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HIST   101 EUROPE'S 500 YEARS 1450 - 1815           Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Comprehensive exploration of how the world was thoroughly reshaped by
the European experience.  Recommended for freshmen and sophomores.
Offered with additional work as Hist 301.
001 MWF     09:00AM-09:50AM RH*110   Stokes, Gale                   *CURRENT ENR: 12

HIST   113 GOD, TIME, AND HISTORY                   Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
How is the passage of time given meaning, and what role--if any--is
assigned to divinity in shaping the direction of events?  Course
explores various forms of recording and interpreting events, drawing
from ancient Mesopotamia, Israel, and the Greco-Roman world--the
cultures in which modern ideas of history began.
Also offered as Reli 123 and Huma 113.
001 TTH     02:30PM-03:50PM SH*301   Maas, Michael                  *CURRENT ENR: 0
001                                  Henze, Matthias                *CURRENT ENR: 0

HIST   117 THE UNITED STATES, 1815-1877             Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Survey of American social, political, and economic history from the
early republic through the Civil War and reconstruction, with emphasis
on industrialization and the history of labor, women's history, and race
relations.
Offered with additional work as Hist 317.
001 TTH     09:25AM-10:40AM SH*307   Dailey, Jane                   *CURRENT ENR: 5

HIST   160 FRESHMAN SEMINAR: JEFFERSON & THE ORIGIN Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Examination of the most talented of the U.S. Founding Fathers and how he
helped define the country's revolutionary ideals, diplomacy, and
politics, as well as its public lands, domestic architecture, religion,
practice of slavery, and education.  Includes readings, discussions, and
essays.
Limited enrollment (18).
001 M       02:00PM-05:00PM FL*412   Gruber, Ira                    *CURRENT ENR: 1

HIST   200 ORIGINS OF WEST CIVILIZATIONS ATHENS, RO Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Interdisciplinary introduction to the three great cultural traditions
of ancient Judaism, Greece, and Rome.  Primary sources and modern
evaluations of their contributions are the focus of lectures and
discussions.
001 TTH     01:00PM-02:20PM PL*212   Maas, Michael                  *CURRENT ENR: 8

HIST   203 INTRO TO MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATION THE HIGH  Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Continuation of Hist 202 (not a prerequisite).  Includes European
culture from the year 1000 to the discovery of the Americas, which
encompasses the Crusades, the "discovery of the individual," chivalry
and chivalric literature, the Black Death, and the beginnings of the Age
of Exploration, using pictorial and architectural as well as literary
and historical sources.
Offered with additional work as Hist 326.
Enrollment limited to 25 per section.
001 MWF     10:00AM-10:50AM PL*212   Nirenberg, David               *CURRENT ENR: 39

HIST   206 INTRO TO ASIAN CIVILIZATIONS             Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Introduction to the great cultural traditions of Asia, past and present,
with emphasis on evolving religious and philosophical traditions,
artistic and literary achievements, and patterns of political, social,
and economic change.
Enrollment limited to 40.
Also offered as Asia 211, Huma 211 and Reli 211.
New students take ASIA 111.
001 TTH     02:30PM-03:50PM RH*110   Smith, Richard                 *CURRENT ENR: 15
001                                  Klein, Anne                    *CURRENT ENR: 15
001                                  Thal, Sarah                    *CURRENT ENR: 15

HIST   211 AMERICAN THOUGHT AND SOCIETY I           Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Survey of 17th- and 18th-century American history, with emphasis on
intellectual and social developments underlying the surface of events.
Offered with additional work as Hist 311.
001 TTH     09:25AM-10:40AM SH*305   Haskell, Thomas                *CURRENT ENR: 8

HIST   215 BLACKS IN THE AMERICAS                   Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This comparative survey of black people in the Americas from 1619 to the
present examines the Atlantic slave trade, the movement toward slave
emancipation in various countries, and 19th-century black self-help
efforts. The course also concentrates on economic conditions for blacks
at the turn of the 20th century. Offered with additional work as Hist
315.
001 MWF     10:00AM-10:50AM DH*1075  Cox, Edward                    *CURRENT ENR: 8

HIST   221 JAPANESE HISTORY I: EARLY  JAPAN - THE A Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
From the Sun Goddess to samuari, images from early history continue to
shape the way Japanese people think about themselves and their country.
This survey of Japan from prehistoric times to the eighteenth century
will introduce students to the country's religious and intellectual
traditions, social and political formations, and cultural and economic
trasformations. Offered with additional work as HIST 421.
001 TTH     09:25AM-10:40AM BL*123   Thal, Sarah                    *CURRENT ENR: 8

