HISTORY FALL 2003 COURSE ATLAS

History 190: Freshman Seminar: Plato & Thucydides on War & Human Nature (Same as Phil. 190-)

C. Patterson/R. Patterson; MAX:8

Particulars: This course fulfills General Education Requirement IC (Freshman Seminar).

History 190: Freshman Seminar: History of the European City

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 and what we can learn from them. First we will explore the vast transformation of many cities from cathedral and castle towns, to centers of culture, then to industrial powerhouses, over the long period from 1000 to 1900. Then we will look more closely at London and Paris, comparing their development and getting to know their populations. This is a multimedia course using visual aids extensively as well as interesting literary works. It will use a historical perspective but it will include architecture, city planning, social history, and economic change.

Texts: We will use Mark Girouard, Cities and People; Jeremy Popkin, ed., A Panorama of Paris; Emile Zola, L'Assomoir, or The Dram Shop; plus selections from Dickens, Flora Tristan, and others.

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: Freshman Seminar: African American Experience & Hollywood Film (Same as AAS 190)

Davis; MAX:8

Content: This course explores the relationship between black historical experience and black "experience" depicted in 20th century film. We closely scrutinize several movies and documentaries, contrast the film with studies detailing the historical reality, and examine several themes/stereotypes that appear constant throughout the time period in the popular culture. We also use film as a window on popular conceptions (or misconceptions) about Africans and African Americans, and examine how black images halve been historicized over time.

Texts: Will be announced in class.

Particulars: Requirements include mandatory class attendance, weekly response papers, and a final paper. Final grades will also reflect informed and detailed class discussions. There are no examinations. This course fulfills General Education Requirement IC (Freshman Seminar).

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

000; Melton; MAX:100
001; Staff; MAX:40
002; Staff; MAX:40
003; Patterson; 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

000; Blaich; MAX:40
001; Blaich; MAX:40
002; Staff; MAX:40
003; Staff; 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

000; Staff; 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

000; Staff; MAX:40
001; Staff; MAX:40

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

Goldstein; MAX:20

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. This course satisfies area V.A. of the General Education Requirements (United States History).

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; 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 discussions that emphasize the close reading of primary sources. There will be a mid-term, a final, regular short homework assignments and one longer writing assignment (5-7 pages) in which students will analyze a primary source of their choice.

History 285: Topics in Historical Analysis: Allah, Jesus, and the African Spirits: Religious Encounters in African History (Same as AAS 270 & AFS 389)

Willis

CANCELLED

History 285: Topics in Historical Analysis: Popular Culture in 20th Century Latin America

Lynch; MAX:35

Content: This course will examine the social and cultural history of modern Latin America through the lens of popular culture. We will use cultural elements such as cemeteries, music and dance, soccer, film and television, Carnival, and beauty contests to address broader themes including national identity; race and ethnicity; class and class relations; and relationships between governments, corporations, and the popular classes. In the process, students will gain an understanding of many of the major issues in 20th Century Latin American history.

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/herself cheering for the barbarians in their battles with forces visible and imagined.

Texts: Possible texts include: Roger Colins, Early Medieval Europe, 300-1000; Hugh Elton, Warfare in Roman Europe, AD 250-425; 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/her 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 from Enlightenment to Reformation

Beik; MAX; 35

Content: This course was completely revamped in 2002, and it worked very well. We will explore the intriguing phase of Europe's development from the crisis caused by the outbreak of religious diversity to the eighteenth-century world of salons and enlightened rulers (1550-1750). We will compare the mosaic of central European peoples that comprised the Habsburg Empire, with Western monarchies like the Spain of Philip II and the France of Louis XIV, and with rising commercial powers like England and the Dutch Republic. Special emphasis on Europe seen from the East. Themes examined will include the changing role of the nobility, baroque civilization, European statebuilding, the rise of capitalism, and the emergence of new modes of thought. Visual aids and literature will be used extensively.

Texts: Goffman, The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe; Dunn, The Age of Religious Wars; Cervantes, Don Quixote; Grimmelshausen, Adventures of a Simpleton; Klaits, Servants of Satan: the Age of the Witch Hunts; and other readings.

