HISTORY FALL 2001 COURSE ATLAS

History 190-000: Freshman Colloquium: Warriors at Peace

Ravina

CANCELLED

History 190-001: Freshman Seminar: Sugar & Slaves (Same as AAS 190)

FRESHMEN ONLY

Mann; MAX:9; WRT: Old System: No; New System: No

Content: European expansion into the Americas after 1492 made possible increased production of sugar and other staples to satisfy changing patterns of consumption in the Old World. Production of many of these commodities took place on plantations and employed the labor of African slaves. This course draws on history, literature, film, and art history to probe the reasons for the rise of slavery in the New World, and its impact on Africa and the Americas, focusing especially on the experiences of the slaves.

Texts: Mintz, Sweetness and Power; Eltis, et. al., The DuBois Consolidated Slave Trade Database; Klein, The Atlantic Slave Trade; Northrup, The Atlantic Slave Trade; The Life of Olaudah Equiano; Schwartz, Slaves, Peasants, Rebels; Lovejoy, Transformations in Slavery; Gomez, Exchanging their Country Marks; "Amistad"

Particulars: Students will keep a journal in which they record reactions to readings and reflections on them. Each will write multiple drafts of two critical papers. Class participation is expected. Grades: journal (25%), papers (25% each), class participation (25%). This course fulfills General Education Requirement IC (Freshman Seminar).

History 190-002: Freshman Seminar: History of the American West

FRESHMEN ONLY

Allitt; MAX:12

Content: The class will study the history of the American trans-Mississippi West between Lewis and Clark's expedition of 1804-1806 and the official "closing of the frontier" in 1890. Themes include: exploration, wars against Mexico and the Indians, cowboys, railroads, emigrant trains, the Gold Rush, and homesteading the Great Plains. The course will also compare the historical record to myths about the West by studying novels, films, and displays (such as Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show) to see where twentieth century ideas about the West are realistic and where they have become fantasy.

Texts: To be announced.

Particulars: This freshman seminar emphasizes student participation, and two thirds of the course grade will be based on it. There will be five short paper assignments (4 pages each) and a final. Students will be required to prepare readings for each week's class and to watch a total of five specified films--screening times and places will be arranged to fit class members' schedules once the course has begun. This course fulfills General Education Requirement I.C. (Freshman Seminar).

History 190-003: Freshman Seminar: America & Europe, 1776-2000

FRESHMEN ONLY

Harbutt; MAX:12

Content: We will explore a range of relationships (politico-economic, cultural, intellectual, etc.) between the U.S. and Europe, 1776-2000. It is, clearly, a significant subject, one that has inspired thousands of specialized historical studies. But most of these are focused on distinct nation states or narrow issues. America and Europe are only rarely brought together in the more fully rounded sense we will develop here of two associated and comparable arenas/systems/civilizations (we will have to work toward a satisfactory definition) whose collisions, competitions, collaborations and exchanges have materially (and emotionally) shaped each other and the modern world.

Texts: Texts will include Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution; Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America; H. Stuart Hughes, The Sea Change: The Migration of Social Thought 1930-1965; Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad; Richard Pells, Not Like Us: How Europeans have loved, hated and transformed American culture since World War II; Graham Greene, The Quiet American and Malcolm Bradbury, Changing Places.

Particulars: Various short writing exercises. A final, substantive paper. This course fulfills General Education Requirement IC (Freshman Seminar).

History 190-004: Freshman Seminar: Historical Imagination

Bellesiles

CANCELLED

History 190-005: Freshman Seminar: History of European Cities

FRESHMEN ONLY

Beik; MAX: 12

Content: The cities of Europe provide living evidence of the development of European society. This course will be an extended discussion of how to think about historical cities, how to evaluate them, and what we can learn from them. Emphasizing the long period from 1000 to 1900, we will explore the implications of the transformation from cathedral and castle towns, to centers of culture, to industrial powerhouses. Along the way we will think about urban planning, artistic values, social systems, and historical development. This would be a good course for anyone interested in European travel, culture, or history. We will use a variety of historical materials including slides, videos, and literary works.

Texts: We will use Mark Girouard, Cities and People as a basic text, supplemented by other readings.

Particulars: No exams. Grades will be based on four or five short essays (1/3 together), a longer paper (1/3) and class participation (1/3). There will be many opportunities for class participation. This course fulfills General Education Requirement IC (Freshman Seminar).

