HISTORY

100.103 (H,S)

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HISTORY OF OCCIDENTAL CIVILIZATION: EUROPE AND THE WIDER WORLD (3) Kagan   Limit 15 per section   Course will examine principal developments in early modern European history with special attention to the expansion of Europe and European interaction with other cultures in Africa, Asia, and the Americas, north and south. Faculty Identified Course which includes discussion on Race, Ethnicity, Gender or Non-Western Cultures  Cross-listed with Public Health Studies

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100.104 (H,S)

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HISTORY OF OCCIDENTAL CIVILIZATION: MODERN EUROPE (3) Brooks     Limit 15 per section   A survey of European history from the French Revolution to the present that provides political, social, economical, and culture perspectives.  Faculty Identified Course which includes discussion on Race, Ethnicity, Gender or Non-Western Cultures

Sections 13 & 14 added 12/12/05

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100.131 (H,S)  (W)

HISTORY OF EAST ASIA (3) Rowe       A topical introduction to the histories of China and Japan. Major topics include the classical traditions of ethical and political thought; the development of statecraft; the foundations of rural society; and cultural interaction within East Asia and between East Asia and the West. 

Sec. 01

ThF 9-10:30

100.194 (H,S)

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UNDERGRADUATE SEMINAR IN HISTORY (3) Johnson    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

W 12-2

100.317 (H)

HISTORY OF PHOTOJOURNALISM IN THE UNITED STATES (3) Hijar    Limit 20    This course is a survey of photojournalism in the U.S. and emphasizes understanding the medium in historical perspective, and developing the analytical skills to see media images with a critical eye. Dean's Teaching Fellowship Course

Cross-listed with Film & Media and Study of Women, Gender, & Sexuality

Sec. 01

TTh 2-3:30

100.329 (H,S)

CHINESE THOUGHT SEMINAR (3) Lievens   Limit 20     Reading China's classical philosophers: Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, and Guanzi

Sec. 01

ThF 10:30-12

100.331 (H,S)

SHTETL, CITY, DEATH CAMP, SUBURB, STATE: SPACES OF JEWISH MODERNITY IN EUROPE, AMERICA, AND ISRAEL (3) Moss Limit 30 35 Jewish modernity through the real and imagined spatial environments in which it took shape.  The shtetl as metonym for tradition and as reality; Jewish life in Odessa, Petersburg, Tel-Aviv, and Jerusalem; spaces of violence, extrusion, and genocide; liberal modernity in New York and the burbs; spaces of settlement, self-determination, and sovereignty in Palestine and Israel.

Cross-listed with Jewish Studies

Sec. 01

Th 2-4

100.350 (H,S) (W)

THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN AMERICA (3) Dailey   Limit 20    Seminar focuses on the social, political, and intellectual history of the African American struggle for equality in the United States from 1900 through the present.   
Cross-listed with Africana  Studies

Sec. 01

Th 2-4

100.357 (H,S)

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CONVERSION AND CONTROL: RELIGION IN THE SPANISH EMPIRE (3) Lynn Hossain   Limit 15  
Prereq: 100.103 recommended    This course explores the Spanish crown's treatment of perceived external & internal religious threats - Muslims, Jews, Protestants, and animist Amerindians - within the framework of imperial ambition, circa 1450-1650 

Dean's Teaching Fellowship Course

Sec. 01

MW 2-3:30

100.379 (H,S)

CHURCH AND STATE IN THE MIDDLE AGES: POWER, AUTHORITY, AND SOVEREIGNTY (3) Monagle   Limit 15   This course will chart the history of the intersection of ideas of power and the sacred in Europe in the Middle Ages.
Dean's Teaching Fellowship Course

Sec. 01

Th 2-4

100.392 (H,S)

DEVELOPMENT OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION: 1776-1937 (3) Fruchtman   Limit 15   This seminar will focus on the intellectual and political ideas and debates that produced the Constitution of 1787, the struggle between national supremacy and state sovereignty until the Civil War, and the development of the new judicial review after 1870.

