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HIST 190-001: Freshman Seminar: Modern Israel

Same As POLS 190/JS 190/ MESAS 190

Content: This undergraduate freshmen seminar will review the history of modern Israel from the inception of Zionism to the present. The four periods of study will be the ideological formations (to 1917), Zionist autonomy in Palestine and nation-building (to 1949), the problems and successes of sovereignty (to 1977), and the quest for identity and normalization (to the present). Issues to be discussed will include the new and old Yishuv, great power diplomacy, immigrations, sociological associations and cleavages, Israel-Diaspora relations, political and economic systems, Arab-Israeli wars, American-Israeli relations, the negotiating process, and quest for recognition from Arab neighbors.

Texts: Dowty, Alan, The Jewish State: A Century Later; Hertzberg, Arthur, The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader; Stein, Kenneth W., Heroic Diplomacy: Sadat, Kissinger, Carter, Begin, and the Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace

Particulars: There will be a one hour examination and a final examination. Students may write a 10-page paper to satisfy the writing requirement. Papers are due the last day of class. If students opt to write a paper, then the hour examination and paper will count for two-thirds of the final grade, the final examination, one-third. If students choose only to take the examinations, grading will be one-half for the hour examination and half for the final examination.

HIST 190-003: Freshman Seminar: New Immigrants in the South

Same As AMST 190

Content: The ‘New South’ has become a major gateway for immigrants in the last two decades. With little prior experience of immigration, Richmond, VA, Durham, NC, Houston, TX are now home to hundreds of thousands of immigrants from all over the world, especially Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa. In this course we will explore the impact of immigration on politics, culture and race-relations and local responses to immigrant newcomers. Atlanta, the capital of the 'New South,' will be a particular focus.

Texts: Course materials (research reports, popular representations, films, and opinion polls) are drawn from recent scholarship on contemporary immigration to the US from various disciplines, with special emphasis on the South and Atlanta.

Particulars: This first year seminar is a discussion-based, intensive reading and writing course. Requirements include short written responses to weekly readings and a collaborative research paper/project. Using interviews, newspapers, and/or archival research, students will conduct original research for a final project on some aspect of the new immigration to a metropolitan area in the region. We will take two or more off-campus tours during the semester.

HIST 190: Freshman Seminar: Self and Society in Renaissance Europe

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HIST 201-000: The Formation of European Society

Content: The course studies the formation of European society and institutions during the period from the height of the Roman Empire to the Early Modern Era (roughly 100 -1600 CE). This course focuses on the impact of religion on social and political order. Topics include the collapse of the Roman Empire and the rise of Christianity, the Middle Ages as a synthesis of Roman, Christian, and Germanic institutions, the Western encounter with Islam, the impact of heretical movements, the advent of European colonization, the Reformation, and the age of religious wars.

Texts: Kishlansky et al., Civilization in the West; Kishlansky et al., Sources of the West; Makers of Rome; Nine Lives by Plutarch; Poem of the Cid; Dante, Inferno; Las Casas, Short Account of the Destruction of the Indians; Martin Luther, Selection from His Writings.

Particulars: Grades will be based on five quizzes (20%), a midterm (40%), and a final (40%).

HIST 201-001: The Formation of European Society

Content: This course bears little relation to today’s “Europe.” Rather, it’s a course about distant origins, suited to those who want to learn about broad developments prior to the modern age. It tells the story of how the fragmented, underdeveloped societies that emerged in the wake of a dismantled Roman Empire were gradually transformed into the kernels of today’s European nations. Our main goal will be to evoke the realities that labels like “the Middle Ages,” “the Renaissance,” and “the Reformation” tend to mask. We will consider what happens when empires give way to societies ruled by feudal ties, lineage, and local loyalties. We will examine the two-way relationship between religious belief and changing social conditions. We’ll also look into the roles that climate and disease have played in history and evaluate how commerce, political centralization, and the exchange of ideas contributed to recovery.

Texts: Textbook: Judith M. Bennett and C. Warren Hollister, Medieval Europe: A Short History. Readings will draw from Stephen Runciman, The Sicilian Vespers, John Kelly, The Great Mortality, Erasmus of Rotterdam, The Praise of Folly, and Eamon Duffy, The Voices of Morebath, supplemented by a few shorter pieces on e-reserves.

Particulars: Assignments include a mid-term and a final exam, a short interpretive paper (5-7 pages), and reading quizzes.

HIST 202-000: The Making of Modern Europe

Content: Europe – a continent, an idea, a seemingly ever-changing map: this course covers major themes in the history and culture of modern Europe between the seventeenth century and the present. It offers a chronological survey of the European experience, touching upon wars, revolutions, and political ideologies and paying special attention to the dynamics of political, social, cultural and economic change. The goal of the course is to deepen students’ appreciation of the historical developments that brought about the diversity of modern Europe. Topics will include the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, industrialization, nationalism, imperialism, the First and Second World Wars, the rise and fall of fascism, National Socialism, and Communism, and the division of Europe after 1945.

Texts: Judith G. Coffin, Robert C. Stacey, Western Civilizations, vol. 2 (Norton Publ.); Voltaire, Candide; Marx/Engels, The Communist Manifesto; others TBA.

Particulars: Final grades will be based on attendance and active class participation, two short essays, a midterm and a final. Pop quizzes will be administered as needed.

HIST 203-001: The West in World Context

Content: This course will concentrate on the emergence and consequences of Europe’s role in the world. From a relatively backward, poor and fragmented hinterland of Eurasia, Europe rose to dominate the world in the half millennium from 1500-2000, profoundly influence it, and then to recede in the second half of the 20th century. This class will explore the causes and consequences of this historical trajectory with the emphasis on Europe, rather than the world. In other words, this is not a “world history” course but a history of Europe in the world. Discrete topics such as the medieval roots of European expansionism, the age of discovery, commodities and Empire, the impact of Revolution, “new” Imperialism, world wars, the Cold War and decolonization will all be addressed. Although different topics will highlight different European countries, please keep in mind that case studies will rely disproportionately on the instructor’s area of expertise, the Russian Empire and Soviet power.