History 190-006: Freshman Seminar: Medicine in the Age of Plague

FRESHMEN ONLY

Strocchia; MAX: 12; WRT: No

Content: In 1348 Europe was ravaged by a deadly epidemic: the bubonic plague or "Black Death." Over the next three centuries Europeans confronted the challenges posed by repeated onslaughts of plague and other "new," virulent diseases like syphilis. How did they understand and respond to these epidemics and afflictions? How did medicine emerge as a distinctive body of knowledge and as a profession during this period? How did physicians and other medical practitioners, including apothecaries, wise women, and folk healers, understand and treat various health problems? This course examines the history of medicine from around 1300 to 1700, when plague gradually disappeared in Europe. We will explore various topics such as new ways of examining and treating the human body, including the "medical Renaissance" of the sixteenth century; the religious and cultural significance of disease; concepts of health and wellness; gender differences among patients and practitioners; and the development of hospitals and a public health system. What can we learn about our own responses to epidemics like AIDS, STDs, and Ebola from the past?

Texts: Readings will emphasize primary sources, such as Boccaccio, The Decameron; Daniel Defoe, Journal of a Plague Year; Fracastoro, Syphilis; Sister Bartolomea Riccoboni, Life and Death in a Venetian Convent; as well as personal letters, physicians' case reports, popular medical tracts, and anatomical drawings. Secondary works like Nancy Siraisi, Medieval and Renaissance Medicine, will frame and guide our reading of sources.

Particulars: Students will be required to contribute to weekly electronic discussions (LearnLink) as well as class discussions. Two or three short papers (3-4 pp) plus one longer, final essay (about 12 pp). No exams. This course fulfills General Education Requirement IC (Freshman Seminar).

History 201: The Formation of European Society: From Late Antiquity through the Early Modern Era

[Formerly History 101: History of Western Civilization I]

000; Hancock; MAX:40
001; Patterson; MAX:35
002; Melton; MAX:40
003; Rosenberg; MAX:40
004; Billado; MAX:40

Content: This course examines the early forms of those societies that came to dominate the European continent and explores their expansion and influence. The emergence of Europe as a geo-political entity with distinctive customs, culture, legal structures, and social arrangements is analyzed. Basic themes and goals of the course: to provide a framework for understanding European society, politics and culture in a chronological perspective; to introduce students to values and analytical tools of the era and to reveal the uses and abuses of the past within it; to see pre-modern European societies as complex human systems with negative as well as positive effects upon themselves as well as others; to better understand the interrelated histories of local communities, regional communities, kingdoms, and principalities, and within them changes in methods of personal and group classification on the basis of legal status, social class, gender, religious identity and ethnicity; to explore the Christianization of Europe both institutionally and culturally and its implications for Jews, Muslims and heretics.

Texts: To be announced.

Particulars: Generally there will be two one-hour examinations and a final examination. Discussion will be an integral part of the course.

History 202: The Making of Modern Europe: Old Regime to the Present

[Formerly History 102: History of Western Civilization II]

000; Silliman; MAX:40
001; Blaich; MAX:40
002; Enright; MAX:40
003; Grieco; MAX:40
004; Enright; MAX:40

Content: This course examines major themes in European history during the modern era, roughly mid-seventeenth century to the present. Beyond offering a chronological survey of the wars, revolutions, and political ideologies that have shaped modern history, the course pays special attention to the tensions and conflicts that surrounded changes in economic, political, social and intellectual life. The course further provides a basis for comparing the European and the non-European world, on both the political and the cultural level. The goal is to deepen students' appreciation of historical contexts through literary and philosophical texts, and thus to introduce students to the activity of being an historian.

Texts: To be announced.

Particulars: Generally there will be two one-hour examinations and a final examination. Discussion is an integral part of the course.

History 231: Foundations of American Society

[Formerly History 131: US History to 1877]

000; Sylvester; MAX:40
001; Latimore; MAX:40

Content: This course explores the early development of American society and politics as well as how historians have attempted to explain this process. By studying how our society has come to be what it is, students will gain a deeper understanding of their own social context and themselves. The course follows the development of American society from tentative beginnings of the Reconstruction era. Special emphasis is given to certain critical periods and key developments: the founding of the English colonies, the colonies in the 18th century, the American Revolution, the Constitution, the Federal era, Jackson and "Jacksonian Democracy," slavery and expansion, re-union and reconstruction.