Particulars: Three essays on assigned topics concerning the readings (15% each); one slightly longer term paper (30%), participation grade (25%). No formal exams, no final.

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

Amdur; MAX:35

CANCELLED

History 312: Medieval & Renaissance England

Harding; MAX:35

Content: Late Medeival England gained and lost an empire in France and was, by 1603, on the verge of another which later yielded the United States. Along the way, it experienced a deadly pandemic, the decline of feudal social relations, the development of Parliament, a peasant uprising, a civil war, and secession from the Roman Catholic Church. These crises inspired the histories of William Shakespeare, the literary giant who bracketed the era with Geoffrey Chaucer. Despite its sometimes exotic appearance, this society nevertheless begot our own.

History 318: Modern Germany

Blaich

Content: Perhaps no European state has witnessed as much overwhelming change during the past century and a half as Germany. History 318 will survey these changes from 1870 to the present, exploring the major social, cultural, political and economic currents. This course will focus especially on the changing definitions of the "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.

Texts: In addition to reading numerous primary sources and screening period films, secondary readings will include Dietrich Orlow, A History of Modern Germany; Peter Fritzsche, Germans into Nazis; David Crew, ed., Nazism and German Society; and Dirk Philipsen, We Were the People.

Particulars: Two short essays (4 pages), one research paper (10-12 pages), and a final examination.

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

Harris; MAX:30/10

Content: This course covers the historical development of the group of people known today as African Americans. Students will explore the rise of African slavery; the interactions between Africans and Europeans in Africa, Europe and the Americas; and the role of slavery in the establishment and economic success of the United States. The course will also explore the distinctive cultural and political contributions of Africans and African Americans to the history and culture of the Americas, and African Americans' struggles for freedom and racial equality. Moving from the broader African diaspora to focus on African descendants in the United States, the course ends with the abolition of slavery in the United States.

Texts: Philip Curtin, The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex; The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano; Peter Wood, Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stono Rebellion; Gary Nash, Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720-1840; Solomon Northup, Twelve Years A Slave; Vincent Harding, There is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America; Deborah Gray-White, Ar'n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South.

Particulars: Take-home midterm and final exams; 7-10 page paper and accompanying oral presentation; class attendance and participation.

History 341: Era of the American Revolution

Young; MAX: 40

Content: This class explores the forces that led American colonists to rebel against England and the radical consequences of that event. In particular, we will examine how Revolutionary leaders struggled to determine the role of poor whites, women, African Americans and Native Americans in the new American nation.

Texts: Readings include, Robert Middlekauff, The Glorious Cause, Gordon Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Robert Gross, The Minutemen and Their World, Woody Holton, Forced Founders, and a number of shorter essays and documents.

Particulars: Grades will be based on classroom participation, a midterm exam, a final exam, and several 3-5 page writing assignments.

History 342: The Old South

Roark; MAX:40

Content: This course will examine the South from the American Revolution through the Civil War, with emphasis on the social, cultural, political, and economic development of a slave society in the nineteenth century.

Texts: Readings will consist of six or seven books, including a textbook, secondary sources, and primary documents.

Particulars: There will be a midterm and a final examination. Each student will also write a ten- to twelve-page critical essay analyzing a primary document. The final grade will be determined by the midterm (approximately 20%), the critical essay (approximately 30%) and the final examination (approximately 40%), and class participation (approximately 10%).

History 356S: Development of Modern US Economy (Same as Econ 356S)

Carlson

SEE ECON 356S

History 360: Colonial Latin American History

Premo; MAX:40

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 colonialization of the New World; "Being Colonial I" focuses on the economy, labor and politics; "Being Colonial II" explores colonial society focusing on race, gender and religious mores; and "Decolonizing"untangles the events and ideas precipitating the collapse of colonial rule in the nineteenth century.

Texts: Students will read a selection of articles and book chapters drawn from a variety of works on colonial Latin America, 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 longer papers, and also serve as exam questions for a mid-term and a final.