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W 1-3

100.411 (H,S)

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COMPARATIVE FREEDOM STRUGGLES: US & SOUTH AFRICA   (3) Shell-Weiss  Limit 35 25     This course explores and compares the Anti-Apartheid Struggle in South Africa and the Movement for African-American Civil Rights in the United States using a wide variety of literature, primary and secondary works.

Cross-listed with Africana Studies and Study of Women, Gender, & Sexuality

Sec. 01

M 2-4

100.463 (H,S)

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AFRICAN DIASPORAS: THE BRAZILIAN EXPERIENCE (3) Russell-Wood    Limit 15   Historical dimensions of the African presence in Brazil in the colonial period.

Cross-listed with Africana Studies, Latin American Studies, and Public Health Studies

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MT 9

100.482 (H,S)  (W)

COLLOQUIUM: HISTORIOGRAPHY OF MODERN CHINA (3) Rowe  Limit 12 A survey of assumptions and approaches in the study of Modern Chinese history, as written by Chinese, Japanese, and Western historians.

Sec. 01

Th 12-2

100.493 (H,S)

LITERATURE AND ART IN REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA (3) Brooks Limit 15     This course concerns art and revolution. The focus is on Russia but students may consider the problem more generally. Requirements include either a research paper or a critical bibliography. Readings will chiefly concern Russia though there will be some comparative focus. Requirements will include either a substantative research essay or a critical commentary on reading. Same as 100.627

Sec. 01

Th 2-4

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.  Reading and discussion, topics vary from year to year, but may include patriarchal households and property relations in early America; women and wage work during early industrialization; ideology of domesticity and its critics; African American family and gender relations; the politics of reproduction and childbearing. Emphasis is on the 18th and 19th centuries, with some attention to the 20th century. Readings stress interdisciplinary perspectives. 

Cross-listed with Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

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W 2-4

191.410 (H,S)

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DEFENDING THE NATION: ISRAEL’S CULTURE OF NATIONAL SECURITY  (3) Levine   Limit 15    Prereq: Background in International Relations and Middle East or Perm. Req’d.

Cross-listed with Jewish Studies and Political Science

Sec. 01

Th 1-3

360.219 (H,S)

EXPLORING THE MUSEUM: HISTORY, THEORY, AND PRACTICE Leslie/Rodini     
Sec. 01: Limit 30 – 3 credits
Sec. 02: Limit 15 – 5 credits (requires lab)

Cross-listed with Interdepartmental, History of Science & Technology, Near Eastern Studies, Romance Languages and Literatures, and History of Art

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360.457 (H,S)

RICHARD WRIGHT AND MODERNISM: PHILOSOPHY, LITERATURE, AND POLITICS (3) Hayes Limit 15 This Seminar provides an examination of the modern black writer Richard Wright. We will interrogate Wright's critique of modern Western civilization, his interpretation of the black experience, and his involvement in readical politics.

Cross-listed with Africana Studies, Interdepartmental, Political Science, Sociology, and Study of Women, Gender, & Sexuality

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W 2-4:30

360.392 (H) 508

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IMAGINING THE WORLD FROM CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY TO THE COLONIZATION OF THE AMERICAS (3) Kupfer     Limit 25 15   Perm. Req’d. Open only to students in Humanities Undergraduate Fellowship in D.C.      

Cross-listed with History, History of Art, and the Humanities Center

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100.502

INTERNSHIP

100.508 (H,S)

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SENIOR THESIS SEMINAR (3) Knight 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.

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T 6-8pm

100.536

INDEPENDENT STUDY 

100.627

LITERATURE AND ART IN REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA Brooks Limit 10   This course concerns art and revolution. The focus is on Russia but students may consider the problem more generally. Requirements include either a research paper or a critical bibliography. Readings will chiefly concern Russia though there will be some comparative focus. Requirements will include either a substantative research essay or a critical commentary on reading. Same as 100.493

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Th 2-4

100.633

SPAIN AND ITS EMPIRE   Kagan

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TBA

100.644

THE MODERN SOUTH Dailey      

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TBA

100.650

THE AMERICAN SOUTH  Johnson       

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W 6-8pm

100.656

JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY, AND ISLAM II Nirenberg   Open only to students that have completed fall course 100.657    A continuation of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam through the Middle Ages.