History 232: The Making of Modern America: United States History since 1877

[Formerly History 132: US History from 1877 to the present]

000; Conner; MAX:40
001; Widell; MAX:40

History 241: History & Text: The Americanization of Europe

Schumann; MAX:25; WRT: Old System: Yes; New System: No

Content: Since the end of the 19th century Europeans have been fascinated by American "modernity" . This course will focus on how this fascination translated into a change of European cultures after the Second World War. "Americanization", however, did not mean that ideas and institutions were directly transferred to Europe -- rather, Europeans adapted "things American" for their own purposes. This triggered intense debates about national, gender and generational identities. The course will examine these processes and debates by drawing upon various texts and visual sources.

Texts: will include Fehrenbach/Poiger, Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations; Kuisel, Seducing the French; Poiger, Jazz, Rock, and Rebels; Reynolds, Rich Relations.

Requirements: class discussion (30%); 3 short analytical papers (15% each); a take-home final exam (25%).

History 242: American Jewish History (Same as JS 242)

Goldstein; MAX:30

Content: This course is a survey of the Jewish experience in America, examining the religious, cultural, political and economic activities of American Jews from the colonial period to the present. Students will explore how Jewish tradition has adapted to and been challenged by the American setting, how patterns of communal life have been reshaped, what the relationship of Jews has been to other Americans and to the international Jewish community, and how American Jewish identities have been created from Jews' dual impulses for integration and distinctiveness.

Texts: Possible texts for this course include: Jonathan D. Sarna, ed., The American Jewish Experience; Rose Cohen, Out of the Shadow: A Russian Jewish Girlhood on the Lower East Side; Deborah Dash Moore, To the Golden Cities: Pursuing the American Jewish Dream in Miami and L.A.; Samuel Heilman, Portrait of American Jews: Last Half of the Twentieth Century; Lisa Schiffman, Generation J; and a number of articles on e-reserve.

Particulars: Class sessions will combine lecture and discussion and also include regular "breakout sessions" that emphasize the close reading of primary sources. There will be two mid-term exams and a final, as well as several short response papers. This course satisfies area V.A. of the General Education Requirements (Historical, Cultural, and International Perspectives: United States History).

History 285-000: Topics in Historical Analysis: Studies in the African Tradition (Same as IDS 263 & AFS 263)

Bay; MAX:10

SEE IDS

History 285: Topics in Historical Analysis: Legal Thought in the American Republic

Curtis

Content: This course is designed as a survey of legal thought in America during the formative decades of self-government. It commences with an introduction and analysis of the legal pillars of the American experiment in self-government: the English Common Law, the idea of a written constitution, an independent judiciary, and the idea of natural rights. The course then examines the interplay between law and society, focusing principally on how jurists struggled to reconcile the essential consistency of the former with the rapidly changing demands of the latter during the nineteenth century. The course will consist of lecture and discussion sessions. Lectures provide the requisite contextual information while students regularly participate in critical discussions of primary source readings. Significant works of legal history will serve to introduce students to major issues of the period and they will complete short writing assignments on each of the assigned readings. Students will be required to write a short research paper that examines the legal thought of a significant jurist on a specific area

History 304: The New Europe, 300-1000 AD

Burns; MAX:40

Content: This course surveys the "Dark Ages" from the reign of emperor Constantine the Great through the era of the Viking Invasions. During these centuries the medieval world evolved from its Roman, Christian and Germanic barbarian roots. We study the civilization of western Europe through a multi-faceted approach using literature from the period in translation, slides of archaeology, as well as modern scholarship. The unwary student may find himself cheering for the barbarians in their battles with forces visible and imagined.

Texts: Possible texts include: Roger Collins, Early Medieval Europe, 300-100; Thomas S. Burns, History of the Ostrogoths; Hugh Elton, Warfare in Roman Europe, AD 350-425; Caroline White, Early Christian Lives; Chris Wickham, Early Medieval Italy; Katherine Drew, Lombard Laws; Paul Dutton, Carolingian Civilization: A Reader; Pierre Riche, Daily Life in the World of Charlemagne; Ammianus Marcellinus, The Later Roman Empire.

Particulars: Optional midterm and/or paper, plus final exam. The student may write an 8-10 page research paper on a topic of his choice. Grading: Midterm 30%, paper 30% (one or both), final exam 40-70% depending upon options taken in regard to paper and midterm. Class discussion will assist in the determination of marginal grades.