Texts: Texts and reserve documents may include such works as Alfred W. Crosby, Jr., The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492; Jarett Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel; Michael Adas, Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology and Ideologies of Western Dominance; Pomeranz’s The Great Divergence; Mike Davies, Victorian Holocausts; Benjamin Barber, Jihad vs. Mcworld: From Hard Goods to Soft Goods; and excerpts from many more.

Particulars: Class assignments will include weekly discussion responses and reading quizzes. Exams will include an in-class mid-term and take home final. Class participation is mandatory.

HIST 211-000: The Making of Modern Latin America

Content: This course will explore the political and popular history of post-independence Latin America. Students will analyze a variety of primary source documents and texts, including political speeches, memoirs, oral testimonies, folklore, videos, images, and songs, in order to confront important issues regarding state-formation, national identity, class struggle, and political protest in modern Latin America. Much of the course will consider the impact of colonialism and neocolonialism on the region’s development.

Texts: In addition to the primary documents, students also will read short excerpts from a textbook each week, as well as 4-5 monographs. Texts include: John Chasteen, Born in Blood And Fire; Zephyr Frank, Dutra's World: Wealth and Family in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro; William Beezley, Judas at the Jockey Club and Other Episodes of Porfirian Mexico; Neill Macaulay, A Rebel in Cuba; Robin Sheriff, Dreaming Equality: Color, Race, and Racism in Urban Brazil.

Particulars: Students will take two exams and submit a final paper. They also will be given a map quiz, and will receive a participation grade that reflects class attendance and their contribution to classroom discussions.

HIST 211-001: The Making of Modern Latin America

Content: In this course students will engage with the major themes and problems associated with the turbulent transformation of post-independence Latin America. Course readings and discussions will familiarize students with key historical moments and issues spanning from the early nineteenth to the late twentieth century. Among other topics we will examine the emergent conceptions of national identity, racial/ethnic dynamics, revolutionary movements, and international relations that characterize this period. Students will analyze visual and textual sources, such as artwork, film, literature, photographs, and first-person narratives to understand diverse historical perspectives from within and beyond Latin America. We will discuss and debate how specific representations have shaped different articulations of Modern Latin American history.

Texts: John C. Chasteen, Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise Interpretive History of Latin America; Thomas E. Skidmore and Peter H. Smith, eds. Modern Latin Americ. Other readings will be available through Woodruff Library E-Reserves or Blackboard.

Particulars: Each week students will read a textbook chapter to understand historical background. In addition, we will analyze another text or source to enhance class discussion. Students will create and post discussion questions on Blackboard for each class meeting. These questions should pertain to the week’s materials and topics, but may also relate to the course’s broader themes. Throughout the course, students will take map quizzes (3 total). At the midpoint, students will take a two-part, written exam consisting of one (approximately 2 page) take-home essay question and five in-class identifications to be chosen from a pool of options. The course final will follow the same format. As a final project, students will analyze a self-selected source, such as a film, literary work, photograph, cartoon, first-person narrative, or other. Grading: Class Participation (Attendance, Engagement, and Posting Discussion uestions): 30%; Map Quizzes (3 total): 10%; Midterm Exam: 20%; Final Exam: 20%; Source Analysis: 20%

HIST 221-000: The Making of Modern Africa

Same As AFS 221

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HIST 221-001: The Making of Modern Africa

Same As AFS 221

Content: This course traces the incorporation of Africa into an expanding world economy from the middle of the 19th century to the present. It examines the impact of this incorporation on the development of African societies and modern nation states and the important trends and events in the past 150 years. The course is designed to provide an understanding of the political, economic, social, and cultural forces that have shaped Africa in the modern period and continue to affect the lives of people throughout the continent. During the semester we will examine a variety of sources, which will enable us to draw our own conclusions regarding the nature of the African past.

Texts: Amadhu Boahen, African Perspectives on Colonialism; Frederick Cooper, Africa Since 1940; Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth; Peter Godwin, Mukiwa: White Boy in Africa; Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow that We will be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda; Adam Hochschild; King Leopold’s Ghost; Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Devil on the Cross

Particulars: There will be two in-class exams – a midterm and a final. There will be three map quizzes and four one page response papers. Students will also write one 8-page paper on a historical novel or memoir.

HIST 231-000: The Foundations of American Society

Content: This course will examine American history from its colonial roots to the end of Reconstruction. The class will pay particular attention to the ways in which interactions between people of different races, classes, and genders contributed to the social, cultural, economic, and political developments of pre-1877 America. The course will highlight the stories of individuals from slaves and workers to planters and presidents during events like colonization, the Revolution, industrialization, and the Civil War.

Texts: Readings will consist of six or seven books, including a reader of primary sources and analytical essays and a historical novel of the student’s choice. Other texts will probably include Camilla Townsend, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma; Pauline Maier, American Scripture; Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; and, James McPherson, What they Fought For, 1861-1865.

Particulars: Class attendance and participation are required. Grades will be based on participation, four short response papers, one longer “critical review” essay, a midterm, and a final.

HIST 232-000: The Making of Modern America

HIST 241-000: History & Text: Modern France in History & Film

Content: This course will introduce modern French history since the French Revolution through the medium of a special sort of "text": French feature-length films. Rather than use these films to construct a history of French cinema, we will use them (all in subtitled versions) as evidence of contemporary historical "memory": that is, to show how the French tell their own history to themselves. Like written texts, films can be "read" and interpreted to reveal not just the narrative of a subject but the point of view of an author, as well as the social or cultural concerns of the place and time in which they were produced. By addressing historical themes in a mostly fictional (not documentary) format, our films will demonstrate how history can be "written" for a popular audience and how mass media can both shape and reflect a nation’s collective identity.

