Attention: This schedule is subject to change. Before registering for classes, check the on-line schedule of classes to confirm course numbers, times, and availability. Prerequisite requirements are strictly enforced. Please take note that many upper-level history courses have prerequisites. If you have not met the prerequisite, you may be dropped from the course.
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HIST601 History and Contemporary Theory
M 1:00-3:30pm Landau
HIST607 (PermReq) The Teaching of History in Institutions of Higher Learning
Prerequisite: permission of department
Time and room to be arranged Staff
HIST608B (PermReq) General Seminar: American History
Tu 3:30pm- 6:00pm Moss
HIST610 (PermReq) Introduction to Museum Scholarship
W 4:00pm- 6:40pm Hughes
Restricted to graduate students in American Studies, Anthropology, Historic Preservation, or History (including HILS), or others by permission of department. Also offered as AMST 655. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: AMST 638C, AMST 655, HIST 610, or HIST 619C. Formerly HIST619C.
Provides students a basic understanding of museums as cultural and intellectual institutions. Topics include the historical development of museums, museums as resources for scholarly study, and the museum exhibition as medium for presentation of scholarship.
HIST619A (PermReq) Special Topics in History: Independent Study
Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.
Prerequisite: permission of department.
HIST619B (PermReq) Special Topics in History: Independent Study
Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.
Prerequisite: permission of department.
HIST619F Special Topics in History: Stalinism and Nazism
Th 3:30pm- 6:00pm David-Fox
Few topics in comparative and transnational history have been as hotly debated and researched as Stalinism and Nazism. This course will explore the juxtaposition of the two most murderous twentieth century regimes to illuminate the broader historical trajectories and particularities of Russia and Germany, as well as to gain deeper understanding of communism, nationalism, the interwar period, and the literature on modernity and dictatorship. The comparison also leads to critical investigation of the conceptual frameworks that have grown up around the left/right comparison, from totalitarianism theory to the most recent study of interactions, perceptions, and mutual observation on the part the two regimes. Our starting point this semester will be the new work jointly written by Russianists and Germanists, __Beyond Totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism Compared__ (Cambridge, 2008). The course will follow this landmark publication in exploring a range of topics. These include not only new considerations of the most heavily studied topics-political systems, ideology, political violence, and World War II-but also such areas as everyday life, 'utopian biopolitics', social engineering, and the 'new man.'
HIST619Q Special Topics in History: Readings in Military History
W 6:30pm- 9:00pm Sumida
HIST629 Readings in the American Revolution and New Nation, 1763 to 1812
Tu 6:30pm- 9:00pm Ridgway
HIST639G Special Topics in History: Readings in Transnational History
Also offered as AMST629E.
Th 1:00pm- 3:30pm Greene
This course considers transnational history, a growing and influential approach to historical research and writing. We will explore antecedents to transnational methods; the methodology and theory of transnational history; and several case studies which employ a transnational approach. Our goal will be to critique the strengths and weaknesses of transnational history and, as we identify the analytical challenges facing the field, to find solutions. We will explore several different themes within transnational history including culture, global migration, political economy, and commodity chains. Throughout the course the role played by class, race, and gender will be important concerns. The course will focus to some degree on the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean, but we will also reach beyond the Western Hemisphere to other regions of the world.
HIST639I Special Topics in History: Humans and Other Animals
M 6:30pm- 9:00pm Milam
This course is aimed at an interdisciplinary audience, and consists of a series of historical explorations into the question of what we mean by the categories animal and human. Given the increasing interest in animal studies across the humanities, this course is designed to develop our methodological toolboxes for incorporating animals and their stories into our research as analytical lenses or actors in their own right.
HIST639J Special Topics in History: Global Capitalism
Tu 6:30pm- 9:00pm Sicilia
What is capitalism? Where and why did it originate? How does it innovate, destroy, spread, mature? What are the institutional, political, and cultural underpinnings of viable capitalism? Why does capitalism take different forms (e.g. “mercantile,” “family,” “managerial,” “cooperative,” “post-industrial,” “post-socialist [transitional],” “financial”) in different local, national, and regional settings? How have capitalism and gender interacted? How have the ideas of leading theorists (e.g. A. Smith, K. Marx, J. Schumpeter, J.M. Keynes, I. Wallerstein, M. Friedman) shaped policy, academic discourse, and popular notions of capitalism? The course will explore these questions through a combination of theoretical readings and case studies of firms, industries, networks, and nations in a variety of historical periods and locales in Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America, North America, the Middle East, and East and South Asia.
HIST639M Special Topics in History: HISTORY & MEMORY IN MEDIEVAL ISLAM
M 1:00pm- 3:00pm Borrut
HIST639P Special Topics in History: Recent Work in Greek and Roman History
Th 3:30pm- 6:00pm Eckstein
"Recent Scholarship on the Ancient Mediterranean World" This course will examine recent scholarship on Greece and Rome, offering selected topics ranging from the fifth century B.C. to the first century A.D. The emphasis is on new approaches to old controversies. Topics covered include the Athenian Empire, Alexander the Great, the politics of alliance in Republican Rome, the reign of the Emperor Augustus, the civil war of 69-70 A.D.
HIST679 Readings in the History of American Foreign Policy
Th 6:30pm- 9:00pm Zhang
HIST708 Directed Independent Reading for Comprehensive Examinations I
Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.
HIST709 Directed Independent Reading for Comprehensive Examinations II
Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.
HIST799 (PermReq) Master's Thesis Research
Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.
HIST819A Special Topics in History: Independent Research
Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.
HIST819B Special Topics in History: Independent Research
Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.
HIST819C Special Topics in History: Independent Research: Research Seminar in Recent American History
W 3:30pm- 6:00pm Giovacchini
HIST819Z Special Topics in History: Independent Research: Film and Intertextuality
Also offered as CMLT788A and SLLC698I. Class meets on Fridays from 2:00-4:00pm on the following dates: February 11, March 11, April 8, and April 22.
Time and room to be arranged Papazian
The Colloquium in Cinema and Theory is a one-credit graduate colloquium that considers issues in film theory and criticism. The theme for Spring 2011 will be “Film and Intertextuality.”
HIST848 Seminar in Modern European History
Tu 3:30pm- 6:00pm Herf