History 307: Europe Reformation to Enlightenment

Beik

CANCELLED

History 310: Europe in the Era of Total War, 1900-1945

Amdur; MAX:35; WRT: Old System: Yes; New System: No

Content: This course examines twentieth-century European history, to 1945, with an emphasis on the social and cultural transformations wrought by two world wars, the emergence of left- and right-wing totalitarian dictatorships, and the origins of contemporary problems of European politics and society.

Texts: Prospective readings include the following: Felix Gilbert, The End of the European Era; Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa; Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory; Omer Bartov, Murder in our Midst; The Holocaust and Industrial Killing; Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon; Margaret Higonnet et al., Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars.

Particulars: Grading will be based primarily on a midterm and a final exam, and to a lesser extent on class participation. No term paper is required, but short essays based on class readings may be assigned.

History 312: Medieval & Renaissance England: England from the Black Death to the Age of Elizabeth

Rosenberg; MAX:35

Content: This class covers the history of England in a period noted both for ecological catastrophe and the ravages caused by over-mighty lords. This period is also known for more positive achievements, including most notably the Protestant Reformation and the splendor of Elizabethan culture. The first half of this course will bring you up to speed with English history from 1350 to about 1550. Topics will include the impact of the plague, the Hundred Years War, the War of the Roses, and the Break with Rome under Henry VIII. In the second half of the class we will concentrate on the Elizabethan Age itself: women as rulers (Mary Tudor, Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I), the colonization of Ireland, the impact of Reformation, the Elizabethan “underworld,” social uprisings, foreign ventures, theater, and the making of English nationhood.

Texts: Maurice Keen, English Society in the Later Middle Ages; Alan G.R. Smith, The Emergence of a Nation State (first half); plus selections from Froissart’s Chronicles; Thomas More’s Utopia; Sir Henry Sidney’s View of the State of Ireland; Fox’s Book of Martyrs; John Awdeley’s, The Fraternity of Vagabonds; Shakespeare’s Richard III; and Sir Walter Raleigh’s Voyages.

Particulars: This course combines lectures and discussion. We will also be viewing a few movies (Looking for Richard, Elizabeth, and Shakespeare in Love). Assignments: reading quizzes, in-class mid-term, final exam, a book review, and participation. No permission needed. Prior exposure to European history before 1600 is desirable. This class is listed as pre-1600 for the purposes of history distribution requirements.

History 318: Modern Germany

Fehrenbach; MAX:40

Content: This course explores major problems in modern German history from 1870 to the present. A central theme will be the changing definitions of "nation" during the dramatically altered historical contexts of imperial state building, the world wars, military occupation, the cold war and political division, through (re)unification. Topics will include the politics of national unification and citizenship; working class and gender identities; mass culture and modernity; war experiences; racism; National Socialism; the Holocaust and its representation; postwar reconstruction in both Germanies; political stability and the possibilities of protest; identity politics, and the role of historical memory in contemporary Germany.

Texts: Bessel, Germany after the First World War; Fritzsche, Germans into Nazis; Kaplan, Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany; Bartov, Hitler's Army; Marrus, The Holocaust in History; Poiger, Jazz, Rock, and Rebels: Cold War Politics and American Culture in Divided Germany; Philipsen, We were the People: Voices from East Germany's Revolutionary Autumn.
Films: Kuhle Wampe; The Prodigal Son; Shoah (excerpts); The Murderers are Among Us.

Particulars: Participation in class discussion; midterm and final exams; one 8-10 page paper.

History 336: U.S. Women's Multicultural History (Same as WS 336)

Odem; MAX:25

Content: This course explores the history of women's work, family, and political lives in industrializing and modern America, from 1820-1980. The readings draw on both secondary and primary sources to examine women's experiences within the context of larger historical changes in the United States (including the economy, race relations, social and political movements). A major goal of the course is to present women's history both as an integral part of American social history and as a unique subject of historical investigation. We will pay close attention to the class, race, ethnic, and regional differences among women. Students will learn to think and write critically about historical arguments, as well as to understand the difference that gender makes in history and the differences among women's historical experiences.

Hist.385-000: Special Topics in History: South Asian Politics since 1945

Creekmore

History 338: History of African Americans to 1865 (Same as AAS 338)

Davis; MAX:30; WRT: Old System: Yes; New System: No

Content: This course reconstructs the collective experiences of African peoples beginning in the 15th century through the end of the American Civil War in 1865. Though we begin in Africa, the majority of the course focuses on the experiences of African Americans in what became the United States, both slave and free, North and South. This experience is examined within the context of the national political-economy, the interracial and intraracial experiences of other African peoples in the Western Hemisphere at approximately the same time. We also look at American social and intellectual developments that sometimes hindered and other times helped to facilitate black attempts at self determination.

