic and chronological. Introduction to the making of the modern world, from the standpoint of the black experience globally.
Format: Lectures and discussions
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HIST 202 THE GREEK WORLD
Description: A survey of the ancient Greek world from Minoan-Mycenaean and Homeric times down to the Roman conquest. Emphasis on continuity and change in Greek society and culture, with particular attention paid to: variety of Greek political systems; law; family, gender & class; slavery, imperialism; religious and philosophical ideas; social unrest; literature, drama, and art. Ancient sources stressed. For majors and non-majors.
Format: Basically a lecture course, but ample time for discussion, questions, and amplifications. Evaluation based on a one-hour mid-term and a two-hour final, all of the essay type. Each of the three essays is worth 1/3 of the final grade.
Books: Pomeroy, et al., ANCIENT GREECE. A POLITICAL, SOCIAL, AND CULTURAL HISTORY; Nagle and Burstein, READINGS IN GREEK HISTORY; Lind, TEN GREEK PLAYS; Plutarch, THE RISE AND FALL OF ATHENS.
Notes: THIS COURSE IS APPROPRIATE FOR FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS.
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HIST 204 EARLY MIDDLE AGES: 180 - 900
Description: In studying late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, we will approach our sources from an interdisciplinary perspective that includes not only historical sources but archaeological and art historical material. This broad range of evidence will allow us to ask basic questions about the nature of power and authority among ruling elites during the collapse of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Germanic kingdoms in the West. Central to our study will be the role of religion, ethnic identity, and literacy in daily life in the Western Mediterranean from 180 to 900 CE.
Format: Course grades will be based on a quiz 10%; midterm 20%; 5-7 page essay (two drafts) 35%; participation 10%; final 25%.
Books: Brown, POWER AND PERSUASION IN LATE ANTIQUITY, White, trans., EARLY CHRISTIAN LIVES, Boethius, THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY, Julian of Toledo, THE STORY OF WAMBA, Collins, EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE, Thorpe, TWO LIVES OF CHARLEMAGNE, and other works on reserve and the internet.
Notes: THIS COURSE IS APPROPRIATE FOR FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS.
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HIST 235 MUSLIM PEOPLES OF THE WORLD
Description: Part I introduces Islam as a religio-social, legal, political and economic system. Part II surveys majority and minority Muslim populations in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. Topics include ethnicity, gender, colonialism, modernization, legal and social reforms, Muslim/non-Muslim relations.
Format: Lectures, film, weekly discussions. Course grades based on participation, midterm, cumulative final. Section 02 students write two 5-page papers or one 10-page paper.
Books: To be determined
Notes: THIS COURSE IS APPROPRIATE FOR FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS.
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HIST 244 MODERN JEWISH HISTORY
Description: Focuses on the history of the Jews from 1750 to the end of the 20th century in Europe, the Middle East and North America. Explores the religious, ideological and social development of diverse Jewish communities confronting the challenges and threats of modernity. Subjects include the struggle for Jewish emancipation, the rise of denominationalism, anti-Semitism and Zionism.
Format: Two lectures per week. Grades based on midterm(30%), 7-10 page paper due at the end of the semester(30%) and final exam(40%).
Books: Reinharz, Mendes-Flohr, THE JEW IN THE MODERN WORLD; Sachar, A HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN THE MODERN WORLD.
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HIST 267A ASIAN AMERICAN HISTORY
Description: This course examines the significance of Asians and their migration, labor, and political activities to the broad sweep of American history from 1848 to the 1990s. Topics include first-wave Asian immigration, labor, and enterprise; gender; citizenship, exclusion, and resistance; the Asian American Movement; Southeast Asian migration and post-1965 immigration; and anti-Asian violence. Because it is not possible to study every one of the more than twenty groups identified as Asian American in one semester, we will use case studies to illustrate larger themes. For first- and second-year students, majors and nonmajors. This course fulfills the N (Social Science) and PH (Pluralism/150 years of US History) General Education requirements, and the Harpur College W (Writing) requirement.
Format: Lectures and discussion sections. The reading averages 100 pages a week; there is a total of 20 pages of writing. Assignments include quizzes, two take-home midterm exams, and a final oral history paper. Students conduct an oral history interview with an Asian/Asian American and write a 5 to 7 page paper placing the interviewee's life in historical context. Grade will be based on quizzes, participation and attendance, the midterm exams, and final oral history paper.
Books: Required books: Takaki, STRANGERS FROM A DIFFERENT SHORE; Kurashige and Yang-Murray, MAJOR PROBLEMS IN ASIAN AMERICAN HISTORY; recommended books to be determined.
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HIST 271 JAPAN TO 1600
Description: An exploration of Japanese history, society, and culture, from its prehistoric origins until the early decades of the Tokugawa era. Employing a selection of primary source materials, as well as recent scholarship (both Japanese and Western), the course considers such issues as: state and power, Chinese and Korean influences, religion (Shinto, Buddhism, and Christianity); Confucian models, the role of the samurai; emperors, regents, and shogun; values, masterpieces of Japanese literature (poetry, novels, mythic accounts, historical records, diaries, and No dramas), economy, class; art & architecture.
Format: This will be a lecture course primarily, but with ample time for class discussion of the materials. There will be two examinations: an in-class mid-term (one essay) and a final (two essays) examination. Students will also write a 5-7 page paper on The Tale of Genji. The three essays and the paper will be worth 25% each.
