HISTORY

100.102 (H,S)
(W)

HISTORY OF OCCIDENTAL CIVILIZATION: THE MEDIEVAL WORLD (3) Gardner  Limit 15 20 per section   This course explores selected topics in the political, economic, social, and intellectual history of Western Europe in the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the 13th century.

Secs. 07,09,12 canceled 3/25/08

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100.103 (H,S)

HISTORY OF OCCIDENTAL CIVILIZATION: EUROPE AND THE WIDER WORLD (3) Marshall Limit 15 20 per section   A survey of European history in the period from the Renaissance and Reformation to the late 18th century.

Secs. 07,09,10 canceled 3/25/08
Sec. 08 canceled 5/08/08

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100.112 (H,S)

MAKING AMERICA: MASTERY AND FREEDOM IN BRITISH MAINLAND AMERICA, 1607-1789 (3) Ditz   Limit 15 20 per section This course examines society, politics, and culture in the colonial British mainland America and the early United States, with special emphasis on the history of domination and freedom in the context of empire and revolution. Secs. 03 & 06 canceled 3/25/08 Course canceled 6/16/08

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100.115 (H,S)
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COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA (3) Russell-Wood   Limit 15 20 per section  From the Precolumbian period to independence. Special emphasis on the socioeconomic nature of colonialization and the extent to which colonial institutions reflected those of Spain and Portugal.   Cross-listed with Program in Latin American Studies

Secs. 03 & 06 canceled 3/25/08

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360.147 (H,S)
(W)

ADAM SMITH AND KARL MARX (3) Jelavich/ Schoenberger   Limit 20  Freshmen only This freshman seminar will analyze and compare the founding work of classical political economy and its most radical critique: Smith's Wealth of Nations and Marx's Capital.  
Cross-listed with Interdepartmental, Anthropology, and Geography and Environmental Engineering

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W 1:30-4

100.157 (H,S)

RACE AND EMPIRE (3) Shepard  Limit 15 20 per section   This class will examine the links between the imperial projects of European states in the modern period and the novel significance of “racial” distinctions.  
Cross-listed with Africana Studies

Secs. 03 & 04 canceled 3/25/08

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100.161 (H,S)
(W)

JEWS AND CHRISTIANS IN WESTERN EUROPE: CONFLICT AND CONCORD FROM LATE ANTIQUITY TO THE AGE OF EXPLORATION (3) Rose   Limit 15 per section   The course will examine relations between Christian and Jews in the medieval West beginning in the Patristic period of the early Church down through the age of European explorations in the 15th and 16th centuries.  It will, therefore, cover the premodern history of the Jews in light of their evolving and complex relationship to the Christian communities in whose midst they lived.

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100.191 (H,S)

FRESHMAN SEMINAR: FAMILY HISTORY IN THE US AND EUROPE (3) Ditz   Limit 20 Freshmen only. Reading and discussion course introduces students to major themes in family history since the seventeenth century: sentiment and authority relations; gender and sexuality; family and work; the dynamics of family and race. Readings stress interdisciplinary perspectives and the use of historical evidence, such as letters, diaries, and short stories.
Course added 6/16/08

Sec. 01

MW 12-1:15

100.193 (H,S)
(W)

UNDERGRADUATE SEMINAR IN HISTORY (3) Johnson   Limit 50
Dept. Majors only    Year course: must be taken both semesters  Required for all history majors and normally taken during the sophomore year. Deals with the elements of historical thinking and writing.