Texts: Texts will be announced in class.

Particulars: Requirements include mandatory class attendance, a take-home midterm and final examination, response papers and a final 12-page paper. Final grades will also reflect informed and detailed class discussions.

History 340: American Colonial History, 1607-1783

Juricek; MAX:40

Content: An introduction to early American history, with emphasis on the evolution of the basic structures -- constitutional, political, economic, social, and cultural -- of early American life. Seventeenth-century topics include one for the founding of each of the three major regions in English North America: the Southern Colonies, the New England Colonies, and the Middle Colonies. Later topics treat the colonies as a whole during the eighteenth century. These include: the Anglo-Indian Frontier, Mercantilism and the Imperial Economy, Society and Politics, the Development of "American" Identity, and the American Revolution.

Texts: Richard Middleton, Colonial America; Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery American Freedom; Alden Vaughan, Roots of American Racism; Edmund S. Morgan, Visible Saints; Gary Nash, Quakers and Politics; James Axtell, The European and the Indian; Jack P. Greene, Pursuits of Happiness; Patricia Bonomi, Under the Cope of Heaven; Bernard Bailyn, The Origins of American Politics; Edmund S. Morgan, The Challenge of the American Revolution.

Particulars: Term paper (approx. 6 pages) due on next-to-last day of class. Grade based on final examination (50%) mid-term exam (25%) and paper (25%), with variable extra credit for class participation.

History 342: The Old South

Roark

CANCELLED

History 344: American Environmental History (Same as EnvS 344)

Allit; MAX:30

Content: The class will study the history of human interactions with the natural world in America and changing attitudes towards it, from the time of the first European settlements to the present. Themes include: Native Americans' use of land, European-American farming practices, epidemics, industrialization and pollution, mineral resource extraction, ecology, and the history of the environmental movement itself.

Texts: To be announced.

Particulars: A midterm and a final. One short paper (five pages) and one long paper (10-15 pages). Strong emphasis on student participation in discussion of assigned readings.

History 352: European Economic History II (Same as Econ 352)

Miller; MAX:20

Content: This course explores the transformation of the European Economy from 1600 to the present. Among the topics covered will be the difficult process of industrialization, the impact of imperialism, and the development of the mass consumer culture of the twentieth century. In addition, we will question the impact of the changes on family and household structures and on gender roles. We will also look at the "Americanization" of the European economy in the twentieth century and at the changes that will accompany the European Union.

Texts: Books and articles, available both on Reserve and through the bookstore, including: Walvin, Fruits of Empire; Colonialism and Culture, N. Dirks, ed.; Valenze, The First Industrial Woman; Mokyr, The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress; Kuisel, Seducing the French: The Dilemma of Americanization.

Particulars: One preliminary research exercise, one mid-term essay and one longer final research paper.

History 352D: European Economic History II, Applied Language/French (Same as Econ 352D)

PERMISSION REQUIRED; PREREQUISITE -- FRENCH 203

Miller; MAX:6

Content: Issues of the contemporary French economy. Using recent magazine and newspaper articles, and popular music along with the work of historians, we will explore the impact of globalization on the present French economy. Taught in conjunction with History/Economics 352 as part of the Language Across the Curriculum program.

Prerequisites: French 203 or permission of the instructor.

Particulars: Class discussions and short writing assignments in French.

History 359: The U.S. and the Soviet Union

Harbutt; MAX:40; WRT: Old System: No; New System: No

Content: Our aim is to explore the history of the U.S.-Soviet confrontation, 1917-1941. This will naturally involve some consideration (and re-consideration) of many deceptively familiar events and phenomena -- the impact of Bolshevism, the superpower rivalry and its domestic repercussions in each state, the significance of nuclear weaponry, the alliance systems, the wars, crises, personalities, strategies, etc. But behind all this lies a range of elusive political, ideological, economic, and cultural dimensions that have come into focus only in the last few years. In a sense then we will be striving for a fresh perspective on the great struggle that shaped much of the 20th century.

Texts: These will include Martin Malia, The Soviet Tragedy; John L. Gaddis, We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History; V. Zubok and C. Pleshakov, Inside the Kremlin's Cold War; Walter LaFeber, America Russia and the Cold War; Lawrence Freedman, The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy; and Abbot Gleason, Totalitarianism.