Books: Hane, PREMODERN JAPAN; Tyler, THE TALE OF GENJI; Keene, ANTHOLOGY OF JAPANESE LITERATURE; Lu, JAPAN. A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY, vol. I.
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HIST 281L JEWS IN THE AGE OF RENAISSANCE
Description: The expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492 initiated a period of spiritual and material reorientation that contributed over a century and a half later to the outbreak of a vast Jewish messianic movement, to the creation of underground Jewish heresies, and to the beginnings ¿ paradoxically ¿ of a cultural reintegration of Jews into Western European life. Set against the backdrop of the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Inquisition, the Commercial Revolution and European colonialism and expansion to the West, course explores Jewish life in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and the New World during a vibrant and tumultuous era. No previous knowledge of Jewish history required.
Format: Grade based on class participation (5 percent); two short essays of five pages each (45 percent total); a midterm (20 percent) and a final examination (30 percent)
Books: Carmi, THE PENGUIN BOOK OF HEBREW VERSE; Gluckel, THE MEMOIRS OF GLUCKEL OF HAMELEN; Hanover, THE ABYSS OF DESPAIR; Israel, EUROPEAN JEWRY IN THE AGE OF MERCANTILISM; Brooks, THE WOMAN WHO DEFIED KINGS: THE LIFE AND TIME OF DONA GRACIA.
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HIST 281U WARS OF RELIGION
Description: This was a formative period in the emergence of the modern state in which a fatal mix of religion and politics led to conflicts of unprecedented savagery in which kidnap, assassination and massacre became common -- all accompanied by propaganda that poured from the new printing presses. Many Europeans found themselves trapped between fear of tyranny and fear of anarchy.
Format: The course is lecture-based with provision for class discussion. The thematic foci are: social structure and the stresses and strains within it; patterns of religious belief; revolutions and resolutions. There will be two examinations (mid-term and final) and one term paper.
Books: Mackenney, SIXTEENTH CENTURY EUROPE; Dunn, AGE OF THE WARS OF RELIGION
Notes: THIS COURSE IS APPROPRIATE FOR FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS.
Prerequisite: Open to first- and second-year students, majors and non-majors.
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HIST 283A INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN HISTORY
Description: Survey of African history to the mid-20th century. African diasporas; social, political and economic organization; religion and philosophy; education; women; inter-African and international relations; slavery; resistance to and effects of European rule; nationalism; liberation movements; problems of independence and post-independence.
Format: Grade based on two quizzes (20 percent); midterm (30 percent); final (50 percent); for writing credit, two five-page papers/reports or one 10-page paper/report.
Books: To be determined.
Notes: THIS COURSE IS APPROPRIATE FOR FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS.
Prerequisite: Anyone who has previously taken History or Africana 176 may NOT register for History or Africana 283A.
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HIST 284A KOREAN CIVILIZATION
Description: Provides the opportunity to become acquainted with Korea and Korean through a study of culture, history, literature and religion. Aims at a general understanding of Korea, with emphasis on history and culture. Attempts are made to highlight the uniqueness of the Korean cultural tradition in the broad context of East Asian civilization. No knowledge of Korean required. Reading materials and lectures taught in English.
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Books: (required): Nahm, KOREA: TRADITION AND TRANSFORMATION (A HISTORY OF THE KOREAN PEOPLE); Sohn, KOREAN: DESCRIPTIVE GRAMMARS; (supplementary): Cummings, KOREA'S PLACE IN THE SUN: A MODERN HISTORY; Eckert et al., KOREA OLD AND NEW: A HISTORY; Lee, SOURCEBOOK OF KOREAN CIVILIZATION. VOLUME I. FROM EARLY TIMES TO THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY; Nahm, INTRODUCTION TO KOREAN HISTORY AND CULTURE
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HIST 286A HISTORY OF MEDICINE
Description: Helps students appreciate how medical knowledge and practices are implicated in and influenced by social, political and economic forces; how the concepts of health and disease, the relationships among hospitals, professions and patients, the character of therapeutics and the role of science, technology and industry have changed over time. The course focuses on medicine in the West from the early modern period and in America from the 18th century to the present. It also includes materials on pre-modern and non-Western medicines. For majors and non-majors.
Format: Course Format: Lectures and discussion. Grades determined as follows: midterm exam, 25%; final exam, 35%; class attendance and participation, 15%; term paper 25%.
Books: Porter, THE GREATEST BENEFIT TO MANKIND; Bynum, SCIENCE AND THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY; Warner and Tighe, MAJOR PROBLEMS IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH.
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HIST 311 RACE AND RACISM IN MODERN EUROPE
Description: Examines how "race" has constructed European identity, and how it informed Western social theories that aided in the construction of racial others. By historically situating the doctrines of scientific racism, colonial racism, racial anti-Semitism and xenophobic nationalism, we interrogate how race has structured the colonial enterprises of modern European states, fascist ideology, popular and political discourse about immigration and, also, how it articulates with national and gender identities.
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Books: Ali, BRICK LANE; Brubaker, CITIZENSHIP AND NATIONHOOD IN FRANCE AND GERMANY; Burleigh and Wippermann, THE RACIAL STATE; Césaire, DISCOURSE ON COLONIALISM; Charef, TEA IN THE HAREM; Gould, MISMEASURE OF MAN; MacMaster, RACISM IN EUROPE.