History 364:Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Mann

CANCELLED

History 372: History of Modern Japan

Ravina; MAX:35

Content: This is an introductory survey of modern Japanese history, covering 1850 to 1950. There are no prerequisites. Topics include a brief survey of traditional Japanese society and politics; the fall of the shogunate and the Meiji Restoration; industrialization and economic development; the rise of political parties and labor unions; militarism and World War II; the American occupation and postwar recovery. Although the emphasis will be on major political events and institutional developments, we will trace social and cultural currents through literature, including one theater piece.

Texts: Saburo Ienaga; The Pacific War; David Lu, Japan: A Documentary History v. II; Beasley, The Rise of Modern Japan.

Particulars: There will be an in-class midterm exam (20%), a brief take-home essay (four to five pages) (20%), and an in-class final (30%), and a take-home final (30%).

History 373: History of Modern China

Andrade; MAX:35

Content: Around 1500, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, China was the largest, richest, and most powerful country in the world. Its technology was cutting edge, its cities prosperous and cosmopolitan, and its culture glorious. Four centuries later, it was being rent apart by foreign invaders as its citizens argued ineffectually. What had gone wrong? What could they do to revive and restore China? This course examines traditional China's collision with the forces of modernity -- global trade, rapid population growth, the scientific and industrial revolutions, and modern imperialism. Today, after a century of revolution, China appears at last to have met the challenges of modernity, but what unfinished projects remain.

History 378: Modern Italy

Adamson; MAX:40

CANCELLED

History 385: Special Topics in History: U.S. South Topic

CANCELLED

History 385: Special Topics in History: Medieval Jewish Topic

CANCELLED

History 385: Special Topics in History: The Holocaust (Same as Rel. 324 & JS 324)

Lipstadt; MAX:10

See Religion

History 385: Special Topics in History: Modern Iran (Same as MES 370)

Litvak; MAX:30

Content: This undergraduate lecture course will review the history of modern Iran from the crisis of the monarchy in the 19th Century through the modernizing royal dictatorship in the 20th Century to a revolutionary Islamic republic. The course will examine the interplay between political, socioeconomic and cultural processes that shaped these developments, particularly the interaction between religion and politics, and that between foreign powers and domestic players. It will also analyze the causes of the Islamic revolution, and Iran's quest to reconcile between modernity and tradition by formulating new Islamic policies in the domestic and foreign arenas in the twenty-year period after the revolution.

Texts: Nikki Keddie, Qajar Iran and the Rise of Reza Khan, 1796-1925; Said A. Arjomand, Turban for the Crown: The Islamic Revolution in Iran; Daniel Brumberg, Reinventing Khomeini: The Struggle for Reform in Iran; Ali Gheissari, Iranian Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century

Particulars: There will be a mid-term and a final examinaiton. However, students may write a 10 page paper. Papers are due the last day of class. If students opt to write a paper, then the two examinations and paper will each count one-third of the final grade. It the students choose only to take the examinations, grading will be based upon one-third for the midterm and two-thirds for the final. Students must announce their intentions to write a paper in a written note to the professor.

History 385: Special Topics in History: Classics of Environmental Thought (Same as Envs 385___)

Silliman; MAX:10

See ENVS

History 385: Special Topics in History: Southen Asian Politics since 1945 (Same as POLS 385)

Creekmore; MAX:10

See POLS

History 487SWR: JR/SR Colloquium: Germany at War: Napoleon through Hitler

Afflerbach; MAX:12

Content: Thomas Mann said in 1945: "Created by war, the unholy Prussian-German Empire could always only be a Warrior state." Is this really true? This will be the question which leads us through 200 years of German history. Sure: According to actual research, the German National feeling rose during the Napoleonic wars. The National State was created in war and by war (1864-1866, 1870-1871), and Germany was involved in two World Wars and temporarily destroyed by war. The question of war and peace is strongly connected with that of its existence, more than it is the case with most other states. We will start with a very short overview on Germany from the Thirty Years War, the rise of Prussia and the problems of German geographical position ("Mittellage"). But our main subject is the rise of nationalist feelings in the Napoleonic times. We will speak about Clausewitz and his war theories, about the wars of German unification and the two World wars, which can also be called, with some reason, the "German Wars." Also today the German national state and the German political mentality are deeply involved with the question of war and peace -- but, as a result of the sad experiences of both World Wars, in the opposite way, a most radical pacifism.