Particulars: Mid-term exam (paper option); final exam.

History 360: Colonial Latin American History

Premo; MAX:30

Content: This course explores the problems and issues related to the history of the Spanish and Portuguese conquest and rule of the Americas, how those issues changed throughout the colonial period (1492-ca. 1820s), and more general theoretical questions related to colonialism. The course is divided into four sections. "Becoming Colonial," highlights Iberian and pre-contact societies before 1492 and the forms of conquest and colonization of the New world. "Being Colonial I," focuses on land, labor and politics; "Being Colonial II," explores race, gender and cultural mores in colonial society; "Decolonizing," untangles the events and ideas surrounding the crisis and collapse of colonial rule in the nineteenth century.

Texts: Students will read a selection of articles and book chapters as well as some primary documents.

Particulars: Students are provided with "Questions for Consideration" at the beginning of the semester. These questions frame class discussions, are optional themes for short papers and also serve as exam questions. Students will also prepare a short group research presentation on historical personages or groups, such as nuns in a convent, judges of the Inquisition, or a slave family.

History 364WR: African Civilizations to the Era of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Same as AFS 364WR) (Writing Intensive)

Mann; MAX:15; WRT: Old System: Yes; New System: Yes

Content: This course introduces students to the political, social, economic, and cultural history of sub-Saharan Africa from the ninth through the eighteenth centuries. It emphasizes such themes as the formation of African states; the spread of Islam into Africa; and the impact of the trans-Atlantic slave trade on Africa.

Texts: D. T. Niane, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali; P. Curtin, African History; R. S. Smith, Kingdoms of the Yoruba; D. Northrup, ed., The Atlantic Slave Trade; B. Davidson, The African Genius; C. Achebe, Things Fall Apart.

Particulars: Multiple drafts of four short critical papers on readings (3 pages) and two short research papers (5-7 pages); final examination. Grading: short papers (5% each), research papers (20% each), class participation (15%), final examination (20%).

History 367: The Making of Modern South Africa (same as AFS 367)

Packard; MAX: 20

Content: The course will trace the evolution of South Africa from a society founded on the principle of systematic racial segregation to a democratic multiracial nation. The course will explore several questions, including: How did early patterns of settlement and interaction shape racial consciousness in South Africa prior to the 19th century? What was the impact of industrialization and urbanization on definitions and patterns of race, class and gender? How did racial segregation and domination shape the growth of black political consciousness and protest? What were the social, economic and political forces that led to the rise and fall of apartheid? How did South Africa succeed in moving from a racially stratified society, to a mult-racial democracy? What are the challenges and opportunities that currently face South Africa? What is South Africa's role in African and global politics?

Texts: TBA

Content: Students will write three 7-10 page position papers in which they will draw on readings, films and discussions to answer questions raised by the course. The questions will be provided at the beginning of the course.

History 372: History of Modern Japan (Same as ASIA 370-001)

Ravina

CANCELLED

Hist.385-000: Special Topics in History: South Asian Politics since 1945 (Same as PolS.385-000)

Creekmore

History 385-001: Special Topics in History: Voodoo (Same as IDS 385-000 & AFS 385-000)

Bay; MAX:4

SEE IDS

History 385-002: Special Topics in History: The Irving Trial (Same as JS 372 & REL 370)

Lipstadt; MAX: 5

Hist.385WR-000: Special Topics in History: The Inquisition and Managing of Social Deviance: Heresy, Race, Gender, Magic and Sex

Schorsch; MAX:35

Content: This course will explore the history of the Spanish, Portuguese and Italian Inquisitions, which served the Church and monarchies of these countries (and their overseas colonial territories) as the foremost means of identifying, managing and eliminating deviance of many kinds. Though based on medieval models, the early modern Inquisitions introduced and depended on rather "modern" notions of the role and methodology of the developing nation state in administering its subject populations. Through the lens of anthropology, theology and contemporary theory, we will investigate the Inquisitions' role vis à vis specific forms of deviance or heresy: religious (for example, Judaism, Islam and Protestantism, free-thinking, witchcraft), sexual (homosexuality, interracial sex, sexual solicitation by priests) and political ("dangerous" types of visionaries, messianism). We will also seek to understand the early modern Inquisition as a bureacratic apparatus, looking at the meaning and procedures of its operation in producing "scientific" and public knowledge of heresy or deviance, documenting and combatting it.

