100.102 (H,S)

              (W)

HISTORY OF OCCIDENTAL CIVILIZATION: THE MEDIEVAL WORLD (3) Nirenberg  Limit 15 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 15th century. Special emphasis is given to understanding the ways in which medieval society functioned as a pioneer civilization, compelled to reorganize itself after the almost total collapse of the ancient world, and to the interplay between material and cultural forces in the process of social organization.

Secs. 11 & 12 added 07/18/05
Sec.13 added 08/01/05

Lec.

Sec. 01

02

03

04

05

06

07

08

09

10

11

12

13

ThF 12

M 1

M 1

M 2

M 2

T 1

T 1

T 2

T 2

W 1

W 2

M 1

W 2

M 2

100.121 (H,S)

              (W)

HISTORY OF AFRICA (3) Larson Course limit 50
An introduction to the African past. First term: to 1880. Second term: since 1880.

Lec.

Sec. 01

02

03

MT 3

T 2

W 9

W 10

100.123 (H,S)

               (W)

PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN SOCIAL HISTORY: THE AMERICAN WEST (3) Walters   Limit 60 45   An examination of the West and the “frontier” as lived and as the subject of literature and popular culture.

Sec.04 added 04/25/05

Lec.

Sec. 01

02

03

04

MW 2

Th 11

Th 3

Th 11

Th 2

100.129 (H)

INTRODUCTION TO MODERN JEWISH HISTORY (3) Moss
The Jewish encounter with political, social, and cultural modernity and the kaleidoscopic array of Jewish political, religious, cultural and social responses to this encounter in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and beyond; post-traditional modes of Jewish selfhood and expression; the Jewish ‘return’ to politics; Jews as agents and symbols of modernity; the phenomenon of anti-Semitism; the Holocaust, sovereignty, and integration. Sections will be added if necessary.

Cross-listed with Jewish Studies

Sec. 01

MW 11

100.137 (H,S)

THE UNITED STATES AS AN EMPIRE (3) Kramer Limit: 68 15   This course will consider the United States as an empire, including the conquest of the West, overseas colonialism, the Cold War, and Post 9/11.

Sec. 01

T 2-4

100.191 (H,S)

FAMILY HISTORY IN U.S. AND EUROPE (3) Ditz   Limit 20  Freshmen only   This seminar formated course introduces students to major themes in family history: sentiment and family authority; family and gender; history of sexuality; family and work; the dynamics of family and race. Readings stress interdisciplinary perspectives. We also examine historical evidence, such as letters, diaries, and short stories. Emphasis on late 18th & 19th centuries, with some attention to the politics of family and gender in the 20th century United States.

Cross-listed with Study of Women, Gender, & Sexuality

Sec. 01

W 2-4

100.193 (H,S)

              (W)

UNDERGRADUATE SEMINAR IN HISTORY (3) Johnson 

Dept. Majors only    Year course: must be taken both semesters

Sec. 01

W 12-2

100.220 (H,S)

NOT JUST THE FACTS MA’AM: CASE STUDIES IN WRITING ABOUT THE AMERICAN PAST (3) Dailey   Course examines fiction, historical writing, and autobiography and “creative non-fiction” genres as applied to the American South.

Sec. 01

T 10, Th 10:30

100.243 (H,S)

              (W)

BRAZIL FOR BEGINNERS (3) Russell-Wood     Limit 20
An introduction to the history of colonial Brazil based on contemporary primary sources in English and on critical readings and discussion.

Sec. 01

MT 9

100.245 (H,S)

              (W)

THE RUSSIAN IMAGINATION: TEXT, IMAGE, AND HISTORY 1850-1950 (3)  Brooks   This course offers an introduction to the range of the Russian literary, visual, and popular imagination from the era of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky to that of Pasternak. This course has been designated a Gilman lecture course in the Humanities

Sec. 01

MT 11

100.305(H,S)

CHINESE LAW AND SOCIETY: 17TH-20TH CENTURIES (3) Ma      Limit 15    A reading and discussion course studying the role of law as a dictating and mediating force in ordering the late Imperial and Republican China. No Chinese language and history background is required.
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship course

Sec. 01

TTh 2-3:30

100.311 (H,S)

              (W)

ADVERTISING AND CONSUMER CULTURE IN AMERICA: 1750-1970 (3) Keyes   Limit 20    This seminar uses the history of advertising to examine consumer culture and its impact on social, economic, and political developments in American from the 18th century through the mid-20th century.  Dean’s Teaching Fellowship course

Sec. 01

Th 1-4

100.316 (H,S)

              (W)

LANGUAGES OF REVOLUTION IN 18TH CENTURY AMERICA (3) Shalev Limit 25   This seminar provides an intensive introduction to the American Revolution and the creation of the republic by examining those events as a series of intellectual transformations.  Dean’s Teaching Fellowship course Course canceled 05/03/05

Sec. 01

MTh 2-3:30

100.320 (H)

              (W)

THE INVENTION OF MODERN JEWISH CULTURE: GENEALOGIES, FORMATIONS, DILEMMAS (3) Moss   Limit 20    Concepts and practices of “Jewish culture” in 19th-20th century Europe, America, and Israel in relation to secular formations of subjectivity, art,  nationhood, language. Key foci include: tradition, canon and rupture; Hebrew, Yiddish, and metropolitan languages; high and popular; art, state, and market; art, self, and nation. Focus on literature, art, and film.