Sec. 01

Th 1:30-4

100.206 202 (H,S)

CHILDREN WITHOUT PARENTS: ORPHANED, ABANDONED AND STOLEN CHILDREN IN AMERICAN HISTORY (3) Adelman   Limit 20    This course studies children separated from parents by death, poverty, abandonment, and coercion, and the ways Americans have cared for them-including indenture, orphanages, “orphan trains,” adoption, and foster care.   Cross-listed with Public Health Studies and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Course

Sec. 01

TTh 3-4:15

100.304 (H,S)
(W)

NEW WORLD SLAVERY (3) Morgan Limit 25 This course examines the development of the institution, its importance for understanding early America, the world of slaves and masters.
Cross-listed with Africana Studies

Sec. 01

MW 12-1:15

100.304 (H,S)
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NEW WORLD SLAVERY (3) Morgan Limit 25 This course examines the development of the institution, its importance for understanding early America, the world of slaves and masters.
Cross-listed with Africana Studies

Sec. 01

MW 12-1:15

100.333 (H,S)
(W)

GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH SINCE WORLD WAR II (3) Galambos/Morgan Limit 15 per section   Globalization has dramatically reshaped the world economy, providing great advantages to some but leaving poor nations to struggle with hunger, disease and death on a daily basis.  This course explores the impact of globalization on public health in the developed and the developing nations since 1945.
Cross-listed with Public Health Studies

Sec. 05 added 4/25/08

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100.338 (H,S)
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CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN POLITICAL ECONOMIES IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES (3) Berry   Limit 60 Contemporary economic and political trends and problems in selected African countries examined with reference to colonialism, independence, globalization, and internal struggles over economic resources, opportunity, and power.
Cross-listed with Africana Studies

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TTh 10:30-11:45

100.342 (H,S)
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SPAIN: THE GOLDEN AGE (3) KaganLimit 40  The course offers an interdisciplinary approach to the history and culture of Imperial Spain.

Sec. 01

MW 1:30-2:45

100.343 (H,S)
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THE POWER OF PLACE: RACE AND COMMUNITY IN EAST BALTIMORE (3) Shell-Weiss Limit 12 East Baltimore is often referred to as "the cradle of the black Baltimore community." Excluded from living in other parts of the city until the late 19th century, East Baltimore marks Baltimore¹s oldest black neighborhoods and the birthplace of activism and leadership that helped to make the city what it is today. Despite this long, rich past, however, much of the history of black East Baltimore has been lost, preserved only in limited fragments, in scattered repositories, or not at all. It is also a neighborhood that has experienced dramatic transitions, both social and physical. Students in this class will explore this neighborhood's rich history, collecting and analyzing oral histories with current and former residents.
Cross-listed with Africana Studies, Public Health Studies, Sociology, and Anthropology

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T 4:30-7:30pm

100.344 (H,S)
(W)

HISTORY OF TWENTIETH CENTURY RUSSIA (3) Brooks Limit 20  This course is a survey of twentieth-century Russian history. There will be short papers based on the assigned readings as well as a quiz or two. The emphasis will be on the Soviet era.

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TTh 1:30-2:45

100.347 (H,S)
(W)

EARLY MODERN CHINA (3) Rowe Limit 100 The history of China from the 16th to the late 19th centuries. 
Cross-listed with East Asian Studies

Sec. 01

TTh 10:30-11:45

100.356 (H,S)
(W)

THE BUDDHIST EXPERIENCE (3) Lievens   Limit 30 The basics of Buddhism and its development from India to East Asia.
Cross-listed with East Asian Studies

Sec. 01

TTh 10:30-11:45

100.372 (H,S)

THE VICTORIANS (3) Walkowitz Limit 20   This course focuses on the politics of everyday life, consumption, intimate relations, and concepts of the self in Victorian Britain (1837-1901). Particular attention will be devoted to Victorian visual culture, including exhibitions, built environment, decorative arts and theatrical performance.  Other themes include popular nationalism, class cultures, feminism and body politics, Empire and racial thought.
Cross-listed with Programs in Museums & Society and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Sec. 01

W 1:30-4

100.403 (H,S)

POWER AND VIOLENCE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE (3) Bell Limit 10 The French have been called a 'contentious people,' and the many wars, revolts and episodes of civil war they experienced between 1500-1815 - no to mention the extraordinary violence of the Revolution of 1789 - seem to confirm the point. In this course, meant for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, we will examine the nature of violence an dpower in France during this period. We will read the major works of historical scholarship on the subject, while also looking at a broad selection of primary sources. Knowledge of French is not necessary, but may be useful.  Course added 4/17/08