Texts: Our main "texts" will be feature-length films, shown on a weekly basis outside of class time, plus selected readings to provide background and context. Likely films are: "Horseman on the Roof"; "Madame Bovary"; "Germinal"; "Life and Nothing But"; "Jean de Florette"; "Story of Women"; "A Self-Made Hero"; "The Battle of Algiers"; "Tout Va Bien"; "Hate". Readings will likely include Jeremy Popkin’s A History of Modern France and Laurence Wylie’s Village in the Vaucluse, plus some shorter selections on online reserve.

Particulars: Writing assignments will include short comments on the class assignments plus a longer analysis (5-7 pages) of an additional film of the student’s choice; the latter will form part of a take-home final exam.

HIST 285-000: Special Topics in History: Making of Modern South Asia

Same As MESAS 370

Content: This course is designed to introduce students to important aspects of the colonial encounter on the Indian subcontinent, now India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. It is a survey of social and political movements that occurred during British colonial rule, from the rise of British imperialism in the 18th century to the period after Indian Independence in 1947. The course will critically consider major themes that were central to struggles in the colonial period, including nationalism, gender relations, community formation and caste. In order to explore the complexity of these historical moments, we will read primary sources, including official documents, social commentary, autobiography, and fiction, alongside secondary materials.

Texts: Barbara and Tom Metcalf, A Concise History of India, 2nd revised edition; Bapsi Sidwa, Cracking India; William Strunk, The Elements of Style: A Style Guide for Writers (2005)

Particulars: Each week you will be expected to post a one paragraph response on blackboard to the week’s readings. There will be two in-class reverse identification exams, one mid-semester and one at the end of the semester. There will also be two take-home exams, each 5-6 pages, which will be given the day of the in-class exam.

Grading: The grade breakdown will be: Paragraph responses and participation in class (10%), In-class Exam 1 (20%), In-class Exam 2 (25%), Take-Home Exam 1 (20%), Take-Home Exam 2 (25%).

HIST 285-001: Special Topics in History: Slavery in Western History

Same As AFS 389/ANT 385

Content: Slavery was one of the most enduring social relationships in human history. It took several forms in different places and across time. However, slavery played a crucial role in western history, thereby helping shape the past of many societies today. This course will explore the development of slavery in the Western World up to the dawn of the 21st century. It will survey current knowledge about slavery, and introduce students to new perspectives on this contentious subject.

Texts: Readings for this course will consist in a variety of texts, mostly on E-Reserves, including illustrations, letters, narratives of slaves’ experiences, and historians’ analyzes of past events, people or societies. Students will purchase at least one book.

Particulars: Participation is crucial, facilitated by debates and discussions in class, in addition to four reaction papers to the course’s topics. The course also includes a mid-term exam and a final essay. Participation will count for 30% of the final grade; the reaction papers 20%; and the mid-term exam and the final essay, 25% each.

HIST 303: History of the Byzantine Empire

Same As IDS 385/CL 329

Content: The Christianization of the Roman Empire and the transfer of its capital from Rome to Constantinople gave rise to a powerful and stable Eastern Roman Empire, known as Byzantium, lasting about 1000 years after the collapse of the empire in the West. This course is an inquiry into how Greek, Roman, and Christian elements fused in the East to form a legitimate, stable, and unbroken continuation of the pagan Roman Empire. It will explore, among other topics, the strengths and weaknesses of this vast commonwealth; the nature of the imperial office and the theology of the emperor and empire; the role of the Church in society; how Byzantium served as a bulwark protecting the West from Islamic expansion; how the Latin West betrayed the Greek East during the Crusades; and how the empire of the East underwent a long decline and at last succumbed to the Ottoman Turks in 1453.

Texts: Peter Brown, The Making of Late Antiquity; Anna Comnena, The Alexiad; Procopius, The Secret History; Michael Psellos, Fourteen Byzantine Rulers; Timothy E. Gregory, A History of Byzantium; Guglielmo Cavallo, ed., The Byzantines; Joinville and Villehardouin, Chronicles of the Crusades. Selected readings will also be placed on e-reserve.

HIST 339: African Americans since 1877

Same As AAS 339

Content: This course examines the collective experiences of African Americans from the latter part of the 19th century to the present. These experiences are studied within the context of both interracial and intra-racial relationships and their intersections with the American political-economy. For a broader view, the course at times compares North America's African Americans with experiences of other African peoples in the Diaspora. In addition, students should pay attention to the role of American intellectual and institutional developments in shaping certain behaviors within the community itself.

Texts: To be announced in class.

Particulars: Requirements include mandatory class attendance, an in-class midterm and take-home final, response papers and a final 10-page paper. Final grades will also reflect informed and detailed class discussions.

HIST 341: Era of the American Revolution

HIST 343: American Civil War & Reconstruction

Content: Abraham Lincoln said in 1858, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” This course will examine the events and years leading up to the American Civil War, the war itself, and Reconstruction. We will follow the political and military narrative, but focus especially on the perspectives, contributions, and struggles of various groups of Americans during those years, including soldiers, individuals on the homefront, women who involved themselves in the war efforts, and slaves/freedpeople. We will study historians’ narratives and analyses, as well as primary sources by Americans who left records of their lives during these years.

Texts: Our “text book” will be James McPherson’s Ordeal by Fire. Other texts may include Joan Cashin, The War Was You and Me, about civilians, and a variety of chapters, articles, and primary documents on Reserves Direct.

Particulars: Grades will be based on engagement of the texts and classroom participation, approximately 3 short response essays (to facilitate discussion), two essay-based exams, and an 8-10 page paper based on documents set aside in MARBL and chosen by the student. No outside research is required.

HIST 346: The Indian in American History

Content: This course will deal with the story of the North American Indian from pre-Columbian times to the present. Since the course deals with a non-literate people it requires a non-traditional approach. Here the subject will be approached through "ethnohistory," an interdisciplinary method based on both anthropology and history. The main focus of the course will be on the various ways that Indian and Anglo-American cultures have interacted with and influenced each other, in ways very subtle as well as very obvious. This began with the first European settlers and continues to the present day.