Cross-listed with Jewish Studies

Sec. 01

T 2-4
3-4

100.348 (H,S)

              (W)

20TH CENTURY CHINA (3) Rowe   The history of China from about 1900 to the present.

Sec. 01

ThF 9-10:30

100.356 (H)

THE BUDDHIST EXPERIENCE (3) Lievens  Limit 30   Introduction to Buddhist theory and practice - from India to East Asia.

Sec. 01

ThF 10:30-12

100.371 (H,S)

              (W)

THE GLOBAL ECONOMY (3) Galambos Limit 15 per section  This course surveys the development of the global economy and its political and economic institutions from the period before WWI, through the ultra-nationalism of the interwar era, and into the emergence of three major economic blocks (Europe, Asia, and the Americas) in the years since WWII.

Lec.

Sec. 01

02

03

04

MT 11

T 12

T 1

W 11

W 12

100.389 (H,S)

              (W)

THE 1960s: WAR, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND ANTI-COLONIALISM (3) Shell-Weiss   Limit 50 35 20   The 1960s mark one of the most turbulent periods in 20th century history. Through a range of primary documents, world literature and films we will explore the reform movements which characterize the period, including response to the Vietnam War, Civil Rights, Black Power, The Women’s Movement, Gay Liberation, Anti-Colonialism and the Counterculture. Faculty identified course which includes discussion on race, gender, or non-western culture.

Sec. 01

M 2-4

100.415 (H)

              (W)

JEWS IN THE WORLD OF AMERICAN ENTERTAINMENT: A CULTURAL HISTORY (3) Gevinson  Limit 25   This course will explore the history of Jewish involvement in American popular culture forms – motion pictures, radio, TV, popular music, cartoons, and comics – from the mid 19th century to the present. 
Jewish Studies Prize Teaching Fellowship course

Cross-listed with Jewish Studies.

Sec. 01

Th 2-5

100.426 (H,S)

              (W)

POPULAR CULTURE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE AND THE UNITED KINGDOM (3)  Marshall   Witchcraft, magic, carnivals, riots, folk tales, gender roles: fertility cults and violence especially in Britain, Germany, France, and Italy.

Sec. 01

Th 12-2

100.447 (H,S)

JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY IN CONFLICT (3) Cohen     This course will survey the evolving and complex relationship between the Church and "the Synagogue," from late antiquity through the Middle Ages. Emphasis will fall on the complex interdependence of theology and public policy -- as well as their impact on majority and minority history.

Cross listed with Jewish Studies

Sec. 01

M 2-4

100.481 (H,S)
              (W)

GLOBAL GENEALOGIES OF "RACE": DIFFERENT HISTORIES OF THE SAME IDEA (3) Hall   Limit 25   This course is designed to help students develop a more complex idea of "race" as a global phenomenon. We will explore how ideas about "race" developed historically in a wide variety of settings, and how, in the era of European imperial expansion, different traditions of racial thinking became articulated to each other. We will examine histories of "race" in Europe, the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Islamic World, Africa, East Asia, and South Asia

Sec. 01

W 2-4

360.101 257 (H,S) 

INTRODUCTION TO AFRICANA STUDIES (3) Hayes   Limit 25

Cross-listed with Africana Studies, Interdepartmental, the Humanities Center, Political Science and Sociology

Sec. 01

ThF 10:30-12

360.375 (H,S)              (W)     

BEBOP, MODERNISM AND CHANGE (3) Limit 20   Hayes

Cross-listed with Africana Studies, English, Interdepartmental, the Humanities Center, Political Science and Sociology

Sec. 01

ThF 2-3:30

070.358 (H,S)

AFRICAN-AMERICAN AND DALIT ‘HISTORIES’: Part One - SLAVERY and UNTOUCHABILITY (3) Pandey Limit 25  Seniors and Juniors and only Cross-listed with Anthropology and Africana Studies Course canceled 05/12/05

Sec. 01

T 1-4

100.507

SENIOR THESIS Knight    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 6-8pm
Th 1:30-4

100.535

INDEPENDENT STUDY

100.606

JEWISH HISTORY AND JEWISH MEMORY IN THE MIDDLE AGES Cohen   What memories of the past did Jews of the Middle Ages see fit to commit to writing, and why?  How do collective memory and historiography give expression to the ideologies and sociocultural milieus of medieval Jewish communities?  This course will seek to appreciate the impulse to write history as an instructive vital sign of Jewish civilization--in times gone by, as in our own.