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M 1:30-3:50

100.422 (H,S)

SOCIETY AND SOCIAL CHANGE- 18TH CENTURY CHINA (3) Rowe Limit 12   Prereq: 100.131, 100.347 or 100.348   Most scholars would agree that the eighteenth century represented the highest degree of material prosperity ever achieved in the course of Chinese imperial history.  But this period has also been seen as one of socio-economic "stagnation," directly contributing to the problems the Qing empire would soon experience in confronting the "progressive" or "modern" West in the following centuries.  This course tests this assumption, by systematically analyzing what did, and what did not, change in Chinese society over the mid-Qing period. Cross-listed with East Asian Studies Course canceled 3/25/08

Sec. 01

Th 1:30-4

100.424 (H,S)
(W)

WOMEN AND MODERN CHINESE (3) Meyer-Fong   Limit 18 25   This course examines the experience of Chinese women, and also how writers, scholars, and politicians (often male, sometimes foreign) have represented women’s experiences for their own political and social agendas.  
Cross-listed with East Asian Studies and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Sec. 01

M 1:30-4

100.434 (H,S)
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MASTERWORKS OF RUSSIAN ARTS AND LITERATURE: THE IMPERIAL ERA (3) Brooks  Limit 15 Prereq: Upper level undergraduates and graduate students The purpose is to consider certain great works of Russian culture and their canonical status in Russian society. The seminar focuses on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with a mixture of discussion and lecture. Students will keep a weekly journal on assigned readings, make an oral presentation of their work, and write a research paper of approximately twenty pages. Course canceled 3/17/08

Sec. 01

W 1:30-4

100.441 (H,S)

SOCIETY, POLITICS, AND ECONOMICS IN LATIN AMERICA (3) Knight   Limit 20    Survey of Latin America since 1940 with special attention to politics, economics, and culture.   Cross-listed with Program in Latin American Studies

Sec. 01

TTh 10:30-11:45

100.445 (H,S)
(W)

AFRICAN FICTION AS HISTORY (3) Larson   Limit 20   An exploration of Modern African history through the African historical novel.  
Cross-listed with Africana Studies

Sec. 01

T 1:30-4

100.486 (H,S)
(W)

JIM CROW IN AMERICA (3) Connolly   Limit 12   Examines the history of racial segregation in America, which is commonly known, when written into law as “Jim Crow” segregation.  This course moves from Jim Crow’s cultural roots in the early 19th century to the present-day legacies of legalized segregation as they exist in housing patterns, schools, and popular culture.
Cross-listed with Africana Studies

Sec. 01

TTh 10:30-11:45

213.450 (H)

DECADENCE (3) Tobias  Limit 20
Cross-listed with German and Romance Languages and Literatures

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      MW 12-1:15

214.370 (H)
(W)

MAGIC AND MARVEL IN THE RENAISSANCE (3) Stephens  Limit 20 Cross-listed with German and Romance Languages and Literatures, Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and History

Sec. 01

T 2-4:30

214.391 (H)

WESTERN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY, 1200-1500 (3)Celenza Limit 60 20   Cross-listed with German and Romance Languages and Literatures and Classics
Gilman Course in the Humanities

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TTh 10:30-11:50, F 12-1 Th 2-4:30

300.223 (H)

THE GERMAN ENLIGHTENMENT (3)  Schott   Limit 20   
Cross-listed with Humanities and German and Romance Languages and Literatures Course canceled 4/18/08

Sec. 01

MW 1:30-2:45

389.361 (H)

INTRODUCTION TO MATERIAL CULTURE: PERSONAL HYGIENE IN EARLY AMERICA (3) Arthur   Limit 10   Cross-listed with Programs in Museums & Society    

Sec. 01

W 1:30-4

570.109 (H,S)

ENVIRONMENT & SOCIETY: TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY (3) Norman     Limit 15  
Cross-listed with Public Health Studies
and Geography and Environmental Engineering

Sec. 01

MWF 9-9:50

100.507 (W)

SENIOR THESIS Ryan A seminar supervised by the Director of Undergraduate Studies and designed to provide a forum for collective exchange among seniors undertaking the senior thesis. All students undertaking the senior thesis must register and attend.