HIST   228 MODERN LATIN AMERICA: INDEPENDENCE TO TH Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Discussions of Latin America usually fall back upon facile
generalizations that emphasize recent changes to explain "current
events".  This lecture course will examine in detail the creation of
modern Latin America.  We will concentrate on the struggles over land
and labor, the creation of nation-states and the conflicts within those
states over issues of citizenship and social justice. The course will
also address the contentious role the United States has played in the
region.
001 MWF     11:00AM-11:50AM SH*207B  Wolfe, Joel                    *CURRENT ENR: 21

HIST   231 AFRICA TO 1884                           Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Survey of the changing historiography of Africa.  Includes the emergence
of the Bantu, early Christianity and Islam, trans-Saharan trade, the
medieval Sudanic empires, statelessness and state formation, Portugal in
Africa, the slave trade, South Africa to 1867, the Mfecane, the Sudanic
jihads, long-distance trade, and African-European relations in the
19th-century.
001 TTH     10:50AM-12:05PM GL*106   Odhiambo, Atieno               *CURRENT ENR: 21

HIST   235 THE WORLD AND THE WEST                   Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This course aims first to provide an introduction to the last 500 years
of world history, focusing on those processes that define the modern
period, including industrialization, democratization, colonialism, and
the emergence of new forms of cultural production.  Second, we explore
how and why such processes have come to divide the modern world into a
"west" and a "non-west".
001 MWF     11:00AM-11:50AM SH*305   Makdisi, Ussama                *CURRENT ENR: 6
001                                  Quillen, Carol                 *CURRENT ENR: 6

HIST   244 INTRO TO WOMEN'S HISTORY                 Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Exploration of the idea of women's history (is it the same as the
history of women?) by examining the approaches and types of evidence
that are used by scholars in the field.  Includes the relationship of
women's history to related fields such as feminist theory, gender
studies, and the history of sexuality.
Offered with additional work as Hist 344.
Also offered as WGST 214 and WGST 314..
001 MWF     01:00PM-01:50PM SH*305   Quillen, Carol                 *CURRENT ENR: 8

HIST   256 EUROPEAN POLITICS & SOCIETY, 1890-1945   Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Examination of European history in the age of total war.  Includes
imperialism and the development of the welfare state, institutional
responses to the demands of total warfare, the crisis of liberal
constitutionalism, the Russian Revolution, ant the rise of fascism.
001 MWF     11:00AM-11:50AM FL*525   Caldwell, Peter                *CURRENT ENR: 10

HIST   261 HISTORY OF BRITAIN FROM HENRY VIII-VICTO Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Examination of the personalities and forces that changed England from a
backwater of Europe into the leading nation in the world.
Offered with additional work as Hist 361.
001 TTH     01:00PM-02:20PM FL*525   Wiener, Martin                 *CURRENT ENR: 2

HIST   286 THE REFORMATION & ITS RESULTS            Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Theology and church-state issues from 16th-century Reformation to 17th
century; medieval background; Luther, Calvin, Catholic Reformation;
religious wars; Protestant Orthodoxy; Pietist spirituality; Puritanism;
calls for toleration.
Also offered as Reli 286.
001 TH      02:30PM-05:30PM FL*524   Stroup, John                   *CURRENT ENR: 3

HIST   293 ART OF WAR FROM MACHIAVELLI TO NAPOLEON  Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Study of the theory and practice of warfare from the 15th century to the
early 19th-century.  Includes Machiavelli, Saxe, and Napoleon.
Offered with additional work as Hist 393.
001 TTH     02:30PM-03:50PM SH*207B  Gruber, Ira                    *CURRENT ENR: 19

HIST   297 AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY I                 Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This course surveys American legal and constitutional history from the
colonial era to the post-Appomattox Reconstruction Era. Through
lectures, readings, and  discussions, students will examine the
emergence and development of legal institutions in America, including
customary, judge-made, and statutory law; sovereignty,
constitutionalism, and federalism; property rights and contract
obligations; civil, criminal, and adminstrative procedures; and
doctrines of procedural and substantive rights and liberties. Offered
with additional work as Hist 397.
001 MWF     01:00PM-01:50PM SH*207B  Wilson, Steve                  *CURRENT ENR: 0

HIST   300 INDEPENDENT STUDIES                      Credits 1.00  Fall 99
Independent study under the supervision of a history faculty member.
Prereq- permission of instructor.
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

HIST   301 EUROPE'S 500 YEARS 1450-1815             Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Enriched version of Hist 101.  May not receive credit for both
Hist 101 and 301.
Recommended for Junior and Seniors.
001 MWF     09:00AM-09:50AM RH*110   Stokes, Gale                   *CURRENT ENR: 9