Cross listed with Jewish Studies

Sec. 01

Th 12-2

100.643

THE MODERN SOUTH Dailey 

Sec. 01

TBA

100.649

THE AMERICAN SOUTH  Johnson

Sec. 01

W 6-8pm

100.657

JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY, AND ISLAM  Nirenberg  Rabbinic Judaism, Christianity, and Islam developed very much in relation to each other. This course will focus on historical moments and cultural settings in which that relation proved unusually productive, and on the religious, political, and cultural worlds it produced. The first half of the course will emphasize the early history of these relations, in which all three religions were formed. The second will trace particular medieval (some modern) developments.

Cross-listed with Jewish Studies

Sec. 01

Th 2-4

100.666

APPROACHES TO THE ELIGHTENMENT Bell   We will survey the major attempts to define and interpret the Enlightenment, from the mid 18th century to the present. We will focus primarily, but not exclusively, on France. We will consider both historical and philosophical approaches, and one of the hopes of this course is to establish a dialogue between the two.

Sec. 01

W 1-3 W 2-4

100.673

RESEARCH SEMINAR IN COLONIAL BRITISH AMERICA AND EARLY UNITED STATES Ditz

Sec. 01

TBA

100.677

RESEARCH SEMINAR IN EARLY MODERN BRITISH AMERICA   Greene   Graduate students only

Sec. 01

TBA

100.687

AMERICAN ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL HISTORY   Galambos  Course added 04/01/05

Sec. 01

TBA

100.695

PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY Walters

Graduate students only or Perm. Req’d.

Sec. 01

T 4-6pm

100.699

GRADUATE SEMINAR: U.S. INTELLECTUAL HISTORY   Ross   History 699-700 is graduate reading seminar in American intellectual history from the Puritans to the postmoderns. Readings are in primary and secondary sources as well as in historical theory.

Sec. 01

M 10-11:50 2-4

100.707

COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA   Russell-Wood   Graduate Seminar

Sec. 01

M 2-4

100.709

MODERN LATIN AMERICA   Knight Reading knowledge of Spanish. Graduate Students only

Sec. 01

W 2-4

100.717

GRADUATE SEMINAR: THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN ENGLAND, RUSSIA, AND BEYOND  Brooks  Limit 8  The seminar will explore process of industrialization in England in the 18th and 19th centuries and in Russia in the 19th and 20th centuries. Current perspectives on economic development will also be discussed.

Sec. 01

M 2-4

100.731

COLONIAL AFRICA Larson
Reading seminar in African cultural history

Sec. 01

T 10-12

100.735

EARLY MODERN BRITAIN Marshall

Sec. 01

TBA

100.737

SEMINAR IN MODERN CHINESE HISTORY Rowe    

Sec. 01

Th 12-2

100.739

TRANSNATIONAL AMERICA Kramer    This seminar will focus on ways of rethinking U.S. history in this period through transnational histories and trade, immigration, diaspora, war, and colonialism.

Sec. 01

M 2-4

100.759

DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA: PARADIGM AND PRACTICE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Berry
This course examines the history of development paradigms and practices in Africa in the 20th century, the changing international contexts in which they gained and lost influence, and their place in colonial and postcolonial social, economic and political transformations. Course canceled 09/14/05

Sec. 01

T 10-12

100.763

SEMINAR: COMPARATIVE WORLD HISTORY Staff   

Sec. 01

T 4-6pm

100.765

TOPICS IN WOMEN’S HISTORY  Ditz  Exploration of recent work in European and U.S. women’s history, focusing on some of the following: sexuality, cultural production, politics, family formation, work, religion, differences, civic orders.

Cross-listed with Study of Women, Gender, & Sexuality

Sec. 01

T 11-1

300.683

THE PHILOSOPHY OF NEUROSCIENCES OF EMOTIONS  Leys/Williams   

Cross-listed with History of Science and Technology, Political Science, History, Philosophy

Sec. 01

W 1-4

040.693

BACCCHUS AND DIONYSUS TODAY Detienne

Cross-listed with Classics, the Humanities Center, Romance Languages, Anthropology

Sec. 01

W 3-5

360.661

THE PHILOSOPHY AND  NEUROSCIENCES OF EMOTIONS  Leys/Williams  Topics include: The role of meaning and intention in the emotions; the nature of the intentional object; Darwinian approaches to the emotions; “natural kinds” and the emotions; and recent neurological approaches to the emotions.

Cross-listed with History of Science and Technology, Political Science, the Humanities Center, Philosophy and Interdepartmental

Sec. 01

W 1-4

The following seminars are for Graduate students only

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  Staff

Sec. 01

T 4-6pm

100.801

DISSERTATION RESEARCH

100.803

INDEPENDENT STUDY