Sec. 01

T 6-7:50pm

100.535

INDEPENDENT STUDY

100.603

MEDIEVAL ITALY: SOURCES AND READINGS (3) JansenLimit 10 Focusing on the twelfth through fourteenth centuries, this course aims to introduce participants to both recent scholarship on medieval Italy and the original sources for scholarly research. Through the lenses of politics, religion, society, law, and the economy, and by recourse to a variety of
methods and approaches, we will examine both Italy's distinctiveness from and continuities with Northern European institutions. Topics include communal politics, religious culture, judicial systems, women, gender & family, Jewish life and culture, the commercial revolution, and the Regno. Source bases include narrative sources such as chronicles, letter collections, hagiography and sermons; diplomatic evidence such as notarial documents and cartularies; as well as statute laws and governmental records. The objective of this seminar is twofold: 1) to familiarize participants with the secondary literature on the field and 2) to help each seminar member produce an original piece of scholarly research for publication. Course added 4/17/08

Sec. 01

Th 2-3:50

100.614

POWER AND VIOLENCE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE (3) Bell Limit 10 The French have been called a 'contentious people,' and the many wars, revolts and episodes of civil war they experienced between 1500-1815 - no to mention the extraordinary violence of the Revolution of 1789 - seem to confirm the point. In this course, meant for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, we will examine the nature of violence an dpower in France during this period. We will read the major works of historical scholarship on the subject, while also looking at a broad selection of primary sources. Knowledge of French is not necessary, but may be useful. Course added 4/17/08

Sec. 01

M 1:30-3:50

100.633

SPAIN AND ITS EMPIRE  KaganLimit 15

Sec. 01

T 3-4:50

100.639

GERMAN HISTORY Jelavich 
Limit 25  Germany from the Restoration to World War I, with emphasis on cultural developments.

Sec. 01

T 10:30-12:20

100.649

THE AMERICAN SOUTH   Johnson Limit 25 Introduction to the professional scholarship regarding the history of the American South.

Sec. 01

TBA

100.672

COLONIAL LATIN AMERICAN HISTORICAL RESEARCH AND METHODOLOGY SEMINAR Vinson  Limit 8 Advanced Spanish is required. This course is designed to introduce students to a range of colonial Latin American source documentation and to familiarize them with basic issues in conducting primary source research. Focusing on textual analysis, the use of economic and social data, and archival survey, students will write a series of papers that will build basic competency and skills in the area of Latin American colonial methodology. Familiarity and some background in colonial Latin American history is strongly encouraged. The course adopts a practicum style. Course added 4/17/08

Sec. 01

TBA

100.684

READING SEMINAR IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD, 1500-1810 Ditz  Limit 15 This seminar selectively explores the emergence and subsequent growth of the Atlantic basin as a site for exchange among and within the continents of Europe, Africa, and the Americas in the early modern era.

Sec. 01

W 6-8pm

100.687

AMERICAN ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL HISTORY Galambos  Limit 10   Perm. Req’d.   This is a graduate course that explores U.S. political economy from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century.  The emphasis of the course is on institutional change that facilitated or tended to prevent growth and development of the economy.  Consideration is given to the major trends in historical interpretation and economic analysis. 

Sec. 01

TBA

100.693

AMERICAN LAND IN BLACK HISTORY Connolly  Limit 15 Interrogates American history from the perspective of blacks’ relationship to the built environment of rural communities, cities, and suburbs.  Moving from Reconstruction to the Reagan Era, this course uses the land as a framework to combine themes from urban history, the history of the black freedom struggle, sex, and sexuality in America, and contemporary memories of slavery.