Texts: Friedrich V. Bernhard, Germany and the Next War, trans. Allen H. Powles; Roger Chickering, Imperial German and the Great War, 1914-1918; Carl von Clausewitz, On War, ed. & trans. Michael Howard & Peter Paret, introductory essays by Peter Paret, Michael Howard, and Bernard Broker, with a commentary by Bernard Brodie, index by Rosalie West; Wolfgang J. Mommsen, Imperial Germany 1867-1918: Politics, Culture and Society in an Authoritarian State, trans Richard Devenson; Thomas Nipperdey,Germany from Napoleon to Bismarck, 1800-1866, trans. Daniel Nolan; Gerhard Ritter, The Sword and the Scepter: The Problem of Militarism in German, trans. by Heinz Norden (v. 1. The Prussian tradition, 1740-1890; v. 2. The European powers and the Wihelminian empire, 1890-1914; v.3. The tragedy of statesmanship--Bethmann Hollweg as War Chancellor, 1914-1917)

Content: This course fulfills General Education Requirement IC (Advanced Seminar). Upon successful completion of the course with a grade of C or better, this course will fulfill the GER post-freshman writing requirement.

History 487SWR: JR/SR Colloquium: Medieval Jewish Topic (Same as JSSWR)

CANCELLED

History 487SWR: JR/SR Colloquium: The British Empire before 1776

Harding; MAX:12

Content: The Anglo-Scottish dynastic union of 1603 and its subsequent colonization of North America forged a new international power, the British empire. Although the Anglo-Scottish parliamentary union of 1707 strengthened the imperial core, many American colonies went their own way in 1776. In the interim the empire afforded many Britons unprecedented economic freedom, while depriving African slaves and indigenous peoples of the same.

Texts: David Armitage, The Ideological Origins of the British Empire; Jack P. Greene, Peripheries & Center; Peter Linebaugh & M. Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra, as well as other secondary and primary works.

Particulars: This course fulfills General Education Requirement IC (Post-Freshman Seminar). Upon successful completion of the course with a grade of C or better, this course will fulfill the GER post-freshman writing requirement.

History 487SWR-00P: JR/SR Colloquium: Sex & the Victorians (Same as WS 475SWR-00P)

PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR REQUIRED

Collins; MAX:9

Content: Respectable society in nineteenth-century Britain strove mightily to keep sex under wraps. Sexuality for them was an intimate affair whose public manifestations elicited concern verging on panic. Yet historians have noted how repression paradoxically drew attention to sundry anxieties and ultimately failed to deny expression to such marginal groups as women and homosexuals, smut-merchants and pederasts. This course examines the tension between prescription and practice, attitudes and actions inherent in the efforts of Victorians to reconcile civilization with desire.

Texts: A demanding reading load includes historical and contemporary works. The primary sources range from medical texts through libertarian manifestos to the rantings of 'Jack the Ripper'. Among the secondary readings are landmark works by Steven Marcus, Judith Walkowitz and Peter Gay.

Particulars: Students are expected to participate in weekly discussions, to make a class presentation and to write an original, in-depth research paper based on extensive primary and secondary sources. This course fulfills General Education Requirement IC (Advanced Seminar). Upon successful completion of the course with a grade of C or better, this course will fulfill the GER post-freshman writing requirement.

History 487SWR: JR/SR Colloquium: History & Memory

Amdur; MAX:12

History 487SWR: JR/SR Colloquium: The Medieval Nobility

White; MAX:12

Content: Knights, bloodfeuds, warfare, political conquest, castles, lordly largesse, aristocratic families, marriage, gender, sexual politics, and political intrigue. This course introduces students to the history of the nobility in France and England from c. 1000 to c. 1400 C.E.

