100.104 (H,S)

              (W)

HISTORY OF OCCIDENTAL CIVILIZATION: MODERN EUROPE (3) Jelavich     Limit 15 per section

History of Europe from 1789 to present with focus on social and political thought.

Faculty Identified Course which includes discussion on Race, Ethnicity, Gender or Non-Western Cultures

Lec.

Sec. 01

02

03

04

05

06

07

08

09

10

11

12

MT 10

W 10

W 11

W 12

W 1

W 2

W 3

Th 9:30-10:20

Th 11

Th 12

Th 1

Th 2

Th 3

100.113 (H,S)

MAKING  AMERICA:  RACE RADICALISM, AND REFORM IN AMERICA, 1877-PRESENT  (3) Shell-Weiss  Limit 60 35  Beginning with the end of Reconstruction and continuing through the present day, this course will examine the complicated ways in which Americans attempted to come to terms with racial, ethnic, cultural, and other forms of diversity.

Sections 1-4 added 11/3/05 - Limit 15 per section

Cross-listed with Africana Studies

Lec.

Sec.01

02

03

04

MT 11

W 2

W 3

Th 2

Th 3

100.116 (H,S)

              (W)

HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA (3) Russell-Wood    Limit 15 per section This course will introduce students to the colonial antecedents of modern Latin America. The focus is on the economies and societies of Spanish and Portuguese America and the paths toward independence.  Cross listed with Latin American Studies

Sec. 07 and Sec. 08 added 11/23/04

Lec.

Sec. 01

02

03

04

05

06

07

08

MT 1

W 12

W 1

W 1

W 2

W 3

W 4

W 1

W 12

100.122 (H,S)

               (W)

INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN HISTORY SINCE 1880 (3) Berry          An introduction to the African past, with emphasis on colonialism and transformations after independence. A faculty identified course which includes discussion on race, gender, or non-western culture.  Cross listed with Center for Africana Studies

Sec. 01

MT 2-3:30

100.168 (H,S)

BLACK ABOLITIONISTS (3) McDaniel Limit 20  Discussion-based seminar on the writings and experiences of African American antislavery activists in the pre-Civil War North, as well as their legacy for later readical African American thinkers. Cross-listed with Africana Studies

Sec. 01

ThF 10:30-12

100.194 (H,S)

              (W)

UNDERGRADUATE SEMINAR (3) Morgan   Prereq: 100.193    Dept. majors only, year long course, must be taken in both semesters.  Required for all history majors and normally taken during the sophomore year. Deals with the elements of historical thinking and writing. Must be taken in sequence.

Sec. 01

M 9-11

100.292 (H)
             (W)

CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICAN JEWISH WRITERS (3) Ares    Limit 25    This course will familiarize students with literary works (especially short stories) of Latin American Jewish writers, from 1910 to the present. Topics will include the social and literary impact of major political movements such as nationalism, populism, and anti-imperialism on the Latin American Jewish community. A faculty identified course which includes discussion on race, gender, or non-western culture.  Cross listed with Jewish Studies and Latin American Studies

Sec. 01

M 2-4

100.307 (H,S)

CULTURAL FICTIONS OF SLAVERY: ENGLAND, AMERICA, AND BRAZIL, 1780-1888 (3) Wood Limit 12 An examination of the relative ways in which three Diasporic cultures have remembered, and fictionalized slavery. This includes thinking about the impact of slavery upon such areas as popular fiction and the pornographic industries. The course is of its essence interdisciplinary and will look at a variety of primary materials ranging from academic oil paintings and sculptures, to broadsides, ballads, pamphlets novels and poems. Authors include Thomas Clarkson, John Newton, John Stedman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Theodore Dwight Weld, Castro Alves, Luiz Gama, Joaquim Nabuco.  Artists include William Blake, J.M.W. Turner, James Gillray, Angelo Agostini and the slave sculptor Xavier Chagas.
Cross-listed with Africana Studies

Sec. 01

T 2-4

100.308 (H,S) (W)

NATURE & EMPIRE: REPRESENTATIONS OF THE NATURAL WORLD IN THE BRITISH ATLANTIC (1500-1800) (3) Murphy Limit 25 From hurricanes to rattlesnakes, Englishment encountered a natural world wholly unfamiliar, and often frightening, as they expanded their empire across the Atlantic. This course examines how this world was described, imagined, and depicted, and how such representations were mobilized for profit, ideology, and claims to gentility. Dean's Teaching Fellowship Course.