Texts: Texts will include: Henry Kamen, The Spanish Inquisition: An Historical Revision; Michael Alpert, Crypto-Judaism and the Spanish Inquisition; Richard L. Kagan, Lucrecia's Dreams: Politics and Prophecy in Sixteenth-Century Spain; Carlo Ginzburg, The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; Richard E. Greenleaf, Mixtec Religion and Spanish Conquest: The Oaxaca Inquisition Trials, 1544-1547; Stephen Haliczer, Sexuality in the confessional: a sacrament profaned; Anne Jacobson Schutte, Aspiring Saints: Pretense of Holiness, Inquisition, and Gender in the Republic of Venice, 1618-1750; L.M.E. Shaw, Trade, Inquisition, and the English Nation in Portugal, 1650-1690.

Particulars: The course will be run as a seminar; classroom participation will be emphasized. Requirements: One oral report, one 20-page research paper (both can cover the same topic). Reading knowledge of Spanish, Portuguese or Latin is not necessary but will prove advantageous. Graduate students welcome.

History 487S-000: JR/SR Colloquium: History & Memory: Facing Up to the Past

Amdur; MAX:12; WRT: Old System: Yes; New System: No

Content: This course poses the question of how a country's formative experiences are remembered in politics and culture. Examining events such as wars and revolutions, the class will look at the various ways that societies create historical memories or "myths" and the lingering effects of these memories on subsequent history. While drawing most of its examples from recent European history, the course will pose analogies to similar patterns in America and elsewhere and invite students to choose those countries for their individual projects if they wish.

Texts: Prospective readings include: Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory; George Mosse, Fallen Soldiers: Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars; Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun; Deborah Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory; Paul Hockenos, Free to Hate: The Rise of the Right in Post-Communist Eastern Europe; John Dower, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (Pulitzer prizer winner).

Content: A research paper (some 15 pages in length) on a relevant topic of your choice. There will be no final exam. This course fulfills General Education Requirement I.C. (Post-Freshman Seminar).

History 487S-001: JR/SR Colloquium: Weimar & Nazi German (Same as GER 460S)

Schumann; MAX:9; WRT: Old System: Yes; New System: No

Content: Despite its brief existence, the Weimar Republic was marked by a vibrant cultural and intellectual life and by rapid modernization. When the Nazis destroyed it in 1933 they reaffirmed certain authoritarian traditions of German society and added the murderous persecution of Jews and other alleged enemies, but they also used some of the "modern" elements of the social and cultural life of the Weimar Republic for their own purposes. The course will concentrate on these continuities and discontinuities; it will also focus on the Holocaust.

Texts: Will include Kaes/Jay/Dimendberg, eds. The Weimar Republic Sourcebook; Fulbrook, The Divided Nation; Fritzsche, Germans into Nazis; Klemperer, I Will Bear Witness 1933-1945. A Diary of the Nazi Years.

Particulars: Class participation (15%); a film journal, consisting of 1-2 page papers on each film (15%); a 3-4 page paper on primary sources (10%); a 3-4 page paper on secondary sources (10%); a 15-20 page research paper (50%). This course fulfills General Education Requirement I.C. (Post-Freshman Seminar).

History 487S-002: JR/SR Colloquium: Women in Russia (Same as WS 475S-001)

Payne; MAX:9

History 487S-003: JR/SR Colloquium: Music & Politics in 19th Century Europe (Same as MUS 476S)

Miller; MAX:8

Content: The nineteenth century, a period of revolution and nationalism, gave rise to some of the most dramatic and lyrical music in Western culture. We will explore the political backdrop of many forms of music, from the passion on Verdi's operas, to the scandals of Bizet's "Carmen", to the stirring Slovenian Dances and the powerful forces behind Wagner's Ring. We will not limit ourselves to "high culture," however. There will be time to take a few side trips to opera balls and cabarets and music halls. We will also use a broad definition of politics, probing the contours of the family and gender politics that are embedded in much of the period's music. No prior knowledge of music is necessary, simply a willingness to spend many hours listening and reading.

Texts: Past readings have included several monographs: Spotts, Bayreuth; Johnson Listening in Paris; Rosen, The Romantic Generation; Clement, Opera, or the Undoing of Women; and Said, Orientalism. There will also be recordings and videos. This course fulfills General Education Requirement I.C. (Post-Freshman Seminar).