Texts: Readings will include medieval literary texts (including epics, Arthurian romances, and troubadour lyrics), histories and chronicles, saints' lives, and legal documents, all in translation.

Particulars: Weekly oral reports and a final research paper. This course fulfills General Education Requirement IC (Advanced Seminar). Upon successful completion of the course with a grade of C or better, this course will fulfill the GER post-freshman writing requirement.

History 487SWR: JR/SR Colloquium: Nationalism in Europe

Adamson; MAX:12

Content: The main objectives of the seminar are (1) to provide an in-depth look at the most important, recent theoretical and historical literature on nationalism in order (2) to facilitate student research using primary documents on some aspect of nationalism in Europe or on postcolonial nationalisms reacting to their experience with European power.

Texts: Ozkirimli, Umet, Theories of Nationalism: A Critical Introduction; Gellner, Ernest, Nations and Nationalism; Anderson, Benedict, Imagined Communities; Smith, Anthony, National Identity; Hobsbawm, Eric, Nations and Nationalism since 1780; Colley, Linda, Britons; Bell, David, The Cult of the Nation in France; Doumanis, Nicholas, Italy: Inventing the Nation; Mack Smith, Denis, A Nation of Provincials: The German Idea of Heimat; Porter, Brian, When Nationalism Began to Hate: Imagining Politics in Nineteenth-Century Poland; Verdery, Katherine, National Ideology under Socialism: Identity and Cultural Politics in Ceausescu's Romania.

Particular: Course evaluation will be based on three short "reaction" papers, class participation, and a 20-page research paper, each weighted at 33% (unless research paper is better than earlier work in which case it is weighted 50%). This course fulfills General Education Requirement IC (Advanced Seminar). Upon successful completion of the course with a grade of C or better, this course will fulfill the GER post-freshman writing requirement.

History 488SWR: JR/SR Colloquium: Professions, Professionals, Professionalism

Prude; MAX:12

Content: The colloquium will consider the origins, development and meaning of the professions in America from the Revolution to the present. Each week students will read an assignment in common and then meet to discuss the material. Emphasis will be placed on the evolution of professional lawyers, doctors, artists, and sports figures, as well as the emergence of professional opportunities for women and minorities. The changing experience of young adults in choosing a profession and the relationship between vocational choice and the formation of personal identity will also be explored.

Texts: Readings will include selections from B. Franklin, Autobiography; N. Harris, The Artist in American Society; J. Auerbach, Unequal Justice; S. Lewis, Arrowsmith; R. Kahn, Boys of Summer; S. Turow, One L.

Particulars: No exams. There will be one paper, 15-20 pages, on a topic relating to the course but of the student's choosing. This course fulfills General Education Requirement IC (Advanced Seminar). Upon successful completion of the course with a grade of C or better, this course will fulfill the GER post-freshman writing requirement.

History 488SWR: JR/SR Colloquium: US South Topic

CANCELLED

History 488SWR: JR/SR Colloquium: African-American History: Garvey & Garveyism (Same as AAS 270SWR & AFS 389SWR)

Davis; MAX:4

Content: This course examines the influence of Marcus Garvey and "Garveyism" in understanding the African American and African Diaspora experience in the 20th century. Garvey, along with his organization the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), is often credited with helping to usher in an unprecedented plan for black political, social/cultural and economic development that attracted the attention of thousands of Blacks in diaspora including the United States. Over time Garvey's ideas attracted the attention of several African and Caribbean elites who would go on to lead their country's anti-colonial struggles. In the United States, Garvey's ideas and programs would influence leaders as diverse as Martin Luther King, Malcom X, Queen Mother Moore, and Dorothy Height of the National Association of Negro Women.

Texts: Will be announced in class.

Particulars: There are no examinations but each student is required to present oral presentation based on assigned readings, prepare weekly response papers and a final 15-page paper is also required. Final grades for the class are based on the student's oral and written assignments in addition to informed and detailed discussion in class. Attendance is mandatory for the class. This course fulfills General Education Requirement IC (Advanced Seminar). Upon successful completion of the course with a grade of C or better, this course will fulfill the GER post-freshman writing requirement.