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HIST 345A THE HOLOCAUST
Description: During World War II, Germany instituted a form of systematic, industrialized murder that was without precedent. Course explores the genesis of the Nazis' final solution of the Jewish question. How did the history of European anti-Semitism lay the groundwork for the Nazi policies? What role did ordinary Germans and other Europeans play in the apparatus of extermination? What was the relationship between efforts to make Europe Jew-free and other projects of social purification aimed at the physically and mentally disabled, Gypsies and other so-called inferior races?
Format: To be determined
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HIST 347 REBIRTH OF ISRAEL
Description: Examines the history of Israel from the beginnings of Zionism in late 19th-century Europe to the end of the 20th century. The first part of the course focuses on Zionist ideology, the Zionist settlement of Palestine, the diplomatic endeavors of the Zionist movement and the Zionist conflict with the Arabs of Palestine prior to 1948. The latter part of the course focuses on the social, diplomatic and military history of the state of Israel.
Format: Grades based on a midterm (30 percent), a 5-10 page paper (30 percent) and a final examination (40 percent).
Books: Oz, IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL; Hertzberg, THE ZIONIST IDEA; Efron, REAL JEWS; Shlaim, THE IRON WALL; Dowty, THE JEWISH STATE, A CENTURY LATER
Notes: THIS COURSE IS APPROPRIATE FOR FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS.
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HIST 351 19TH C U.S. HISTORY&LITERATURE
Description: We examine readers and writers of fictions produced in 19th century America, analyzing changes in common grounds, differences in social experiences, personal identities and relations of power. We ask how historians study literary evidence; how much of history is 'story', what work does literature do in its own time?
Format: Four take-home essays in response to questions distributed in class. Each essay must be five typed pages.
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HIST 380H AFRICAN-AMER CULTURAL POLITICS
Description: African American Cultural Images surveys the discourses concerning the formation and projection of racial stereotypes and icons, highlighting four historical moments during which the idea(l) of "Blackness" was highly contested: the period of enslavement, the Harlem Renaissance era, the Black Power era and the post-Civil Rights era.
Format: Students will complete two 3-5 page take-home examinations and an 8-10 page research paper.
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HIST 381F CONFLICT BETWEEN JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
Description: This course provides an overview of Jewish-Christian relations through the 18th century. Topics include the emergence of early Christianity and rabbinic Judaism; the image of the Jew in medieval Christian literature and of the gentile in Jewish law and Kabbalah; the decimation of Jewish communities during the Crusades; and the formal disputations between Jewish and Christian scholars. We conclude with a discussion of efforts during the Enlightenment to achieve a degree of reconciliation between the faiths. No previous knowledge of the topic is assumed.
Format: Lecture/discussion; midterm/final examination; two short essays.
Books: THE BIBLE; Eidelberg, THE JEWS AND THE CRUSADERS; Maccoby, JUDAISM ON TRIAL; Katz, EXCLUSIVENESS AND TOLERANCE.
Notes: THIS COURSE IS APPROPRIATE FOR FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS.
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HIST 386A THE COLD WAR: US/SOVIET VIEWS
Description: This team taught course investigates the Cold War from both the U.S. and Soviet points of view. Each week, the course will address discrete moments in the developing conflict, starting with World War II and ending with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Central themes will include internal political decision-making, domestic politics and culture, foreign policy, espionage, and military rivalry, as well as political and economic competition. It will use a variety of primary and secondary sources and audio-visual materials. Each week, lectures will alternately be given by an American historian and a Russian historian in order to better prepare students to critically interpret this important era in modern history.
Format: Evaluation for this course will include midterm and final exams, a research paper, and mandatory attendance and participation in both lecture and discussion sections. There may also be periodic quizzes.
Books: The principal text will be the revised edition of John Lewis Gaddis, STRATEGIES OF CONTAINMENT. Other readings will be provided through electronic reserve, on blackboard, or online.
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HIST 386F THE MAKING OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
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HIST 386R CULTURES IN CONFLICT, 1500-1850
Description: This course deals with a wide variety of tensions and hostilities that led to conflict in the centuries between the Reformation and the Revolutions of 1848. The method for doing this is to explore the multiple meanings of the word "culture." Protestant versus Catholic, Spanish versus Aztec, empire versus autonomy, English versus Irish, peasant communities versus monarchical state, European versus Asiatic, secular humanism versus religious faith, liberal democracy versus corporative privilege, proletariat versus bourgeoisie; these are a few of the many cultures in conflict in the period. The defining of difference, the autonomy of culture, and the recourse to violence will be central themes.
Format: Two one-hour lectures and one small-group discussion each week. One mid-term exam, one research paper, and one final exam.
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HIST 386S DISEASE, MEDICINE & EMPIRE
Description: From the "Columbian Exchange" to the cholera epidemics of the mid-nineteenth century, from the slave trade to the "White Man's Grave," from missionary hospitals to schools of tropical medicine, European imperial expansion fostered the spread of disease and promoted the development of medicine. Disease pathogens, medical personnel, drugs and treatments, and scientific ideas, ideologies, and institutions were key components of the complex networks of circulation and exchange wrought by empire. This course will explore the multiple and reciprocal relationships among empire, medicine, and disease as well as provide a perspective on the historical roots of contemporary problems in international health. American medical missionary reports as well as selected anthropological and historical works will form the core readings for this discussion seminar course.