Texts: Roger Nicols, American Indians in U.S. History; Lynda Shaffer, Native-Americans before 1492; Ruth Underhill, Red Man's Religion; Alden Vaughan, Roots of American Racism; James Axtell, The European and the Indian; Richard Aquila, The Iroquois Restoration; Anthony Wallace, The Long, Bitter Trail; Robert Utley, The Indian Frontier of the American West; Donald Parman, Indians and the American West in the Twentieth Century. Additional readings on reserve.

Particulars: An hour mid-term examination; a two-hour final examination; term paper of about six pages. Grade formula: final exam (40%), mid-term exam (20%), paper (20%), contribution to class sessions (20%).

HIST 349: The New South

Content: This course examines southern history from Reconstruction to the present, paying attention to the evolution of economic, social, cultural, and political life. Topics of particular interest include the reorganization of economic and political life in the aftermath of the Civil War, the rise of Jim Crow segregation, industrialization and urbanization, southern poverty, southern contributions to American popular and literary culture, the southern civil rights movement, the rise of the two-party South, and the political impact of southern evangelical Protestantism.

Texts: Nicholas Lemann, Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War; Stephen Kantrowitz, Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy; Twelve Southerners, I’ll Take My Stand; Bryant Simon, Fabric of Defeat; Flannery O’Connor, “Everything That Rises Must Converge;” Edward Ball, Slaves in the Family. Other readings to be announced.

Particulars: Students will be evaluated based on two short papers, a longer research paper, a final exam, and class participation.

HIST 361: Latin America since Independence

Content: The story of modern Latin America is one of nation building. After the Wars of Independence in the early nineteenth century, Latin Americans used many strategies to construct nations out of regions. The route was difficult, however, as processes like modernization, the stratification of wealth, racial and ethnic tensions, and military and foreign intervention marred attempts to create unified nations. Those same themes continued to dominate into the twentieth century, and new ones appeared -- immigration, challenges to gender roles, revolution, and new political strategies. This class will explore these topics and many others in our attempts to understand the complexity of modern Latin American history.

Texts: The organizing text will be Skidmore and Smith’s Modern Latin America. We will also read numerous scholarly monographs, novels, and testimonials. We will engage with a variety of primary sources that reveal what Latin Americans were hoping their nations would become and what, in fact, they were. There will be weekly, required, out of class, film viewings.

Particulars: Students will write short papers based on readings, films, and a field trip; there will be a map quiz, a midterm and a final; students will be graded for active participation in class discussions.

HIST 367: The Making of South Africa

Same As AFS 367

Content: South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994 marked one of the most momentous historical watersheds in the twentieth century. Just a few years earlier, amidst widespread resistance and state repression, few imagined that Nelson Mandela would become president. South Africans now enjoy one of the world’s most progressive constitutions, racist apartheid legislation has been consigned to the dustbin of history, and all South Africans are now citizens of their own country. At the same time, South Africa faces a catastrophic HIV/AID pandemic, extraordinary poverty and inequality, and persistent patterns of violence. South Africa’s political “miracle” seems increasingly in question. This course offers an introductory but in-depth history of this complex part of the world. In addition to lectures and films, we will read selected primary sources and secondary materials.

Texts: Ashford, Madumo: Man Bewitched; Biko, I Write What I Like; Mandela, No Easy Walk to Freedom; Mda, Heart of Redness; Wicomb, David's Story; Worden, Making of Modern South Africa

Particulars: Mid-Term, Final, short responses, one paper.

HIST 370: History of Modern Israel

Same As JS 370

Content: This upper level course traces the origins and development of modern Zionism and the evolution and growth of modern Israel. From biblical connections of the Jewish people to the land of Israel until the present, the course looks at the themes, causes, ideologies, diplomacy, neighbors, and leaders that shaped the contemporary Jewish state. Five periods of study are addressed: to the 1840s, from then until 1922, the Palestine Mandate or Yishuv until after statehood, and 1949 to the present.

Texts: Laqueur, Walter, A History of Zionism; Dowty, Alan, The Jewish State: A Century Later; Hertzberg, Arthur, The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader; Stein, Kenneth W., Heroic Diplomacy: Sadat, Kissinger, Carter, Begin, and the Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace; Sternhell, Zev, The Founding Myths of Israel; Stein, Kenneth W., Documentary Reader of Modern Israel (to be purchased from the instructor) .

Particulars: There will be a one hour examination and a final examination. Students are expected to write a research paper of no more than 25 pages, using primarily library and archival sources. Graduate students will write an additional ten page paper about a Zionist or Israeli leader. All students will be expected to engage in regular class discussions. Additional readings will be provided on library reserve.

HIST 375: The Pacific War

Content: Primary focus will be on land, sea, and air campaigns of the Japanese-American conflict in World War II, with attention also given to representative personalities, weapons, homefront factors, and roles of Chinese and British Commonwealth forces. The subject will be handled as an example of culture conflict and total war in the 20th century.

Texts: Prosepctive titles may include Ronald Spector, Eagle Against the Sun (textbook); James Fahey, Pacific War Diary; Saburo Ienaga, The Pacific War; Eugene Sledge, With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa; Studs Turkel, The Good War; and Haruko and Theodore Cook, Japan at War

Particulars: Normal class routine will be lecture, with certain days set aside for movies or discussion of particular topics (prisoners of war, the atomic bomb, etc.).

HIST 377: European Intellectual History since 1880

Content: The course introduces the intellectual life of modern continental Europe. Its themes may be articulated as four questions: 1) how do writers in this period conceive of human knowledge (its sources, nature, range, and foundations); 2) how do they conceive of human community amidst rapid social change, political and economic crises, world wars, and a shrinking globe; 3) how do they think about art, human creativity, and their relation to rationality and irrationality; and 4) how do they conceive the human individual and the possibility of “selfhood” in a world governed by impersonal forces and prone to collective crisis?