Sec. 01

MTh 2-3:20 T 2-4

100.312 (H)
             (W)

CAPITALISM, CLASS AND COMMUNITY IN MODERN JEWISH HISTORY (3) Moss Limit 20    The interplay of economic change, social class, religion and ethnicity in modern Jewish history; capitalism as integrative and disintegrative force; class conflict and socialism in Jewish life.  Cross listed with Jewish Studies

Sec. 01

T 2-4

100.314 (H,S)

              (W)

"THE SOCIALISM OF FOOLS" - ANTI-COMMERCIALISM AND ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE MODERN WORLD (3) Maischak   Limit 16   This class puts in historical and theoretical perspective the discourses of anti-Semitism and anti-commercialism since 1800; beyond the geopolitics and cultural politics which shape their current perception in public debate.   Cross-listed with Jewish Studies

Sec. 01

ThF 10:30-12

100.347 (H,S)

              (W)

EARLY MODERN CHINA (3) Rowe    The history of China from the 16th to late 19th centuries.

Sec. 01

ThF 9-10:30

100.352 (H)

(W)

POLITICS AND CULTURE IN THE AGE OF PASTERNAK  (3) Brooks  Limit 32
This course concerns Russian  history, literature, and the arts from the rise of modernism until the death of Stalin.

Sec. 01

Th 12-3

100.356 (H,S)
              (W)

THE BUDDHIST EXPERIENCE (3) Lievens   Limit 25
History theories and practices in the East Asian World.   Cross-listed with East Asian Studies

Sec. 01

ThF 10:30-12

100.361 (H,S)

              (W)

RUSSIA IN THE AGE OF TOLSTOY AND DOSTOEVSKY (3) Brooks      This course is about literature and history in the era of the greatest Russian novels.

Sec. 01

F 12-3

100.376 (H,S)

              (W)

BALTIMORE AS HISTORICAL SITE (3) Ryan     Limit 20 This class will use the historical sites of Baltimore to demonstrate the spatial context of major events in US and urban history. Faculty Identified Course which includes discussion on Race, Ethnicity, Gender or Non-Western Cultures

Sec. 01

W T 2-4

100.377 (H)

              (W)

HERETICS, WITCHES, AND SECRET JEWS: SOCIAL CONTROL AND THE INQUISITION IN EUROPE AND THE NEW WORLD, 1200-1700 (3) Rowe  Limit 15  This course seeks to explore the Inquisition, its origins, and its role as a mechanism for social control in medieval and early modern Europe and the Americas. Dean's Teaching Fellowship Course Cross-listed with Jewish Studies

Sec. 01

W 2-4

100.395 (H)

              (W)

POPULAR CONCEPTIONS OF RACE IN UNITED STATES HISTORY (3) O'Malley  Limit 20  An exploration of the varied ways race has been perceived and constructed in American history, examining Americans' use of race both to describe themselves and to label others. Dean's Teaching Fellowship Course Cross-listed with Africana Studies

Sec. 01

MW 2-3:30

100.397 (H,S)

             (W)

CULTURE AND POLITICS IN MODERN BRITAIN (3) Walkowitz   Perm. Req'd. Limit 15    Topics to be covered: art and industry, popular movements, exhibitions and race, imperial culture, moral and medical regulations, and the experience of war.  Faculty Identified Course which includes discussion on Race, Ethnicity, Gender or Non-Western Cultures

Sec. 01

T 2-4

100.400 (H,S)

              (W)

AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY (3) Ross     Limit 20 per section A study of basic traditions of American thought and their leading exemplars, from the post-Civil War turn toward naturalism to contemporary advocates of postmodern culture.

Lec.

Sec. 01

02

MW 12

T 12

W 1

100.406 (H,S)

              (W)

AMERICAN BUSINESS IN THE AGE OF THE MODERN CORPORATION (3) Galambos   Limit 25  This course will focus on business organizations, their performance and sociopolitical relations in the 20th and 21st centuries. Faculty Identified Course which includes discussion on Race, Ethnicity, Gender or Non-Western Cultures

Sec. 01

MT 11-1

100.424 (H,S)

              (W)

WOMEN IN MODERN CHINESE HISTORY (3) Meyer-Fong   Limit 15  Prereq: one course in History, East Asian Studies or Studies Of Women, Gender and Sexuality   This course examines the experiences 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. Faculty Identified Course which includes discussion on Race, Ethnicity, Gender or Non-Western Cultures Cross-listed with Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality

Sec. 01

M 2-4

100.470 (H,S)

               (W)