Format: Course requirements will include class participation, reading outlines, a map exercise, a book review, and a final paper. For majors and non-majors with upperclass standing. This course will meet the all-college "G" gen ed requirement.
Books: Megan Vaughan, CURING THEIR ILLS (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1992) ISBN: 0804719713 (paperback); Paul Farmer, PATHOLOGIES OF POWER: HEALTH, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND THE NEW WAR ON THE POOR (University of California Press, [November 1] 2004) ISBN: 0520243269 (paperback)
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HIST 397 INDEPENDENT STUDY
Description: Tutorial or seminar study of special problems that meets needs of advanced students.
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HIST 480D ORAL HISTORIES, 1960-2000
Description: Seminar uses oral history methods to study changes in American society and culture, 1960-2000. Methodologically it compares the use of printed sources and oral history sources. Substantively it examines the emergence of U.S. women's history as a field of academic study. Its main sources are oral history transcriptions of forty-five historians of women who were interviewed in a project that Professor Sklar co-directed, which was funded by the American Association of University Women. The course emphasizes written assignments and seeks to build students' writing skills.
Format: Course grades will be determined as follows: participation in seminar discussions:25%; 3 short (3-5 page) papers:30%; final paper:45%. Can be taken to fulfill C writing requirement. For majors and non-majors. Permission of the instructor required for registration.
Books: Eileen Boris and Nupur Chaudhuri, VOICES OF WOMEN HISTORIANS: THE PERSONAL, THE POLITICAL, THE PROFESSIONAL (Indiana University Press, 1999). ISBN: 0-253-21275-8; Judith P. Zinsser, HISTORY AND FEMINISM: A GLASS HALF FULL (New York: Twayne, 1993). ISBN: 0-8057-9766-1; Sherna Gluck and Daphne Patai, WOMEN'S WORDS: THE FEMINIST PRACTICE OF ORAL HISTORY (New York: Routledge, 1991) ISBN: 0-4159-0372-6).
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HIST 480F READINGS IN AMERICAN STUDIES
Description: Senior seminar explores historians' use of interdisciplinary texts to illuminate what individual disciplines alone may not have the power to illuminate. Race and class formations, for example, stream across disciplinary boundaries in "Waltzing in the Dark: African Americans Vaudeville and Race Poltics in the Swing Era" or "the Great American Orphan Abduction".
Format: Mandatory class attendance, participation; weekly response papers (1-2 pgs.), analytic term paper on themes and readings (15 pages).
Books: Davis, D.B. FROM HOMICIDE TO SLAVERY: STUDIES IN AMERICAN CULTURE (Oxford 0195054180); Kaplan, Amy and Pease, Donald, Eds. CULTURES OF UNITED STATES IMPERIALISM (Duke 082231413-4); Gordon, Linda THE GREAT ARIZONA ORPHAN ABDUCTION, (Harvard); Horowitz, Richard P., Ed. THE AMERICAN STUDIES ANTHOLOGY (SR Books, 084202829-3); Berman, Marshall, ALL THAT IS SOLID MELTS INTO AIR: THE EXPERIENCE OF MODERNITY (Penguin 0140109625; Lipsitz, TIME PASSAGES, COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE (Minnesota 081661806 2); Hochschild, Adam, KING LEOPOLD'S GHOST.
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HIST 480K THE GREAT WHITE HOPE: Writing a History of Whiteness in the U.S.
Description: This course will explore the social construction of race by investigating and historicizing "whiteness" as a racial category in the U.S. Topics include: how and why whiteness was invented; how this category excluded and then included various European immigrants; how whiteness (and white privilege) has been sustained through social, political, economic and legal practices; and how whiteness has been contested by whites and non-whites.
Format: Students will be expected to participate in discussions on each week's readings Challenges the notion of "race" as a biological fact, presents race as a being socially-constructed and historically determined.
Books: Readings include: Theodore Allen, THE INVENTION OF THE WHITE RACE: RACIAL OPPRESSION AND SOCIAL CONTROL; Karen Brodkin, HOW JEWS BECAME WHITE FOLKS AND WHAT THAT SAYS ABOUT RACE IN AMERICA; Jennifer Guglielmo and Salvatore Salerno, eds. ARE ITALIANS WHITE? HOW RACE IS MADE IN AMERICA; Noel Ignatiev, HOW THE IRISH BECAME WHITE; Matthew Frye Jacobson, WHITENESS OF A DIFFERENT COLOR: EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS AND THE ALCHEMY OF RACE; George Lipsitz, THE POSSESSIVE INVESTMENT IN WHITENESS; David Roediger, THE WAGES OF WHITENESS.
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HIST 480P SEXUALITY IN U.S. HISTORY
Description: This course examines four hundred years of sexualities in the regions that currently make up the United States. Among the select topics covered are reproduction, fertility, birth control, and abortion; prostitution, pornography, and commercialized sex; and same-sex and cross-sex sexualities. We explore the importance of sexuality in history; the relationship between sexuality and class, ethnicity, gender identity, race, religion, and sex; and the ways in which the study of sexuality offers opportunities to re-think major themes in U.S. social, cultural, and political history.