Cross-listed with Jewish Studies

Sec. 01

M 1-3

100.661

FRANCE: CULTURE, SOCIETY, POLITICS, 1700-1850 Bell   Topics in early modern French history

Sec. 01

W 1-3

100.674

RESEARCH SEMINAR: COLONIAL BRITISH AMERICA AND EARLY UNITED STATES Ditz

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M 12-2

100.678

RESEARCH SEMINAR: EARLY MODERN COLONIAL BRITISH AMERICA Greene

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TBA

100.682

THE CULTURAL SPHERE: CONCEPT, INSTITUTION, AND PRACTICE Moss   Culture as key modern concept and institution and its relations with the arts, the market, the state, nationalism, and modern selfhood.  Goal of the class is both to map the history of this institution and to explore promising methodologies across the human sciences. Readings will include some combination of key primary sources on culture as idea (Schiller, Herder, Arnold), theoretical approaches (Simmel, formalist theories, Williams, institutionalism approaches, Bourdieus Rules of Art, Bakhtin); monographic sources approaching cultural spheres and projects in specific national, institutional, and generic contexts (Williams, Culture and Society; Woodmansee, Author, Art, and the Market; Schorske, Fin-de-siecle Vienna; Gilroy, Black Atlantic; Burger, Theory of the Avant-Garde; Jusdanis, Belated Modernity and Aesthetic Culture).

Cross listed with Jewish Studies

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W 10-12

100.688

AMERICAN ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL HISTORY Course added 11/04/05

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TBA

100.692

HISTORIES OF THE SAHARAN WORLD Hall     This is a graduate reading course designed to provide students with an overview of important historical issues and historiography that concern the region of the circum Sahara. By treating the Sahara as a network traversed by webs of connection (commercial, intellectual, human migration), we will be able to consider the histories of North Africa, the Nile Valley, and the West African Sahel together.

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T 10-12

100.696

PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY     Course added 12/20/05

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TBA

100.700

AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY Ross     Continuation of 100.699

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M 10-12

100.708

COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA Russell-Wood 

Cross-listed with Latin American  Studies

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M 2-4

100.710
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MODERN LATIN AMERICA Knight 

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W 2-4

100.734

20TH CENTURY EUROPEAN HISTORY Brooks The seminar will involve a wide reading of major commentaries on common aspects of European history. Th objective is to explore major historiographical issues as well as the changing nature of Europe as a set of inter-related societies. Course added 01/30/06

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100.764

GENERAL SEMINAR: COMPARATIVE WORLD HISTORY Staff

Sec. 01

T 4-6pm

100.766

PROBLEMS IN WOMEN’S HISTORY Ditz Continuation of 100.765 (Fall)   Cross-listed with Studies of Women, Gender And Sexuality

Sec. 01

T 12-3

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

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W 4-6pm

100.792

GENERAL SEMINAR: LATIN AMERICA Staff

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T 4-6pm

100.794

GENERAL SEMINAR: AFRICA Staff

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T 4-6pm

040.602

COMPARATIVE HISTORICITIES: NATION, HISTORIOGRAPHY, MYTHIDEOLOGY  Detienne  Limit 8

Cross listed with Anthropology, Classics, Humanities Center, Philosophy and Romance Languages & Literatures

Sec. 01

W 3-5

360.670

GENERAL SEMINAR: INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL STUDIES IN CULTURE, POWER & HISTORY   Grovogui    Graduate students only or instructor's consent for Senior undergraduates. Attendance is mandatory at all seminar meetings

Cross-listed with Anthropology, Sociology, and Interdepartmental

Sec. 01

Th 4-6pm

300.674

FREUD’S MOSES Leys

Cross-listed with Anthropology, History, Political Science, Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, and Jewish Studies

Sec. 01

W 1-4

212.683

PHILOLOGY BECOMES PHILOSOPHY: THE LAMIA OF ANGELA POLIZIANO (1454-94) Celenza (see Romance Languages for course description) Course added 01/17/06

Sec. 01

T 3-5pm

100.802

DISSERTATION RESEARCH

100.804

INDEPENDENT STUDY