HISTORY

100.104 (H,S)
(W)

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100.122 (H,S)
(W)

HISTORY OF AFRICA (3) Berry Limit 15 per section Introduction to the African past, Africa's experiences with colonial rule, and its place in the contemporary world.

Sec. 04 added 11/20/06

Sec. 05 added 12/11/06

MT 10
W 12
W 1
W 2
W 2
W 1

100.180 (H,S)

CLASSICS OF AMERICAN THOUGHT (3) RossLimit 20 15 An introduction to American intellectual history by way of some of the classic texts in the American tradition, from the Puritans to the postmoderns.

M 12-2

100.194 (H,S)
(W)

UNDERGRADUATE SEMINAR IN HISTORY (3) Johnson Limit 45 Dept. majors only 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.

W 12-2

100.235 (H,S)
(W)

APOSTATES AND CONVERTS: JEWISH-CHRISTIAN RELATIONS IN MEDIEVAL AND MODERN TIMES (3) Horowitz Limit 45 Through the individual histories of Jews and Christians who converted from one religion to the other, this course examines the complex relations between two biblically-based religions and their adherents between 800-1800, primarily in Europe. Cross-listed with Jewish Studies

TTh 12

100.244 (H,S)
(W)

SHIPWRECK AND EMPIRE (3) Russell-Wood Limit 25 Using contemporary shipwreck narratives for the Atlantic, Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean from the 16th and 17th centuries, this course will address topics such as gender, ethnicity, identity, power and authority, social mobility, relationships between men of the sea and landsmen, religion, recreational activities, diet, and the reactions of passengers and crew to disaster and its aftermath.
Cross-listed with Latin American Studies

MT 11

100.261 (H,S)

ROME’S RESONANCE:  CATHOLICISM IN AMERICAN CULTURE (3) Moran Limit 15 An investigation of Catholicism's role in the making of American culture. We will explore how Catholicism was practiced by the faithful, debated by intellectuals, and portrayed in popular media.
Dean's Teaching Fellowship Course

Th 2-5

100.263 (H,S)
(W)

WOMEN IN ENGLAND, 1500-1700 (3) Herbert Bilby   Limit 20 This course explores how early modern English women lived, worked, and played. We will read women's diaries, letters, and other primary sources to discover women's own voices, and get an intimate view of their hopes, thoughts, and daily lives.
Dean's Teaching Fellowship Course

MTh 2-3:15

100.281 (H,S)
(W)

GOSSIP, SCANDAL AND REPUTATION:  A CULTURAL HISTORY OF EARLY AMERICA (3) Roney Limit 20  This course uses the lens of reputation and scandal to analyze topics including governance, witchcraft, gender, capital punishment and slavery in early America.
Dean's Teaching Fellowship Course

MW 10

100.283(H,S)
(W)

CRISIS & CATASTROPHE IN 18TH CENTURY THOUGHT (3) Ashburn Miller  Limit 15  This course analyzes eighteenth-century disasters and crises, such as earthquakes, plague, and revolution, and their impact on the thought of the Enlightenment.
Dean's Teaching Fellowship Course

Th 1-4

100.284 (H,S)
(W)

WAR AND POSTWAR REMINISCENCES IN EAST ASIA: THE IMJIN AND MANCHU INVASIONS OF CHINA AND KOREA (3) Park Limit 25 An exploration of these wars and their emotional repercussions in the 17th and 20th centuries, the experience and memory of these conflicts and the dialogue between our pasts and presents.
Dean's Teaching Fellowship Course

ThF 10:30-12

100.310(H,S)
(W)

THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS LIFE DURING THE MIDDLE AGES (3) Lehmijoki-Gardner Limit 60 50 This course looks at the history of medieval church and civilization from the perspectives of eremitical, monastic, parochial, mendicant, and lay ways of religious life. We shall examine the historical circumstances that shaped the central medieval religious institutions as well as analyze the key concepts and practices associated with these different ways of life.

MW 11

100.329 (H,S)

CHINESE THOUGHT (3) Lievens Limit 30 Introduction to classical ancient Chinese philosophy, Confucianism, and Daoism.

ThF 10:30-12

100.348 (H,S)
(W)

TWENTIETH-CENTURY CHINA(3) Rowe Limit 70 The history of China from about 1900 to the present.

ThF 9-10:30

100.353 (H,S)

REMEMBERING VIETNAM:  DOCUMENTING, CAPTURING, AND PRESERVING A DIVISIVE WAR (4) Walters Limit 16 This is a course to teach students about a divisive war through gathering images, interviews, and other data. A lab unit in digital media is required (represented by Thurs 10 to 12 component of the course scheduled in the Digital Media Center). Cross-listed with Program in Museums & Society

TTh 10-12

100.359 (H,S)
(W)

WOMEN’S LABOR MIGRATIONS & THE POLITICS OF EXCHANGE IN THE AMERICAS (3) Shell-Weiss Limit 10 Comparative history of women's regional and international labor migrations over the last 120 years form the standpoint of both sending and receiving regions.