MONUMENTS & MEMORY IN CROSS-CULTURAL CONTEXT (3) Meyer-Fong Limit 15  Perm.Req'd. Limited to those in Washington Humanities Program. Cross-listed with History of Art & East Asian Studies Course added 12/01/04

Sec. 01

TBA

100.479 (H,S)

               (W)

CHINESE URBAN HISTORY (3) Rowe Limit 12   The role of cities in Chinese history, from the T'ang Dynasty (618 - 906AD) to the present. Faculty Identified Course which includes discussion on Race, Ethnicity, Gender or Non-Western Cultures

Sec. 01

Th 12-2

100.498 (H,S)

COLLOQUIM: HISTORY OF FAMILY AND GENDER IN THE UNITED STATES (3) Ditz     Limit 20  Prereq: Experience in upper level Humanities or social science seminars.       A reading and discussion course covering a variety of topics in family and gender history including the history of emotional life and sentiment; the politics and public imagination of sexuality and gender; varieties of familial experience as conditioned by race, ethnicity, and class; the extent and limits of women’s power and authority.   Cross-listed with Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality

Sec. 01

T 2-4

070.335 (H,S)

GENDER SEXUALITY AND MODERN ISLAM (3) Lal   Limit 25 Senior undergraduates only and open to graduates     This course will use feminist theoretical reading strategies to ask what we can learn about notions of gender and sexuality in Islamic cultures.  Readings include social texts, books of advice, films, as well as writings of activists to see how they ground themselves in this historical heritage to constitute contesting positions regarding questions of family, domesticity, and more generally in relation to norms of sociality and everyday life.  Cross-listed with History and Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality

Sec. 01

W 2-5

300.318 (H,S)
              (W)

JUSTICE, TRUTH, AND RECONCILIATION: RESPONSES TO GENOCIDE AND TERROR (3) Leys  Limit 20   A research seminar on the limits of justice and the possibilities of reconciliation in the aftermath of 20th century genocides and mass atrocities. Cross-listed with History, Jewish Studies, Anthropology and Political Science

Sec. 01

W 1-3

100.508 (H,S)

              (W)

SENIOR THESIS SEMINAR (3) Walters Senior History majors only 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

100.536

INDEPENDENT STUDY 

100.632

THE LITERATURE AND ART OF RUSSIAN MODERNISM   Brooks    Perm. Req’d     The course will explore the art and literature of Russian modernism, 1890-1935. Participants will discuss critical and original works, design a research project, and write a short essay on a central theme.

Sec. 01

M 12-3

100.634

SPAIN AND IT’S EMPIRE Kagan/Seiber Note: This course is the same course as the Romance Languages course 212.637     This will be a seminar on the relationships between History and Literature in the Spanish Golden Age.  Studies on paleography, historiography, lexicography, literary history and patronage, the reading public, and book production and circulation will be the primary focus. The primary literary and historical texts will include the Lazarillo de Tormes, Quevedo's Buscon, Lope de Vega's Fuenteovejuna,  Cabrera de Cordoba's Relaciones de las cosas sucedidas en la Corte de Espana and Tome Pinheiro de Veiga's Fastiginia, and Calderon's El sitio de Breda.  Reports will be required on supplementary critical bibliography. Cross-listed with Romance Languages and Literatures

Sec. 01

W 2-4

100.652

EUROPEAN SOCIALIST THOUGHT  Jelavich   Socialist, communist, and anarchist theories since Marx.  Cross-listed with German

Sec. 01

W 2-4

100.668

READING SEMINAR: GRADUATE INTRODUCTION TO MODERN JEWISH HISTORY Moss  Graduate students only  Introduces major themes and research literature in modern Jewish history. Open to non-specialties.  Cross-listed with Jewish Studies

Sec. 01

Th 9-11

100.670

READING SEMINAR: CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE BRITISH COLONIES IN NORTH AMERICA & THE EARLY UNITED STATES  Ditz   Readings in the "new" cultural history of North America. Interdisciplinary approach to such topics as cultural encounters, culture of consumption; writing, speech and power; formation of Imperial and national identities.  Introduces a variety of approaches to the interpretation of sources.

Sec. 01

W 1-4

100.674

RESEARCH SEMINAR: COLONIAL BRITISH AMERICA AND EARLY UNITED STATES Ditz Biweekly works in progress group for historians of Early America.