Sec. 01

Th 10-12

100.695

PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY Walters  Limit 10

Sec. 01

Th 10-12

100.707

COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA Russell-Wood   Limit 15
Cross-listed with Program in Latin American Studies  

Sec. 01

TBA

100.709

MODERN LATIN AMERICA Knight
Limit 10   Reading knowledge of Spanish. Graduate Students only  This is a reading seminar, open to graduate students only, that explores selected themes in the history of Latin America and the Caribbean with an emphasis on general problems and methodologies encountered in the field.  Students are required to write a research paper at the end of the semester.
Cross-listed with Program in Latin American Studies

Sec. 01

W 1:30-3:30

100.721

TOPICS IN AFRICAN HISTORY Berry    Limit 25   Topics and debates in historical writings on Africa and interdisciplinary approaches to African history.

Sec. 01

T 1:30-4

100.731

COLONIAL AFRICA: FRENCH AFRICAN EMPIRE Larson   Limit 10 A graduate reading seminar on colonial Africa.  Specific topics vary by year; please contact the professor directly for more information.

Sec. 01

M 1:30-4

100.735

EARLY MODERN BRITAIN Marshall Limit 25 A year-long graduate seminar discussing major works on various aspects of early modern British history.

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TBA

100.747

MODERN EUROPEAN EMPIRES Shepard   Limit 10   We will focus on French and British imperialism, although we will also touch upon other post-1830 histories (Germany, Russia, the USSR, and the USA).

Sec. 01

M 12-2

100.757

CULTURAL HISTORIES OF LATE IMPERIAL AND MODERN CHINA  Meyer-Fong  Limit 10 This reading seminar will introduce graduate students and advanced undergraduates (by permission) to recent studies of Late Imperial and Republican China that can be classified as works of cultural history.
Open to advanced undergraduates with permission of instructor

Sec. 01

W 11-12:50 12-2

100.767

LONDON WORLD CITY Walkowitz/Mort Limit 20  This course will explore built environment, commercialized sexual modernities, cosmopolitanism and Diasporic communities, Historical memory and space.
Cross-listed with Studies of Women Gender and Sexuality

Sec. 01

T 1:30-3:45

100.778

TOPICS INGENDER HISTORY Ryan The seminar continues the discussion of gender in a transnational perspective with a focus on the geographical specializations and research interests of the participants.

Sec. 01

W 1:30-3:30

140.629

BEYOND THE PANOPTICON: OBSERVING, REPRESENTING, AND MANAGING PEOPLE Marks/ Mooney Limit 20   Cross-listed with History of Science and Technology

Sec. 01

T 4-6pm

214.700

LORENZO VALLA Celenza   Limit 15
Cross-listed with German and Romance Languages and Literatures and Classics

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T3-5

The following General seminars are for Graduate students only and are for the presentation and critical discussion of research papers. Faculty, graduate students and invited guest speakers will participate in this seminar:

100.763

SEMINAR: COMPARATIVE WORLD HISTORY Staff   Limit 25

Sec. 01

T 4-5:50pm

100.781

THE SEMINAR Staff 

Sec. 01

M 4-6pm

100.783

SEMINAR: MEDIEVAL EUROPE

Sec. 01

Th 4-6pm

100.785

SEMINAR: EARLY MODERN EUROPE

Sec. 01

Th 4-6pm

100.787

SEMINAR: MODERN EUROPE

Sec. 01

Th 4-6pm

100.789

SEMINAR: AMERICAN

Sec. 01

W 4-6pm

100.791

SEMINAR: LATIN AMERICAN

Sec. 01

T 4-6pm

100.793

SEMINAR: AFRICAN

Sec. 01

W 4-6pm

100.801

DISSERTATION RESEARCH

100.803

INDEPENDENT STUDY