HIST   303 UNDERGRAD INDEPENDENT READING            Credits 3.00  Fall 99
Independent reading under the supervision of a faculty member.  Open to
a limited number of advanced students with special permission.
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 1

HIST   311 AMERICAN THOUGHT & SOCIETY I             Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Enriched version of Hist 211. Students may not receive credit for both
Hist 211 and 311.
001 TTH     09:25AM-10:40AM SH*305   Haskell, Thomas                *CURRENT ENR: 3

HIST   313 THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION                   Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Mexico is run today by politicians who see themselves as the heirs to
the 1910-1917 revolution.  Yet their authorization government rules
Mexico in nearly the same way as did the dictatorships they ousted.
This lecture and discussion course will examine the roots of the Mexican
Revolution, the development of the coalitions of peasants, workers, and
middle-class politicians that participated in the conflict and the slow
institutionalization that followed.
001 MWF     09:00AM-09:50AM FL*525   Wolfe, Joel                    *CURRENT ENR: 18

HIST   315 BLACKS IN THE AMERICAS                   Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Enriched version of Hist 215.  May not receive credit for both
Hist 215 and Hist 315.
001 MWF     10:00AM-10:50AM DH*1075  Cox, Edward                    *CURRENT ENR: 13

HIST   317 THE UNITED STATES, 1815-1877             Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Enriched version of Hist 117.  May not receive credit for
both Hist 117 and Hist 317.
001 TTH     09:25AM-10:40AM SH*307   Dailey, Jane                   *CURRENT ENR: 8

HIST   321 SCIENCE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE           Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Study of the radical transformation in content, method, and
institutional setting of Greek science (which was assimilated during the
High Middle Ages) between 1400 and 1700.  Includes Copernicus, Kepler,
Galileo, Descartes, Newton, and others, viewed within the general
cultural history of this period.
001 TTH     10:50AM-12:05PM RH*111   Van Helden, Albert             *CURRENT ENR: 7

HIST   326 INTRO TO MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATION THE HIGH  Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An enriched version of Hist 203.  Students may not receive credit for
both 203 and 326.
001 MWF     10:00AM-10:50AM PL*212   Nirenberg, David               *CURRENT ENR: 15

HIST   327 SPANISH & PORTUGUESE OVERSEAS EXPANSION  Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Focuses on the pioneering Spanish and Portuguese roles and European
expansion.
001 F       01:00PM-04:00PM FL*525   Seed, Patricia                 *CURRENT ENR: 3

HIST   341 PRE-MODERN CHINA                         Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Survey of Chinese history from antiquity to c.1800, highlighting
salient aspects of China's heritage.
001 TTH     01:00PM-02:20PM RH*110   Smith, Richard                 *CURRENT ENR: 23

HIST   344 INTRO. TO WOMEN'S HISTORY                Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Enriched version of Hist 244.  May not receive credit for both
Hist 244 and Hist 344.
Also offered as Wgst 314.
001 MWF     01:00PM-01:50PM SH*305   Quillen, Carol                 *CURRENT ENR: 18

HIST   350 AMERICA, 1900-1940                       Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Survey of major economic, social, and political developments in the
U.S. from 1900 to 1940.
001 TTH     10:50AM-12:05PM RH*110   Matusow, Allen                 *CURRENT ENR: 46

HIST   361 HISTORY OF BRITAIN FROM HENRY VIII-VICTO Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Enriched version of Hist 261. May not receive credit for both Hist 261
and 361.
001 TTH     01:00PM-02:20PM FL*525   Wiener, Martin                 *CURRENT ENR: 12

HIST   365 WOMEN & CONFLICT  IN 20TH  CENTURY EUROP Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An examination of the invlovement and reactions of European women to
situations of war and revolution in the twentieth-century. The course
will look at the ways in which women contributed, resisted or merely
submitted to twentieth-century conflicts and assess the short and
long-terms impact of thes conflicts on their lives. The concept of
gender and ideological gendering in situations of conflict will be
constant themes throughout the sourse. Als offered as Wgst 365.
001 TTH     10:50AM-12:05PM FL*528   Lorcin, Patricia               *CURRENT ENR: 0

HIST   373 ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL JEWISH  HISTORY, 70-1 Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Jewish history from antiquity to the Jews' expulsion from Spain. Jewish
life under the Romans, Muslims, and Christians seen from the prespective
of settlement, assimilation and the particularites of the Jewish
historical experience. Lecture and discussion of primary sources in
translation.
001 MWF     09:00AM-09:50AM FL*524   Haverkamp, Eva                 *CURRENT ENR: 0