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HIST 480T THE COLD WAR AT HOME
Description: This course will focus on the American domestic experience during the Cold War. Each week, the course will address themes (the Cold War family, civil defense, espionage, anti-Communist crusades, civil rights) that contextualize how different Americans experienced the Cold War. It will use a variety of primary and secondary sources and audio-visual materials. Students will be required to develop a research project that will form the basis of their final papers.
Format: Evaluation for this course will two shorter papers, a final research paper, and mandatory attendance and participation in the weekly seminars. This course satisfies the history department requirement for a research seminar for History majors and minors.
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HIST 482E WOMEN, MEN, AND GENDER IN LATIN AMERICA
Description: This seminar examines gender in Latin American history and how it intersects with sexuality, race, and class. We will analyze texts by and about diverse women and men from the colonial period to the twentieth century, as well as some comparative and theoretical works. We will read secondary sources and some first-person accounts for the first two-thirds of the semester. During that period, students will identify topics and sources for research projects and write short historiographical papers. The last part of the semester will be spent researching, drafting, presenting, and revising independent research papers based in part on primary source documents.
Format: Small advanced seminar meets weekly; active participation required.
Books: (tentative): Johnson and Lippsett-Rivera, THE FACES OF HONOR; French and James, THE GENDERED WORLDS OF LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN WORKERS; James, DONA MARIA'S STORY; additional books, articles, documents and chapters TBD.
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HIST 484B SEMINAR: HEALTH, DISEASE, AND MEDICINE IN SOUTH ASIA
Description: How has the classical Indian system of medicine called Ayurveda traveled and adapted to changing historical contexts? Why was the British plague commissioner assassinated during the frightening plague epidemic of the late 1890s? Have the victims of the Bhopal disaster, one of the worst industrial accidents in history, received compensation from Union Carbide, Dow Chemical, or the Indian government? Why have Indian feminists critiqued new reproductive technologies? This course will examine health, disease, and medicine in South Asia in their relations to economic, political, and cultural history. We will explore Ayurveda, Unani, homeopathy, and Western biomedicine as distinctive yet evolving cultural systems of healing; the ways in which Indian bodies became central to British political authority and Indian nationalist assertion during the period of colonial rule; the impact of colonialism and capitalism on such intimate matters as childbirth and aging; the influence of gender, race, class, caste, and religion on disease patterns and access to medical services; and the role of social movements organized around health issues. Excerpts from classical Ayurvedic texts and British medical missionary reports as well as selected anthropological and historical works will form the core readings for this discussion seminar course.
Format: One discussion session per week. Requirements will include two critical reaction papers of 2-3 pages, class presentations, a 5-6 page midterm paper, and a longer 12-page final paper on a topic of the student's choice. The course meets the writing "C" requirement.
Books: Dominik Wujastyk, THE ROOTS OF AYURVEDA: SELECTIONS FROM SANSKRIT MEDICAL WRITINGS; David Arnold, COLONIZING THE BODY: STATE MEDICINE AND EPIDEMIC DISEASE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY INDIA; Jean Langford, FLUENT BODIES: AYURVEDIC REMEDIES FOR POSTCOLONIAL IMBALANCE; Kim Fortun, ADVOCACY AFTER BHOPAL: ENVIRONMENTALISM, DISASTER, NEW GLOBAL ORDERS.
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HIST 486G SLAVERY & THE SLAVE TRADE
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HIST 486S PUBLIC HEALTH, SOCIETY & STATE
Description: Helps students understand the changing relationships among public health practices, society and the state, from the Industrial Revolution and the liberal sanitarians, to early-20th-century concerns with reproduction and eugenics, to the global plagues of late modernity. Considers how notions of population, statistical methods and the germ theory of disease were incorporated into public health beliefs, practices and rhetoric. For undergraduate majors and non-majors and graduate majors (graduate non-majors by consent only).
Format: Seminar. Grade determined as follows: Undergraduates: seminar presentation, 20%; first paper, 20%; final paper, 40%; class participation, 10%; three un-graded response papers 10%. Graduates: same except first paper, 10%; book review 10%.
Books: Books Include: Tomes, THE GOSPEL OF GERMS; Gandy and Zumia, THE RETURN OF THE WHITE PLAGUE; Paul, CONTROLLING HUMAN HEREDITY; Farmer, INFECTIONS AND INEQUALITIES; Bordelais, EPIDEMICS LAID LOW; Humphreys, YELLOW FEVER AND THE SOUTH; Engel, THE EPIDEMIC: A GLOBAL HISTORY OF AID.
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HIST 486V COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS: EUROPE AND THE MAKING OF LATIN AMERICA
Description: The "long 16th century" (1450-1650) marked the beginning of the extension of European political and economy hegemony over the globe and the making of a European world economy. During this period, Latin America became the first zone incorporated into the European world economy. This process marked the collision of two worlds that were radically foreign to one another. Europe's discovery of its "New World" brought it into contact with the vast and geographically diverse spaces of the Americas and with peoples and cultures whose existence it had never imagined. For inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere, the arrival of Europeans was an event originating outside their world. With it, they experienced the shock of the intrusion of people, institutions, beliefs and practices for which they could have no reference. These profoundly different civilizations came into conflict under highly unequal conditions. The colonial power of Spain and Portugal sought to impose new forms of political organization, systems of belief, social domination and economic activity, and undermined indigenous institutions. Yet, if their civilizations collapsed and their world turned upside down, indigenous peoples -- as well as the African slaves imported to the Americas as part or the colonizing project -- continued to interpret, adapt to and resist these new conditions. Course examines how the encounter of Spanish and Portuguese colonialism with its Indian and African subject populations created this "New World." With special attention to Mexico, Central America, Peru, and Brazil, it focuses on law, religion, land and labor in order to better understand how integration into the European world economy created the diverse societies, new ethnic identities and social subjects of Latin America.