Texts: Friedrich Nietzsche, The Use and Abuse of History; Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against Nature; Henri Bergson, Introduction to Metaphysics; Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art; Peter Gay, ed., The Freud Reader; Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon; Walter Kaufmann, ed., Existentialism from Dostoyevsky to Sartre; Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot; Michel Foucault, History of Sexuality, vol. 1; Vaclev Havel, The Power of the Powerless; Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

Particulars: The course is writing-intensive. Course evaluation will be based on three short “reflection” papers (25%), two take-home exams at mid-semester and end-of-term (25%), a term essay (25%), and class participation (25%).

HIST 385-000: Special Topics in History: U.S.-China Relations

Same As POLS 385

Content: This course will examine U.S.-China relations from the American Revolution to the the present. While the course will focus on the period since President Nixon’s opening to China, it will include attention to earlier political, economic and social antecedents, especially the complex World War II, Civil War and Korean War period. Cultural relationships as well as traditional diplomatic and economic trends will be explored. The different roles of Congress, the Executive branch and corporate America in making China policy will be examined. The course will conclude by examining the major strategic, economic, technological and political challenges being encountered by China’s rise to great power status.

Texts: Several books will be required, including: Warren I. Cohen, America’s Response to China: A History of Sino-American Relations (Fourth edition, paper 2000); James Mann, About Face: A History of America’s Curious Relationship with China, from Nixon to Clinton (paper, 2000); China: The Balance Sheet, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2006. Multiple articles and chapters of books will also be assigned.

Particulars: The course will include a mid-term and final, several short writen and oral assignments and a 10-12 page research paper. Students will have the opportunity to use Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Archives for their research paper.

HIST 385-001: Special Topics in History: World War I

Content: The First World War is the “great seminal catastrophe of the twentieth century” (George F. Kennan). This course will deal with the political, military, social, economic and cultural history of World War I, from the July Crisis of 1914 to the peace treaties of 1919/20 and the collective remembrance of the Great War.

Texts: Niall Ferguson, The Pity of War; Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau and Annette Becker, 14 – 18: Understanding the Great War; The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War; Hew Strachan, The First World War; Jay Winter and Antoine Prost, The Great War in History: Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present; The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness: World War I

Particulars: Course evaluation will be based on class participation three short essay papers and two tests.

HIST 385-002: Special Topics in History: Jane Austen's World

Content: The recent television and film versions of Jane Austen’s novels have generated great—and well deserved—interest in her works. Along with reading some of her novels, our class will place them into a rich historical context. How do her novels interpret changing views of love and family? How do they reflect rising consumer capitalism and new styles of fashion? What do they say about women’s rights to property? About gardens, manners and aristocratic estates? About the Napoleonic war and the British slave trade? About women who read too much? Austen wrote during one of the most turbulent periods of British (and European) history. Our readings and discussion will deepen our understanding of what one perceptive and forthright woman had to say about British society and culture.

Texts: Readings include: Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion and Emma. Selections from scholarly books and articles on the period.

Particulars: Library Research Project;15-page research paper; class discussions and oral presentations.

HIST 385-003: Special Topics in History: The Great Powers in the Middle East, 1914-Present

Same As MESAS 370

Content: This course will deal with the creation of the Middle East in its present form, with the entry of the Great Powers to the region after the First World War. It will discuss the rise of the British influence in the region and its decline in the aftermath of the second world war, the rise of Arab nationalism, as a counter force and the growing role and influence of the United States in the area, the turning of the Middle East into a great powers' Cold War battle field, and the role of the decolonization movement in the changing face of the Middle East.

HIST 385-004: Special Topics in History: Restoration & Revolution in Europe, 1814-1849

Content: Through lectures and discussion, original sources and the works of historians, this course examines the main social, cultural, economic, and political trends of European history in the years between the Congress of Vienna and the 1848 Revolutions, as Europeans struggled to come to terms with the transformative legacies of the French Revolution and Napoleon and the emergence of a self-conscious modernity in all of these areas of life. Topics covered include: the contentious transitions to “restoration” politics and society after Napoleon’s defeat; the formation of political ideologies and opposition politics (liberal, conservative, socialist, nationalist); the growth of industry and changing face of urban and rural life; the development of romanticism and realism in the arts; tensions between science and religion; contested conceptions of gender and family; and the experience of imperialism and colonization.

Texts: Robin Winks and Joan Neuberger, Europe and the Making of Modernity, 1815-1914. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN: 978-0195156225; Jan Goldstein and John Boyer, eds., Nineteenth-Century Europe: Liberalism and its Critics. University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization, vol. 8. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. ISBN: 978-0226069524; Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle. Edited by Janet Browne and Michael Neve. Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1989. ISBN: 978-0140432688; George Sand, Indiana. Translated by Sylvia Raphael. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN: 978-0192837974.

Particulars: For this course you will write: a midterm; a final examination; one short paper (c. 4-5 pp., 1200-1500 words) assessing primary sources; and a longer essay (c. 7-9 pp., 2100-2700 words) engaging with scholarly opinion upon a topic of your choice (formulated in consultation with the instructor, and requiring a preliminary prospectus and short bibliography). Participation and attendance are also required and assessed.

HIST 385-005: Special Topics in History: Early Medieval England

Content: The political, social, and cultural history of England from c.600 to c.1200 CE.

Texts: Most of the readings will be in primary sources translated from Latin, Old English, or medieval French, including chronicles and histories, saints’ lives, law codes and legal documents, and poems.

Particulars: 6 short papers (c.500 words), a take-home midterm exam, and a take-home final exam.

HIST 385-006: Special Topics in History: Mozart's World

Same As GER 460

Content: This interdisciplinary course will be taught in English. It uses Mozart's biography, travels, and music as a vehicle for exploring broader issues in the cultural history of Europe on the eve of the French Revolution. The first half focuses on Mozart's world through the composer's letters and travels. Readings and discussions will seek to illuminate the historical backdrop against which Mozart's life unfolded by looking at London, Paris, and Vienna as stages for major events of his day. The second half explores Mozart's operas, not primarily as musical products but as texts illuminating themes like the Enlightenment, shifting views of women, perceptions of non-Europeans, and the origins of the French Revolution.