Sec. 01

TBA

100.676

COLLOQUIM: SOCIOLOGY OF EARLY MODERN BRITISH-AMERICAN COLONIZATION, 1580-1783  Greene

Sec. 01

TBA

100.678

RESEARCH SEMINAR: EARLY MODERN COLONIAL BRITISH AMERICA Greene

Sec. 01

M 6-8pm

100.684

RESEARCH SEMINAR IN ATLANTIC HISTORY  Morgan   The aim of this course is to explore the latest trends and current literature in the burgeoning field of Atlantic history, c.1500-1800.

Sec. 01

W 6-8pm

100.696

PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY Walters Perm. Req’d   Seminar discussing scholarly works across a wide range of US social and cultural history.    Faculty Identified Course which includes discussion on Race, Ethnicity, Gender or Non-Western Cultures

Sec. 01

M 2-4

100.712

TOPICS IN BRAZILIAN HISTORY  Russell-Wood   This is an intensive reading (predominantly in the Portuguese language) course for graduates of primary published works and secondary sources on the historiography of colonial Brazil.

Sec. 01

T 2-4

100.722

TOPICS IN AFRICAN HISTORY: LAND, POWER, AND COMMUNITY Berry Faculty Identified Course which includes discussion on Race, Ethnicity, Gender or Non-Western Cultures
Cross-listed with Center for Africana Studies

Sec. 01

T 10-12

100.736

EARLY MODERN BRITAIN Marshall   Graduate students only.       Faculty Identified Course which includes discussion on Race, Ethnicity, Gender or Non-Western Cultures

Sec. 01

W 10:30-1

100.764

GENERAL SEMINAR: COMPARATIVE WORLD HISTORY Staff

Sec. 01

T 4-6pm

100.778

TOPICS IN GENDER HISTORY Ryan This seminar continues the discussion of gender in a transnational perspective with a focus on the geographical specializations and research interests of the participants. Cross-listed with Studies of Women, Gender And Sexuality

Sec. 01

W 10-12

100.782

THE SEMINAR Staff

Sec. 01

M 4-6pm

100.784

SEMINAR: MEDIEVAL EUROPE  Staff

Sec. 01

Th 4-6pm

100.786

GENERAL SEMINAR: EARLY MODERN EUROPE Staff

Sec. 01

Th 4-6pm

100.788

GENERAL SEMINAR: MODERN EUROPE Staff

Sec. 01

Th 4-6pm

100.790

GENERAL SEMINAR: AMERICA Staff

Sec. 01

W 4-6pm

100.792

GENERAL SEMINAR: LATIN AMERICA Staff

Sec. 01

T 4-6pm

100.794

GENERAL SEMINAR: AFRICA Staff

Sec. 01

T 4-6pm

040.688

COMPARATIVE APPROACHES TO ANCIENT RITUAL, RELIGION,AND SOCIETY Detienne/Yatromanolakis
Cross listed with Classics, Anthropology, and Humanities Center

Sec. 01

W 3-5

070.627

THE IDEA OF THE MIDDLE CLASS Pandey    Cross-listed with Anthropology

Sec. 01

W 3-5pm

212.637

INTERDISCIPLINARY SEMINAR IN SPANISH HISTORY AND LITERATURE Seiber/Kagan     This will be a seminar on the relationships between History and Literature in the Spanish Golden Age.  Studies on paleography, historiography, lexicography, literary history and patronage, the reading public, and book production and circulation will be the primary focus.The primary literary and historical texts will include the Lazarillo de Tormes, Quevedo’s Buscon, Lope de Vega’s Fuenteovejuna,  Cabrera de Cordoba’s Relaciones de las cosas sucedidas en la Corte de Espana and Tome Pinheiro de Veiga’s Fastiginia, and Calderon’s El sitio de Breda.  Reports will be required on supplementary critical bibliography. Cross-listed with History

Sec. 01

W 2-4

300.619

TRAUMA THEORY NOW Leys
A discussion of current debates about trauma, testimony, memory, and representation after Auschwitz.  Texts by Freud, Derrida, Felman, Caruth, LaCapra, Zizek,and others.  Films by Resnais (Hiroshima mon amour) and Lanzmann (Shoah).  Cross-listed with History of Science and Technology, History, Anthropology, and Political Science

Sec. 01

T 1-4

360.670

GENERAL SEMINAR: INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL STUDIES IN CULTURE, POWER & HISTORY   Northcott   Graduate students only or instructor=s consent for Senior undergraduates. Attendance is mandatory at all seminar meetings Cross-listed with Anthropology, History and Sociology

Sec. 01

Th 4-6pm

100.802

DISSERTATION RESEARCH

100.804

INDEPENDENT STUDY