History 487S-004: JR/SR Colloquium: Darwinism in the Modern World (Same as Anthro 385-001)

Silliman; MAX:6; WRT: Old System: Yes; New System: No

Content: A treatment of Darwin's theory of biological evolution in historical/cultural context. In the first of three segments the course explores the pre-1859 background of the theory, considering scientific, philosophical and religious factors that promoted evolutionary thinking as well as those that discouraged it. Next, consideration is given to Darwin's development and presentation of his theory and its application to humans. Finally the course deals with the reception of the theory, including the role evolutionary ideas have come to play in such areas a biology, anthropology, social and political theory, theology, ethics, philosophy, and literature.

Texts: Beckstrom, John H., Darwinism Applied. Evolutionary Paths to Social Goals; Bowler, Peter J., Charles Darwin: The Man & His Influence; Darwin, Charles, On the Origin of Species (with Mayr intro.); Kaye, Howard L., The Social Meaning of Modern Biology; London, Jack, White Fang & the Call of the Wild; Miller, Jonathan & Van Loon, Borin, Darwin for Beginners; Numbers, Ronald L., Darwinism Comes to America; Ruse, Michael, The Darwinian Revolution: Science Red in Tooth & Claw.

Particulars: Grading: Weekly reading reports and class participation, 50%; 12-15 page research paper, 50%. This course fulfills General Education Requirement I.C. (Post-Freshman Seminar).

History 487S-005: JR/SR Colloquium: The Rise of Modernity in 18th Century Europe

Melton

CANCELLED

History 488S-000: JR/SR Colloquium: Professions, Professionals, Professionalism

Prude

CANCELLED

History 488S-00P: JR/SR Colloquium: The Gun in America

Bellesiles

CANCELLED

History 488S-001: JR/SR Colloquium: Disease, Medicine & Culture in America In Historical Perspective (Same as Biol. 470-001/BSHE 598)

Kushner; MAX:5

Content:The seminar will examine the interaction of disease, medicine, and culture in American history from the pre-Columbian era to the present. Readings and discussions will focus on the (re)construction of and experience with epidemic and endemic diseases. We will explore the “discovery” and “treatment” of a number of behaviors and conditions that were once classified as disease and subsequently reclassified or discarded. Disease often fails to respect geographical and cultural borders. Thus, the interactions that informed the understanding of illness and treatment are culturally and temporally diverse. Attitudes toward and the roles of gender, race, and ethnicity will be central to our investigations. Social experiences with disease and medicine should, whenever possible, be viewed in a comparative perspective. Thus, we will attempt to consider non-American experiences with medicine and disease, as well as the continuing global interactions.

History 499S-002: JR/SR Colloquium: Lawyers, Judges & Jurisprudence in American History

Zainaldin; MAX:12; WRT: Old System: Yes; New System: No

Content: This course will introduce students to the changing nature of law, jurisprudence, the judiciary, and the legal profession in American history. We will examine court opinions, arguments of counsel, and trends in legal analysis and education, set against the background of economic, intellectual, and political development. The course will be of special interest to students considering a professional career in the law, or who have an academic interest in law and legal systems.

Texts: Presser and Zainaldin, Law in American History (West Publishing Company, 2000).

Particulars: Papers are optional. History majors can fulfill history major writing requirements in this class. Course grade is based on in-class discussion and choice of final exam or paper (papers must be 16-24 pages in length and constitute an original research effort). This course fulfills General Education Requirement IC (Post-Freshman Seminar).

History 494-00P: Internship

(WRITTEN PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR REQUIRED)

Allitt

Content: The internship program provides history majors with the opportunity to apply their academic knowledge to practical experience. This will involve placing students in actual work situations with various government agencies or other institutions which deal with historical questions and materials. These may include the Georgia Department of Archives and History, the Historical Preservations Section of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, the Atlanta Historical Society and the Carter Center. The student is responsible for identifying and securing acceptance to an internship position. All projects must be approved by the Director of Undergraduate Studies who can supply suggestions and information on possible internships.

Particulars: PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR (Director of Undergraduate Studies) REQUIRED: To be eligible for a history internship a student must be a junior or senior history major with a minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA. Applications available in the History Dept. office must be submitted to the instructor. Four credit hours are earned for ten to twelve hours of work per week for 14 weeks of the semester and a fifteen-page research paper. Course grade is based on the project supervisor's written evaluation of the intern's performance (50%), and on the quality of the research paper (50%) as evaluated by the instructor.

History 495-00P; Introduction to Historical Interpretation

WRITTEN PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR REQUIRED. HISTORY HONORS STUDENTS ONLY

Fox-Genovese; MAX:12