Texts: May include: Hans Mersmann, ed., Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Daniel Heartz, Mozart's Operas; Peter Gay, Mozart; Robert W. Gutman, Mozart: A Cultural Biography; H.C. Robbins Landon, 1791: Mozart's Last Year; James Van Horn Melton, The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe

Particulars: Midterm, final, several short papers, and a ten-page paper.

HIST 385-007: Special Topics in History: Women in India

Same As MESAS 370R

Content: The aim of this seminar course is to examine historians' attempt to 'recover' the history of women in India. Scholars have engaged for awhile now in reconstructing the lives and careers of distinguished women, and more recently of women's struggles. We will read a variety of texts dealing with pre-colonial and colonial India to examine how successful these historical investigations have been, what their limitations are, and how we might open up new set of questions and approaches.

HIST 385-009: Special Topics in History: The Politics of Oil Dependency

Same As POLS 385/ ASIA 370

Content: This course examines the role energy plays in national and international politics. It assesses how dependency on oil import affects the U.S.’s economy, its national security, and its efforts to deal with global warming. After studying the issues, the students will prepare group policy papers recommending how the U.S. administration should deal with the imported oil issue in the short -, medium-, and long term.

Texts: The following three books will be required reading; other readings will be put on reserve. Jay Hakes, A Declaration of Energy Independence: How Freedom for Foreign Oil can improve National Security, Our Economy, and the Environment. (2008); Robert Bryce, Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of “Energy Independence”. (2008); Thomas L. Friedman, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – And How It Can Renew America. (2008)

Particulars: TBA

HIST 385-010: Special Topics in History: The Black Freedom Movement, 1945-1975

Same As AAS385

Content: The Civil Rights and Black Power struggles of the 1950s-60s-70s, which many scholars now refer to as the “Black Freedom Movement,” are central to our understanding of modern U.S. history.  This course provides an overview of the movement, engaging major themes and debates in contemporary Black Freedom Studies including the impact of the Cold War, the roles of women, and the relationship of civil rights to black power.  It also addresses the relationship between historical scholarship and popular memory. 

Texts: Required readings will include primary and secondary sources including such books as the Eyes on the Prize Reader and Groundwork:  Local Black Freedom Movements in America.

Particulars: TBA

HIST 385-01P: Special Topics in History: Nazi Politics & Medicine

Same As IDS 385

Content: Medicine in Germany from 1933 to 1945 provides extreme examples of the excesses of modern medical culture. This course, sponsored by the Holocaust Museum (Washington), will examine questions such as the biologization of politics; models of public health - euthanasia and sterilization; the death camps and medical research - race and genetics; alternative medicine; gender roles in medicine: doctors and nurses in Nazi culture; disability and citizenship -- the origin of informed consent and the Nuremberg Medical Code. All of these questions will be introduced by an overview of the political history and ideology of German culture from the 1920s to 1945. This class is simultaneously offered in the College (History, IDS, ILA); The Schools of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing.

Texts: The readings for this course will be available on a course website.

Particulars: PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR REQUIRED. Please go to http://hsh.emory.edu/courses.html, click “courses”, go to this class and find the instructions for application. Class performance will be assessed based on attendance and active participation; a research paper. In preparation for the paper, a prospectus, an annotated bibliography, and a first draft are graded assginments.

HIST 385S-000: Special Topics in History: Voodoo

Same As IDS 371S

Content: An inquiry into the world’s most maligned religious and cultural system, more properly called vodou and vodun, this three-part multidisciplinary course begins with the study of vodou religious practice in Brooklyn , NY. It then moves to the cultures of vodou in the Caribbean and particularly in Haiti. Issues considered include the character of selected deities or lwa, altars and sacred paraphernalia, healing traditions, possession and sacrifice, magic and sorcery, and the so-called syncretism of African and Catholic spirits. The second portion of the course explores the African roots and relatives of vodou, with special attention to the Fon/Yoruba and Kongo cultural areas. The final third of the course considers the history of interaction between American and Haitian cultures, including the representation of vodou in American popular culture.

Texts: Readings are drawn from the work of anthropologists, folklorists, historians, novelists, art historians, dancers, and religious specialists. Some of the major authors read include Karen McCarthy Brown, Maya Deren, Paul Farmer, Joan Dayan, and Donald Cosentino.

Particulars: Reading and writing assignments are heavy, and two projects are required. There is no final exam.

HIST 385WR-000: Special Topics in History: Atlantic Lives: Travelers, Emigrants, Captives, and Refugees during the Age of Revolution

Same As IDS/AAS/LAS 385WR

Content: This upper-level undergraduate research seminar course is designed to introduce students to theoretical, comparative, and integrative issues in Atlantic World History from the late 18th century to the late 19th century. The course highlights the breakdown of colonialism and slavery and the struggle for freedom and citizenship, particularly throughout the Caribbean basin. The destinations and experiences of loyalists from the American Revolution, refugees from the Haitian and Latin American Revolutions, pioneers of African colonization, and Chinese contract workers are of particular interest. General topics for discussion include voluntary and involuntary migration experiences, geopolitical struggles, slavery and abolition, race and gender relations, and rebellion and revolution. Students will explore these issues through a variety of texts, including contemporaneous travel accounts, government documents, and personal correspondence. Active class discussion, visual images, guest speakers, short analytical essays, and the completion of a research paper are designed to focus student inquiry and historical analysis of the Caribbean Atlantic World.

HIST 487SWR-000: JR/SR Colloquium: Literature & Revolution: The European Novelist as Social Critic

Content: This course uses a selection of novels from late 19th-century and 20th-century Europe as sources for studying the development of a revolutionary tradition in modern European history. Texts will illustrate diverse points of view, from moderate to radical, and will include "anti-utopian" warnings as well as positive prescriptions for change. By using the novel as source material, we will be able to see the changing content of revolutionary doctrines in different countries and different time periods, as well as to evaluate the role of art as a political mouthpiece: i.e., to see whether the pen may indeed be as mighty as the sword.