HIST   393 ART OF WAR FROM MACHIAVELLI TO NAPOLEON  Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Enriched version of Hist 293.  May not receive credit for both
Hist 293 and Hist 393.
001 TTH     02:30PM-03:50PM SH*207B  Gruber, Ira                    *CURRENT ENR: 10

HIST   397 AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY I                 Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Enriched version of Hist 297.  May not receive credit for both
Hist 297 and 397.
001 MWF     01:00PM-01:50PM SH*207B  Wilson, Steve                  *CURRENT ENR: 0

HIST   403 HONORS THESIS                            Credits 3.00  Fall 99
Restricted to students who have been admitted to the honors program;
consent of the director of the honors program is required. Students must
take both Hist 403 and 404 to gain credit.
001 TBA     TBA                      Wolfe, Joel                    *CURRENT ENR: 5

HIST   409 HISTORY OF EAST AFRICA                   Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Survey of East African cultures, societies, economies, and politics from
earliest times to the present.  Includes the peoples and languages of
East Africa, migrations and settlement, state formation, long-distance
trade and expansions in scale, imperialisms and colonial conquest,
colonial transformations of African societies, nationalism, and
independence.
001 TH      02:30PM-05:30PM FL*517   Odhiambo, Atieno               *CURRENT ENR: 5

HIST   421 JAPANESE HISTORY I:EARLY  JAPAN - AGE OF Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Enriched version of Hist 221. May not receive credit for both HIST 221
and 421.
001 TTH     09:25AM-10:40AM BL*123   Thal, Sarah                    *CURRENT ENR: 9

HIST   424 NAVIGATION & CARTOGRAPHY                 Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Navigation and cartography changed more rapidly in the period from 1400
to 1600 than in any other period prior to the 20th-century.  Topics
covered include the history of projections, origin of latitude and
longitude scales, compass roses, ship design and related subjects.  A
list of the subjects covered apears at <http://www.rice.edu/latitude>.
Enrollment limited to 15.
001 TH      02:30PM-05:30PM FL*528   Seed, Patricia                 *CURRENT ENR: 4

HIST   427 HISTORY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, 19 Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Examination of the modern civil rights movement, with emphasis on the
goals and strategies of major spokespersons and leaders, as well as the
achievements of the campaign.  Includes the extent of its success or
failure and whether or not an "unfinished" agenda needs to be completed.
Enrollment is limited to 15.
001 W       02:00PM-05:00PM RH*319   Cox, Edward                    *CURRENT ENR: 12

HIST   434 ISLAM AND THE WEST                       Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This seminar explores issues of contact and exploration between the
Western and Islamic worlds.  Beginning with the Crusades and continuing
through the Ottoman period, the seminar ends in the modern era.  It
investigates how identities are formed and reshaped through contact with
other cultures, specifically how the ideas of the West and Islam
were developed in association with one another.  Rather than treating
them as stable categories, this seminar seeks to understand how
traditions are "invented" by tracing the relationship between
civilization & despotism, freedom & tyranny, religious tolerance, & holy
war.
001 W       02:00PM-05:00PM FL*528   Makdisi, Ussama                *CURRENT ENR: 6

HIST   438 WOMEN & GENDER IN ISLAMIC SOCIETIES      Credits 3.00  Fall 99
Examination of some features of the legal position and social
realities of men and women in the Islamic world, with emphasis on how
boundaries of gender have traditionally been drawn. Includes family and
sexual ethics the harem, polygyny, divorce, and eunuchs (who played an
important role in both the military and in certain religious
institutions).
Also offered as Wgst 455.
001 M       02:00PM-05:00PM FL*528   Sanders, Paula                 *CURRENT ENR: 6

HIST   453                                          Credits       Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Major nineteenth- and twentieth-century historical texts examined both
as narratives about the French past and as discourses embodying
particular attitudes toward contemporary society and politics.  Topics
include the emergence of a "scientific" history of the Revolution
(Michelet, Tocqueville, Taine) and its relation to the historical novel,
the Annales school and the question of French identity (Bloch, Braudel),
and the politics of theory in recent French history (Foucault,
Chartier).  Taught in English; readings in French or English according
to students' abilities.
Offered with additional work as Hist 553.
Also offered as Fren 453.
                                                                    *CURRENT ENR: 0

HIST   457 IMAGES OF EUROPE:IDENTITY  & CULTURE     Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Through the media of film, literature and historical criticism, this
course will present the major themes of identity that have contributed
to the creation of modern Europe, namely class, nation and politics.
Students will be introduced to key developments and events in the past
150 years relevant to this process. The films have ben especially
selected to demonstrate the different ways in which the media can shape
our ideas of the past by representing them in the light of their own
political or cultural agendas.
001 W       02:00PM-05:00PM FL*517   Lorcin, Patricia               *CURRENT ENR: 0