History 488SWR: JR/SR Colloquium: American Home: Family, Sexuality, Architecture 1607-2000

Young; MAX:12

Content: This colloquium will examine how American understandings of home have evolved from the colonial era to the present. Exploring subjects such as Monticello, the Shakers, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Martha Stewart, we will uncover the diverse ways in which American families have shaped their domestic environments.

Texts: Readings will include a wide variety of academic works, historical documents, and images.

Partictulars: Grades will be based on classroom participation and three 10-12 page writing assignments. This course fulfills General Education Requirement IC (Advanced Seminar). Upon successful completion of the course with a grade of C or better, this course will fulfill the GER post-freshman writing requirement.

History 489SWR: JR/SR Colloquium: Warriors at Peace

Ravina; MAX:12

Content: The traditions of the samurai warrior have often been used to explain Japanese culture, Japanese politics and Japanese business. But the samurai tradition is laden with contradictions: it is a warrior tradition, but it was developed in a time of peace. In this class we will explain the "samurai tradition," how it developed, and its implications for contemporary Japan. We will also examine how samurai culture influenced Japanese culture in general. Could women be "samurai"? Could shopkeepers?

Text: Yamamoto, The War of the Samurai; Keene, trans., Chushingura; Sato, Legends of the Samurai

Particulars: Grades will be based on class participation (50%) and a 15-25 page final paper (50%). This course fulfills General Education Requirement IC (Advanced Seminar). Upon successful completion of the course with a grade of C or better, this course will fulfill the GER post-freshman writing requirement.

History 489SWR: JR/SR Colloquium: Women and Gender Struggles in Southern Africa (Same as AFS 389SWR & WS 475SWR)

van der Spuy; MAX:5

Content: Gender was fundamental to the making of Southern African history, in terms of both colonial/apartheid ideology and policy, and resistance struggles. Focusing on South Africa, this course explores some of the ways in which gender struggle shaped the history of this region, from slavery through apartheid. We then move beyond South Africa's borders to explore nationalist liberation struggles in southern Africa. The course ends with an examination of diffrent aspects of South African women's and gender struggles in the post-apartheid context: from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to HIV/AIDS.

Particulars: This course fulfills General Education Requirement IC (Advanced Seminar). Upon successful completion of the course with a grade of C or better, this course will fulfill the GER post-freshman writing requirement.

History 489SWR: Jr/Sr Colloquium: Radical Islamic Movements in the Modern Middle East (Same as MES 370-)

Litvak; MAX:25

Content: This junior/senior colloquium will review the emergence and evolution of radical Islamic movements in the modern Middle East since the traumatic encounter with the West during the 19th Century to the present. It will cover movements from the Taleban in Afghanistan and Ben Laden's al-Qaida, going through the Iranian revolution, the Muslim Brethren in Egypt, Hamas in Palestine, Hizbollah in Lebanon to Algeria in North Africa. The seminar will examine the interaction between modern Islamic ideologies and the political conduct of these movements in such issues as the desired type of Islamic government, the compatibility between Islam and democracy, the meaning of jihad in the modern period, women's rights and socioeconomic policies.

Texts: Gilles Kepel, Jihad: The Trial of Political Islam; Bernard Lewis, What Went Wrong: The Clash between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East; Olivier Roy, The Failure of Political Islam; Ali Rahnema, ed. Pioneers of Islamic Revival. Recommended: Bassam Tibi, The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam and the New World Disorder.

Particulars: There will be a final exam and a 20 page paper. Midterm exam will be optional.

History 494-00P: Internship

(WRITTEN PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR REQUIRED)

Payne

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

Allitt; MAX:12

Content: This seminar will introduce students to different methods of historical research, writing, and interpretation. Class members will undertake a succession of short research and writing projects to help prepare them for the research and writing of their honors theses. Enrollment is restricted to members of the History Honors program.

Texts: To be announced.

Particulars: Four or five short papers; two in-class presentations. No exams. Permission of History Department's Director of Undergraduate Studies required.