Format: Seminar. Grade based on research paper and one to two short exercises as appropriate, class participation and presentations
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HIST 498 HONORS THESIS I
Description: Honors essay for seniors, under supervision of faculty member.
Format: N/A
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Prerequisite: Consent of department's director of undergraduate studies and instructor.
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HIST 499 HONORS THESIS II
Description: Honors essay for seniors, under supervision of faculty member.
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Prerequisite: Consent of department's director of undergraduate studies and instructor.
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HIST 501D HISTORY FROM BELOW
Description: The goal is to examine the histories of non-elite groups from a comparative, global perspective during the past 200 years. We begin by exploring the concepts of labor and gender history, as well as subaltern studies and history from below. We then proceed to examine a number of works drawn from various global areas including the Middle East, Europe, South Asia, as well as North and South America. Students will write an analytical paper on a topic of their choice. Such topics could include: women in the Bengali workforce, worker peasants in Europe, the utility of subaltern studies for Ottoman history or comparing history from below in US and Latin American history writing. In the end, the choice is yours, in consultation with me.
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Books: READINGS may include: SUBALTERNS AND SOCIAL PROTEST: HISTORY FROM BELOW IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA, edited by Stephanie Cronin; Gabriel Piterberg, ¿Can a Subaltern Remember?¿ in MEMORY AND VIOLENCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA, edited by Ussama Makdisi and Paul A. Silverstein; Mary S. Hartman, THE HOUSEHOLD AND THE MAKING OF HISTORY: A SUBVERSIVE VIEW OF THE WESTERN PAST; David Brion Davis, INHUMAN BONDAGE. THE RISE AND FALL OF SLAVERY IN THE NEW WORLD; READINGS BY OR ABOUT E.P. THOMPSON; Jean H. Quataert, ¿Combining Agrarian and Industrial Livelihoods: Rural Households in the Saxon Oberlausitz in the Nineteenth Century¿; and, one or two readings from early works in subaltern studies.
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HIST 501W PUBLIC HEALTH, SOCIETY & STATE
Description: Helps students understand the changing relationships among public health practices, society and the state, from the Industrial Revolution and the liberal sanitarians, to early-20th-century concerns with reproduction and eugenics, to the global plagues of late modernity. Considers how notions of population, statistical methods and the germ theory of disease were incorporated into public health beliefs, practices and rhetoric. For undergraduate majors and non-majors and graduate majors (graduate non-majors by consent only).
Format: Seminar. Grade determined as follows: Undergraduates: seminar presentation, 20%; first paper, 20%; final paper, 40%; class participation, 10%; three un-graded response papers 10%. Graduates: same except first paper, 10%; book review 10%.
Books: Books Include: Tomes, THE GOSPEL OF GERMS; Gandy and Zumia, THE RETURN OF THE WHITE PLAGUE; Paul, CONTROLLING HUMAN HEREDITY; Farmer, INFECTIONS AND INEQUALITIES; Bordelais, EPIDEMICS LAID LOW; Humphreys, YELLOW FEVER AND THE SOUTH; Engel, THE EPIDEMIC: A GLOBAL HISTORY OF AID.
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HIST 511C ORAL HISTORIES: 1960-2000
Description: Seminar uses oral history methods to study changes in American society and culture, 1960-2000. Methodologically it compares the use of printed sources and oral history sources. Substantively it examines the emergence of U.S. women's history as a field of academic study. Its main sources are oral history transcriptions of forty-five historians of women who were interviewed in a project that Professor Sklar co-directed, which was funded by the American Association of University Women. The course emphasizes written assignments and seeks to build students' writing skills.
Format: Course grades will be determined as follows: participation in seminar discussions:25%; 3 short (3-5 page) papers:30%; final paper:45%. Can be taken to fulfill advanced writing requirement. For majors and non-majors. Permission of the instructor required for registration in this course.
Books: Eileen Boris and Nupur Chaudhuri, VOICES OF WOMEN HISTORIANS: THE PERSONAL, THE POLITICAL, THE PROFESSIONAL (Indiana University Press, 1999). ISBN: 0-253-21275-8; Judith P. Zinsser, HISTORY AND FEMINISM: A GLASS HALF FULL (New York: Twayne, 1993). ISBN: 0-8057-9766-1; Sherna Gluck and Daphne Patai, WOMEN'S WORDS: THE FEMINIST PRACTICE OF ORAL HISTORY (New York: Routledge, 1991) ISBN: 0-4159-0372-6).