M 2-4

100.376 (H,S)
(W)

BALTIMORE AS HISTORIC SITE (3)  Ryan  Limit 15  Examines American history and the cultural landscape from on the ground and in the streets of Baltimore. Cross-listed with Program in Museums & Society

M 2-4

100.380 (H,S)
(W)

HISTORY OF ISLAMIC MYSTICISM (3) Hall   Limit 30   This course traces the intellectual and social development of Islamic mysticism (Sufism) from its origins in the early Islamic Middle East up to the 20th century. The focus will be on both primary texts written by Sufis and their opponents, and the social & political use of Sufism in a range of geographical locations in Africa and Asia.

ThF 10:30-12

100.388 (H,S)
(W)

EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY FROM ADAM SMITH TO NIETZSCHE (3) Jelavich Limit 30 40   A survey of major thinkers who supported or opposed capitalism and democracy.

MTW 10

100.402 (H,S)
(W)

THE ENLIGHTENMENT (3) Marshall   Limit 25  Seminar-style course discussing Enlightenment thought from Locke and Spinoza to the Scottish Enlightenment, Rousseau, and Kant, combining readings of their works with historians' accounts of Enlightenment thought and culture.

MT 10

100.412(H,S)
(W)

THE MIND OF THE FOUNDERS:  POLICITAL THOUGHT IN THE ERA OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (3) Sakosky  Limit 20   Prereq:  100.112 or other previous course in pre-1820 U.S. History or Perm. Req’d    Course explores intellectual history of the era of the American Revolution, 1740-1800 with focus on questions of politics, government, empire, the Constitution, natural and moral philosophy.

ThF 9-10:30

100.428 (H,S)
(W)

LONDON IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (3)  Walkowitz  Limit 20 15 Metropolis and Empire, rise of mass culture and consumption, social investigations and fictions of the city, war, built environment, slums and suburbia, fascism and popular front politics, multiracial London.

W 2-4

100.473 (H,S)
(W)

THE INDIAN OCEAN:  ECONOMY, SOCIETY, DIASPORA (3) Larson    Limit 20   A seminar level survey of the history of the Indian Ocean with an emphasis on human diaspora.

M 2-4

100.479 (H,S)
(W)

CHINESE URBAN HISTORY (3) Rowe  Limit 12   Reading and discussion of works in Western languages on the role of cities in Chinese society, from the Tang dynasty to the present. Topics include city formation, rural-urban and inter-urban relations, urban social structure; conflict and community; and urban policies of the imperial, republican, and communist states.

Th 12-2

100.498 (H,S)

COLLOQUIM: HISTORY OF FAMILY AND GENDER IN THE UNITED STATES (3) Ditz Limit 20 17 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 19thcenturies, with some attention to the 20th century. Readings stress interdisciplinary perspectives. Cross-listed with Women, Gender, & Sexuality

T 2-4

070.386 (H,S)
(W)

“MAIL ORDER BRIDES?”  UNDERSTANDING THE PHILIPPINES IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN CONTEXT (3) Cannell   Limit 35   Prereq: Students must have taken a required course in Anthropology. Permission required if prerequisite is not met
Cross-listed with Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Anthropology, and Political Science

WF 2-3:30

300.334 (H)
        

MODERN JEWISH THOUGHT AND PHILOSOPHY (3) Shuster   Limit 25   Cross-listed with Jewish Studies, the Humanities Center, and Philosophy

T 3-5:30

300.372 (H,S)
        

HOLOCAUST TESTIMONIES  (3) Leys Limit 20    Cross-listed with History of Science and Technology, the Humanities Center, and Anthropology

M 2-4

300.382 (H)
        

PHILOSOPHY, MEMORY, AND RECONSTRUCTION:  WESTERN EUROPE AFTER WORLD WAR II (3) Geroulanos  Limit 25  
Cross-listed with German and Romance Languages and Literatures and the Humanities Center
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Course

W 5-8pm

T 7-9pm

389.203 (H,S)
(W)

MUSEUM MATTERS (3)  Rodini Limit 15 Prereq: Freshmen & Sophomores only or Perm. Req’d   Students who have enrolled in 360.219.02 may not register for this course Through weekly field trips, group discussion, and analytical writing assignments, this course examines how museums gather, interpret, and present their holdings. Museum controversies, challenges, conflicts are examined. M&S practicum course.
Cross-listed with History of Art, Anthropology, and Museums and Society

Th 1-5

100.502

INTERNSHIP Staff
Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory only

100.508 (H,S)
(W)

SENIOR THESIS Knight 
Dept. 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.