Texts: Likely readings are: Emile Zola, Germinal; Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun; Aldous Huxley, Brave New World; Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon; Albert Camus, The Plague; Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch; Günter Grass, Local Anesthetic; Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being. In addition, for examples of official reactions to "dissident" artworks, we will view the documentary film "Degenerate Art in Nazi Germany" (on Nazi suppression and destruction of avant-garde paintings) and read Alice Kaplan’s The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach (a French fascist executed in post-Vichy France). For the latter text, we will schedule an in-class mock trial to judge Brasillach’s guilt.

Particulars: Writing assignments will include a research paper (approx. 15 pages) on a related topic plus a preliminary review essay on a scholarly work that will help frame the argument for the final project. Occasional short written or oral presentations will also be scheduled to provide background and context for the assigned texts. There will be no final exam.

HIST 487SWR-001: JR/SR Colloquium: International Relations in Europe 1789-1945

Content: This course analyzes major developments in international relations among the European Powers from the French Revolution to the end of World War II. The seminar will focus on the changes in the international system and in diplomacy, on patterns of cooperation and conflict, and on the impact of ideologies and economic developments on international relations.

Texts: P.M.H. Bell, The Origins of the Second World War in Europe; F.R. Bridge and Roger Bullen, The Great Powers and the European States System, 1814 – 1914; Alan Cassels, Ideology and International Relations in the Modern World; Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers; Paul W. Schroeder, Systems, Stability, and Statecraft: Essays on the International History of Modern Europe.

Particulars: Grades will be based on class participation, four response papers, a presentation and a final research paper (20 – 22 pages).

HIST 487SWR-002: JR/SR Colloquium: Love & Sex in Renaissance Europe

Same As WS 475SWR

Content: This course explores changing sexual behaviors and related social practices in Europe from 1400 to 1600, with a special emphasis on Italy. We will use the relationships formed around love and sex as a lens through which to view the lives of ordinary people in Renaissance Europe, and to grasp some of the complex ways in which late medieval society gave way to more “modern” forms of social life. One of our goals is historicize love and sex: that is, to understand the ways that seemingly timeless emotions like love and sexual desire were expressed and experienced differently in other historical periods. Some of the topics to be investigated include the affectionate, often ritualized play of courtship; the nature and meaning of marriage, especially in regard to “love” between spouses and the maintenance of social order; control of illicit sexuality such as prostitution and homosexuality; conflicts between men and women over gender roles; and the numerous links between sex and power.

Texts: May include Gene Brucker, Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Italy; Thomas and Elizabeth Cohen, Words and Deeds in Renaissance Rome; Cynthia Herrup, A House in Gross Disorder; Ruth Karras, Common Women: Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England; Marguerite of Navarre, The Heptameron; Michael Rocke, Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence; Guido Ruggiero, Binding Passions: Tales of Magic, Marriage, and Power at the End of the Renaissance

Particulars: Your grade will be based on class participation, including rotating turns as discussion leaders (=40% course grade); regular weekly participation in our Blackboard conference (=20% course grade); and a research paper of approximately 4000-4500 words (16-18 pages) using primary source materials in translation (=40% course grade).

HIST 487SWR-00P: JR/SR Colloquium: Alexander: Life, Legacy & Legend

Content: The course will investigate in detail the career of Alexander the Great of Macedon, as well as the cultural and political background and historical impact of that career.

Particulars: PERMIISSION OF INSTRUCTOR REQUIRED. Contact Prof. Patterson (cpatt01@emory.edu).

HIST 488SWR-000: JR/SR Colloquium: American Women's Stories, 1830-1880

Same As WS 475SWR

Content: Americans witnessed profound change and turmoil during the middle of the nineteenth century, and the Civil War (1861-65) was a turning point for the nation and for countless people, perhaps especially for the country’s women. Largely through the writings of individuals from the era and historians’ analyses, we will explore the history of mid-century America generally and what that period meant for women specifically. For example, in what ways was the war “good” for women’s progress, offering the promise of new opportunities? To what extent was this promise fulfilled? How was the war and its aftermath devastating or disappointing? Of course, race, region, and class shaped women’s perspectives on these and other questions, and we will emphasize these categories of analysis. The bulk of the course will cover important books and articles in nineteenth-century American women’s and social history. Additionally, we will read and analyze primary documents. All of this is in preparation for a final research paper based in manuscripts at Woodruff Library (MARBL).

Texts: Some texts will not be read in their entirety: McLaurin, Celia, A Slave; Hodes, The Sea Captain’s Wife; Clinton, Divided Houses; Weiner, Mistresses and Slaves; Faust, Mothers of Invention; Silber, Daughters of the Union

Particulars: Class participation & Response Papers will constitute about one-half of the final grade. The other half derives from the 20-page final research paper.

HIST 488SWR-001: JR/SR Colloquium: Slavery & Freedom in the Era of the American Revolution

Content : African slavery fundamentally shaped the development of the early modern Atlantic world. This seminar in comparative social, cultural, and intellectual history challenges students to think broadly along two parallel tracks: first, about the varieties of Atlantic slaveries as variations on common themes of race, nation, and empire; and second, about the dynamics of human bondage as viewed from multiple perspectives in terms of centers and peripheries, abstractions and experiences, transnational and creole identities, the gendered dynamics of racial power, and the development of oppositional antislaveries in an age of capitalist expansion.

Texts : Possible titles include Christopher Leslie Brown, Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism; Vincent Brown, The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery; David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823; Laurent Dubois, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution ; David Eltis, Rise of African Slavery in the Americas; Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route; Jennifer Morgan, Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery; Philip D. Morgan, Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry; João José Reis , Slave Rebellion in Brazil ; Stephanie Smallwood, Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora ; John K. Thornton, Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800.