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HIST 530A ISSUES:US HISTORY BEFORE 1877
Description: This is one of two central content courses for students earning a graduate certificate in the teaching of American history. The course offers exposure to selected interpretive issues in U.S. history prior to 1877 within a framework that permits students to focus on ways to introduce these issues into the secondary school classroom. Readings will permit students to examine alternative interpretations of events and processes in U.S. history and to work extensively with primary sources that underpin those interpretations. Our discussions of course material will be supplemented by computing technologies. Class meetings are in a room equipped for wireless access, and laptop computers will be provided for student use during class time. A significant portion of class time will be used for collaborative analysis and evaluation of Internet-based collections of primary documents, with a special emphasis on integrating such documents into secondary school history education. Notes: Students should have a solid background in U.S. history before registering. EDUC 508/530B is the second half of this two-course sequence and it will be offered in the spring semester.
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HIST 532K THE GREAT WHITE HOPE
Description: This course will explore the social construction of race by investigating and historicizing "whiteness" as a racial category in the U.S. Topics include: how and why whiteness was invented; how this category excluded and then included various European immigrants; how whiteness (and white privilege) has been sustained through social, political, economic and legal practices; and how whiteness has been contested by whites and non-whites.
Format: Students will be expected to participate in discussions on each week's readings Challenges the notion of "race" as a biological fact, presents race as a being socially-constructed and historically determined.
Books: Readings include: Theodore Allen, THE INVENTION OF THE WHITE RACE: RACIAL OPPRESSION AND SOCIAL CONTROL; Karen Brodkin, HOW JEWS BECAME WHITE FOLKS AND WHAT THAT SAYS ABOUT RACE IN AMERICA; Jennifer Guglielmo and Salvatore Salerno, eds. ARE ITALIANS WHITE? HOW RACE IS MADE IN AMERICA; Noel Ignatiev, HOW THE IRISH BECAME WHITE; Matthew Frye Jacobson, WHITENESS OF A DIFFERENT COLOR: EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS AND THE ALCHEMY OF RACE; George Lipsitz, THE POSSESSIVE INVESTMENT IN WHITENESS; David Roediger, THE WAGES OF WHITENESS.
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HIST 533D GENDER & WORKING CLASS HISTORY
Description: Since the appearance of Joan Scott's noted work, GENDER AND THE POLITICS OF HISTORY (1988), the fields of gender history and labor history have evolved together. This course will explore their mutual influence on one another through a survey of gendered dimensions of United States working-class history over almost twenty years.
Format: Students will write two book reviews and a lengthy historiographical paper over the course of the term. Course is suitable for students in other geographical fields hoping to develop a comparative field for comprehensive exams.
Books: Readings will include Mary Blewett, MEN, WOMEN, AND WORK, Cindy Sondik Aron, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF THE CIVIL SERVICE, Susan Porter Benson, COUNTER CULTURES, Dorothy Sue Cobble, THE OTHER WOMEN'S MOVEMENT and other recent works.
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HIST 540L U. S. HISTORY SEMINAR
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HIST 551F CONVERSION IN THE WEST
Description: ¬¬This seminar will address the portrayal and the changing significance of conversion in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Starting with interactions between pagan, Christian, and Jewish communities in the Middle East and North Africa, we will discuss attitudes toward sycnretism, proselytism, interfaith relations, and the afterlife. In the second part of the course, we will follow the spread of Christianity and its institutionalization within the borders of the Roman empire as well as its impact on newcomers who entered its frontiers as pagans, heretics and Catholics. We will spend the last part of the semester discussing the role of monasticism and missions, ideology and religious intolerance between Christians, Jews, and Muslims, and the problems of primary sources in dealing with these issues. Graduate students from outside the history department are highly encouraged to participate.
Format: Course grades will be based on two short essays (15% each), one research essay of 15-20 pages (50%); class participation (20%).
Books: Brown, THE RISE OF WESTERN CHRISTENDOM; Edwards, trans., CONSTANTINE AND CHRISTENDOM; Moorehead, trans., VICTOR OF VITA, HISTORY OF THE VANDAL PERSECUTION; Tilley, trans., DONATIST MARTYR STORIES; Wolf, trans., CONQUERORS AND CHRONCLERS OF EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN; Wood, A MISSIONARY LIFE, and other works on reserve and the internet.
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HIST 552A RENAISSANCE VENICE
Description: This course is a graduate seminar which concentrates on the fortunes of the Republic between the age of Marco Polo and the age of Antonio Vivaldi. It is an exercise in "total history" over the "long perspective" of the period. The successive stages of study will involve attention to population changes, economic structures and their social reflection, politics, religious mentalities and cultural achievement and concentrated attention on historical concepts such as "decline" and "myth" - all with a comparative dimension.
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Books: Martin and Romano (eds.), VENICE RECONSIDERED; Lane, VENICE. A MARITIME REPUBLIC; Chambers, IMPERIAL AGE OF VENICE; Crouzet Pavan, VENICE: HORIZONS OF A MYTH; Chambers and Pullan (eds.), VENICE: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
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Prerequisite: This is a course for graduate students.
Corequisite: A background in medieval, Renaissance or "early modern" history may be an advantage.
HIST 560K THE MODERN EUROPEAN CITY
Description: This seminar considers urbanism and modernity in the late 19th and 20th centuries in Europe, with particular focus on Paris, Berlin and Russia's two capitals (Moscow and St. Petersburg). The course compares and contrasts new approaches to urban history, particularly Marxist and cultural/post-structuralist approaches to the analysis of urban space. Students will become acquainted with the methodological problems facing historians who wish to use "the city" as the object or site for analysis.