T 6-8pm

100.536
(W)

INDEPENDENT STUDY Staff

100.635

RUSSIAN HISTORY SEMINAR  Brooks Limit 10

TBA

100.650

THE AMERICAN SOUTH  Johnson  Limit 15  Continuation of 100.649 (Fall)

W 6-8pm

100.659

THE FIRST FRENCH EMPIRE, 1535-1804  Bell  Limit 20  An intensive introduction to French expansion abroad through 1804.  Focus on Canada and the Caribbean.

T 2-4

100.671

GERMANY SINCE 1918 Jelavich  
Limit 25   Political, social, and cultural developments from the Weimar Republic to Reunification.

T 12-2

100.678

RESEARCH SEMINAR: EARLY MODERN COLONIAL BRITISH AMERICA Greene  Limit 15

TBA

100.696

PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY Walters     Limit 15   Intensive reading in 19th & 20th century U.S. social and cultural history.

TBA

100.701

ON THE ROAD:  EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN TRAVELERS ENCOUNTER THE JEWS  Horowitz  Limit 15  Through the accounts of travelers in Europe and the Middle East between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries the course will explore the impact of the travel experience upon attitudes towards Jews and Judaism. It will also examine the interaction of those attitudes with racism and Orientalism.
Cross-listed with Jewish Studies

T 4-6pm

100.702

RACE AND MIGRATION IN MODERN HISTORY Shell-Weiss  Limit 12  This graduate seminar explores how the movement of people reshapes how we understand modern world history and the historical construction of racial identities. Readings will include a range of interdisciplinary works, including core texts in migration and social theory. Cross-listed with Sociology and Political Science

T 10-12

100.704

AFRICA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN Larson Limit 15 An examination of Africa and its relationship to the Indian Ocean from antiquity to the present. A counterpoint to Africa and the Atlantic.

TBA

100.708

COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA
Russell-Wood  Limit 15

TBA

100.710

MODERN LATIN AMERICA Knight  Limit 15

W 2-4

100.722

TOPICS IN AFRICAN HISTORY Berry Limit 10   Methods of historical inquiry in African historiography with emphasis on research design.

T 2-4

100.728

MEDIEVAL SEMINAR: HISTORICAL WRITING IN THE MIDDLE AGES  Spiegel
Prereq: 100.727 (Fall) No new enrollments
Limit 12

Th 2-4

100.736

EARLY MODERN BRITAIN Marshall  Limit 15

TBA

100.743

THE CITY AND THE SEXES  Ryan Limit 15  This semester will be focused on the 20th century literature and research presentations on the 19th or 20th centuries. (course is a continuation of course 100.726 held in Fall 2006).

T 4-6pm

100.764

COMPARATIVE WORLD HISTORY Staff   Limit 15

T 4-6pm

100.768

LONDON WORLD CITY Walkowitz   Limit 15   Continuation of 100.767 (must be taken in sequence)

T 10-12

100.780

RESEARCH SEMINAR IN THE HISTORY OF WOMEN & GENDER  Ditz   Limit 15

W 9-12

100.782

THE SEMINAR  Staff  Limit 50

M 4-6pm

100.784

SEMINAR: MEDIEVAL EUROPE  Staff Limit 1

Th 4-6pm

100.786

GENERAL SEMINAR: EARLY MODERN EUROPE Staff Limit 15

Th 4-6pm

100.788

GENERAL SEMINAR: MODERN EUROPE Staff  Limit 15

Th 4-6pm

100.790

GENERAL SEMINAR: AMERICA Staff Limit 30

W 4-6pm

100.792

GENERAL SEMINAR: LATIN AMERICA Staff  Limit 15

T 4-6pm

100.794

GENERAL SEMINAR: AFRICA Staff  Limit 15

T 4-6pm

300.619

TRAUMA THEORY NOW Leys  Limit 20 Cross-listed with History of Science and Technology, Anthropology, Philosophy, the Humanities Center, and English

T 1-4

360.670

GENERAL SEMINAR: INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL STUDIES IN CULTURE, POWER & HISTORY Grovogui Limit 15 Graduate students only or instructor’s consent for Senior undergraduates. Attendance is mandatory at all seminar meetings
Cross-listed with Anthropology, Sociology, and Interdepartmentalq

Th 4-6pm

100.802

DISSERTATION RESEARCH  Staff

100.804

INDEPENDENT STUDY  Staff