 Particulars : This is a reading and writing-intensive course. Active engagement with the readings and meaningful participation in weekly discussions is required. The main writing assignment consists of a 20-25 page research paper.

HIST 488SWR-002: JR/SR Colloquium: U.S. Foreign Relations

Content: No one has satisfactorily defined the essential character of American diplomacy. We will attempt to do so here. The focus will be on the ideas, emotions and actions that, from the Revolutionary era to our own time, present themselves as potential constituent elements. These may be variously political, economic, military, cultural and psychological in character. Is it possible to find any significant unity in this story? Can we distill from such complexity -- from the profusion of apparent successes, false starts and unprofitable outcomes that make up more than two centuries of American engagement with the world -- something we can plausibly call a "tradition"? That is the fundamental question we will take up this semester.

Texts: Readings may include: Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy; Michael Hunt, Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy; A. Link, Woodrow Wilson: Revolution, War and Peace; S. Whitfield, The Culture of the Cold War; W. McDougall, Promised Land, Crusader State; Lawrence Freedman, The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy; Niall Ferguson, Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire; Thomas Ricks, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq

Particulars: Comparative book review and final research paper.

HIST 488SWR-003: JR/SR Colloquium: The Professions in America

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.

HIST 488SWR-004: JR/SR Colloquium: Garvey and Garveyism

Same As AAS 385SWR

Content: This course examines the influence of Marcus Garvey and “Garveyism” in understanding the African American and Black Transnational 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 Garveyite 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, Malcolm 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 attendance is mandatory. Students prepare written and oral reports, read approximately 100 pages per week of text, participate in detailed discussions of that text, and prepare a 15-20-page research paper.

HIST 489SWR-000: JR/SR Colloquium: Black Bourgeosie? The Making of African Ameircan & Dalit Middle Classes

The course has two aims. One is to analyze the concept of the middle class, and how the idea travels over time and space, through different cultures, societies and histories. The second is to examine the specific conditions and practices that go into the making of a middle class among groups that have been historically disfranchised, and the extent to which these new middle classes continue to live with unusual burdens and expectations.

We shall begin with a brief discussion of changing ideas of middle-classness in Europe, North America and India over the period of the late 18th century to today. We will then proceed with a more detailed examination of works on, and by, Dalit and African-American middle class folk: autobiographies, histories and perhaps some films and fiction.

The format will be that of a seminar, and will involve a close reading and discussion of selected texts in our weekly meetings. Students will be expected to write one mid-term and one final paper, of 5-7 pages and 8-10 pages respectively, in addition to ongoing notes on the individual texts being discussed week by week.

HIST 489SWR-001: JR/SR Colloquium: Fundamentalism in East Asia

Same As EAS 450SWR

Content: In the 19th century, xenophobic, fundamentalist movements swept through East Asia (Japan, China and Korea). Although different in each country, the movements shared key beliefs: that foreign ideas, especially Christianity, were dangerous; that ancient local culture was sacred; and that society needed a revival of ancient values to combat imperialism. In this class we will examine how these movements evolved, their relationship with local religions, the impact of American and European imperialism, and the movements' legacies for revolutionary politics and modern nationalism. E53

Texts: Cohen, History in Three Keys

HIST 489SWR-002: JR/SR Colloquium: Contempoary Issues in Israeli Politics

Same As POLS 490SWR/ JS 490SWR

Content: This seminar explores new developments and trends in Israeli politics, society and constitutional arrangements beginning at the end of the 1980s. We will explore contemporary issues in view of their historical evolution. The course covers the nature and evolving ideologies of the main contemporary Israeli political parties: Labor, Likud, Ultra-orthodox parties, the National Religious party, and Arab parties. We will also explore issues in the changing composition and nature of Israeli society through the lens of Russian, Ethiopian, and Overseas Workers groups, Mizrahi-Ashkenazi politics, and Gender politics. Finally, new political players in the system are also discussed: the Israeli Supreme Court, the business community, and the growing power of the IDF in shaping public policy from the 1990s onward.

Texts: Mahler, Gregory S. 2004. Politics and Government in Israel: The Maturation of a Modern State. New York: Rowman & Littlefield. Shafir, Gershon and Yoav Peled. 2002. Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press.

Particulars: Examination and Grading: Students will write two short papers (maximum 1500 words) during the semester, each constitutes 20% of the final grade. First short paper is due in late February and the second paper is due in early April. A final paper (about 20 pages) will constitute 60% of the final grade. The final paper is early May, 2009. Active class participation is necessary and may count up to an additional 10% bonus to the final grade. The students will send weekly reflection paragraphs on the readings. Students are strongly advised to follow current events on the Israeli daily Haaretz: www.haaretz.com

HIST 489SWR-003: JR/SR Colloquium: History of Israeli Foreign Policy

Same As POLS 490SWR/ JS 490SWR

Content: This course will concentrate on Israel's diplomatic history. It will discuss Israel international orientation in the 1950s', the role of the diplomats in the pursuit of security alliance with a great power, first with France and later with the United States; the search for peace and the diplomats role in the preparation to war, before and after the 1956, 1967 and 1973 wars; and the role of diplomacy throughout the Israeli- Palestinian rapprochement and conflict.

HIST 494-00P: Internship in History

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.

HIST 495-00P: Introduction to Historical Interpretation (Honors)

Content: WRITTEN PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR REQUIRED. Open only to students selected to participate in the department's Honor Program and to BA/MA students. This course is geared toward helping students devise a research proposal for their honors theses. The class consists of discussion of historiographic and methodological writings and problems and practical guidance in research techniques and thesis design.

Particulars: Short reading and writing assignments; in-class presentations and discussions; gathering research material; producing an annotated bibliography; writing a thesis proposal (in multiple drafts).

HIST 495WR-00P: Introduction to Historical Interpretation (Thesis)

HIST 497WR-00P: Directed Research

HIST 498R-00P Supervised Reading