Format: Weekly seminar. Students must make an oral presentation and submit a historiographical paper.
Books: Berman, ALL THAT IS SOLID MELTS; Harvey, PARIS: CAPITAL OF MODERNITY; Schwartz, SPECTACULAR REALITIES; Buckler, MAPPING ST. PETERSBURG; Nemes, ONCE AND FUTURE BUDAPEST; Jelavich, BERLIN CABARET; Cohen and Hylton, LE CORBUSIER AND THE MYSTIQUE; Hoffman, PEASANT METROPOLIS; Reid and Crowley, SOCIALIST SPACES; Funck and Chickering, ENDANGERED CITIES; Ladd, GHOSTS OF BERLIN; Harvey, CONDITION OF POSTMODERNITY.
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HIST 576D HEALTH & DISEASE IN SOUTH ASIA
Description: How has the classical Indian system of medicine called Ayurveda traveled and adapted to changing historical contexts? Why was the British plague commissioner assassinated during the frightening plague epidemic of the late 1890s? Have the victims of the Bhopal disaster, one of the worst industrial accidents in history, received compensation from Union Carbide, Dow Chemical, or the Indian government? Why have Indian feminists critiqued new reproductive technologies? This course will examine health, disease, and medicine in South Asia in their relations to economic, political, and cultural history. We will explore Ayurveda, Unani, homeopathy, and Western biomedicine as distinctive yet evolving cultural systems of healing; the ways in which Indian bodies became central to British political authority and Indian nationalist assertion during the period of colonial rule; the impact of colonialism and capitalism on such intimate matters as childbirth and aging; the influence of gender, race, class, caste, and religion on disease patterns and access to medical services; and the role of social movements organized around health issues. Excerpts from classical Ayurvedic texts and British medical missionary reports as well as selected anthropological and historical works will form the core readings for this discussion seminar course.
Format: One discussion session per week. Requirements will include two critical reaction papers of 2-3 pages, class presentations, a 5-6 page midterm paper, and a longer 12-page final paper on a topic of the student¿s choice.
Books: Dominik Wujastyk, THE ROOTS OF AYURVEDA: SELECTIONS FROM SANSKRIT MEDICAL WRITINGS; David Arnold, COLONIZING THE BODY: STATE MEDICINE AND EPIDEMIC DISEASE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY INDIA; Jean Langford, FLUENT BODIES: AYURVEDIC REMEDIES FOR POSTCOLONIAL IMBALANCE; Kim Fortun, ADVOCACY AFTER BHOPAL: ENVIRONMENTALISM, DISASTER, NEW GLOBAL ORDERS.
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HIST 592 HISTORIOGRAPHY
Description: The course is designed to provide you with an efficient road map through the complexities of contemporary historical practice and theory. For that purpose we shift gears several times during the semester, combining short summaries with in-depth analyses. We deal summarily with historiographical surveys of the discipline and the major historiographical traditions of the 20th century. Then we will engage more closely with the postmodern challenges to historical writing and, even more important, with the answers that historians have formulated in response to these challenges. These answers have been developed on two different levels. On the one hand, historians have tried to conceptualize their work and provide theoretical responses to the theoretical challenges of their critics. In these efforts, doing battle on foreign soil, historians have not been very successful. On the other hand, historians have responded to the challenges in practice, i.e., in their writing of history. In these endeavors they have been extraordinarily successful and we will study them quite carefully. In short, course should jump-start your career as a professional historian, provide you with a clear idea of what is expected from you in this profession and help you develop a set of philosophical-methodological guidelines to ground your future research, writing and teaching.
Format: Grade based on historiographical term paper and 20- to 25-minute, in-class presentation.
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HIST 597 INDEPENDENT STUDY (MA)
Description: Reading course for history graduate students at the master's level.
Format: To be determined between faculty member and student.
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HIST 599 MASTER'S THESIS
Description: Master's thesis for MA-level students, under supervision of faculty member.
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HIST 600N RESEARCH SEMINAR IN HISTORY
Description: This course is intended to guide students in original scholarly research. It could lead to a paper suitable for submission to an academic journal, but this is a high expectation. More realistically, this seminar should take students through the process of refining their dissertation topics and writing the basis of a chapter. Therefore, students will be required to immerse themselves in the relevant secondary literature and locate and use primary sources. This is a departmental course for which I am the instructor of record. However, students' mentors should be at least as involved in their project as I will be. This means that students will need to impress upon their mentors the importance of timely meetings and written responses to the various stages of their projects. Final papers will be presented and critiqued at a one-day colloquium at the end of the semester.
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HIST 697 INDEPENDENT STUDY (PHD)
Description: Reading course for history graduate students at the PhD level.
Format: To be determined between faculty member and student.
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HIST 698 PRE-DISSERTATION RESEARCH
Description: Independent reading and/or research in preparation for comprehensive examinations for admission to PhD candidacy and/or preparation of dissertation prospectus.
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HIST 699 DISSERTATION
Description: Research for and preparation of the dissertation.
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HIST 700 CONTINUOUS REGISTRATION
Description: Required for maintenance of matriculated status in graduate program. No credit toward graduate degree requirements.
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HIST 707 RESEARCH SKILLS
Description: Development of research skills required within graduate programs. May not be applied toward course credits for any graduate degree.
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Prerequisite: Approval of relevant graduate program directors or department chairs.
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