HIST   464 FOREIGN POLICY OF NIXON AND KISSINGER    Credits 3.00  Fall 99
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Seminar requiring three short research papers.
Enrollment limited to 15.
Prereq- permission of instructor required.
001 W       02:00PM-05:00PM FL*525   Matusow, Allen                 *CURRENT ENR: 17

HIST   501 MASTER'S HISTORICAL RESEARCH             Credits 1.00  Fall 99
Master's thesis.  Students must take both Hist 501 and 502 in order
to gain credit.
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

HIST   503 GRADUATE TOPICS                          Credits 2.00  Fall 99
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 1

HIST   511 DIRECTED READ-AMERICAN HIST I            Credits 4.00  Fall 99
For graduate students only.
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

HIST   513 DIRECTED READ-AMERICAN HIST II           Credits 4.00  Fall 99
For graduate students only.
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

HIST   515 DIRECTED READINGS IN MILITARY HISTORY    Credits 4.00  Fall 99
001 TBA     TBA                      Gruber, Ira                    *CURRENT ENR: 1

HIST   517 DIRECTED READ-SCIENCE & TECH             Credits 4.00  Fall 99
For graduate students only.
001 TBA     TBA                      Van Helden, Albert             *CURRENT ENR: 1

HIST   521 DIRECTED READ.MEDIEVAL HISTORY           Credits 4.00  Fall 99
For graduate students only.
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 1

HIST   525 DIRECTED READINGS IN AFRICAN HISTORY     Credits 4.00  Fall 99
For graduate students only.
001 TBA     TBA                      Odhiambo, Atieno               *CURRENT ENR: 0

HIST   527 DIRECTED READ.NON-WESTERN HIST           Credits 4.00  Fall 99
For graduate students only.
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 1

HIST   528 DIR READING NONWESTERN HISTORY           Credits 4.00  Fall 99
For graduate students only.
001 TBA     TBA             TBA      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

HIST   529 DIR.READ.MOD.EUROPEAN HIST. I            Credits 4.00  Fall 99
For graduate students only.
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 1

HIST   531 DIR.READ.MOD.EUROPEAN HIST II            Credits 4.00  Fall 99
For graduate students only.
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 1

HIST   544 AFTER THE DELUGE: WWI & EUROPEAN HISTORY Credits 4.00  Fall 99
Graduate reading seminar that examines World War One and its effects on
the societies, economies, and politics of postwar Europe.  Topics
include: transformation of the European states during wartime; the
Russian and German revolutions; limits  to economic recovery and the
Great Depression; radicalization of political ideologies, left and
right; and the rise of fascism.
Enrollment limited to 15.
001 W       02:00PM-05:00PM FL*524   Caldwell, Peter                *CURRENT ENR: 3

HIST   568 EMANCIPATION & TRANSITION TO FREEDOM/POS Credits 4.00  Fall 99
Reading and research seminar focusing on the process and experience of
emancipation during and after the American Civil War, the transition to
a southern economy based on free labor ideals, and the reconfiguration
of politics after the enfranchisement of African American men. We will
consider traditional historical sources pertaining to the reconstruction
of social, economic, and political life after the abolition of slavery,
and issues of identity formation and definition (e.g., race, gender,
class, partisanship) in postwar southern literature. Open to advanced
undergraduates with permission of the instructor.
001 T       02:30PM-05:30PM FL*528   Dailey, Jane                   *CURRENT ENR: 1

HIST   575 INTRO TO DOCTORAL STUDIES                Credits 4.00  Fall 99
Introduction to a range of methodological and theoretical approaches to
historical research, as well as to important current debates about the
nature of historical investigation and interpretation.  Discussion,
short weekly essays, and one longer paper based on course readings
required.
Enrollment is limited to 15.
001 TH      02:30PM-05:30PM FL*525   Haskell, Thomas                *CURRENT ENR: 0

HIST   584 RESEARCH SEMINAR IN BRITISH HISTORY      Credits 4.00  Fall 99
This seminar will explore a range of English trials spanning several
centuries and various types of contention - divorce, inheritance, libel,
forgery, rape and murder.  The point will be not to decide which party
was right, or did the defendant do it, but to examine how trial records
can be used to illuminate their society - its politics, economics,
social relations and culture.  It is meant to be applicable to
historical work in any time period and any country.  Each participant
will select one trial of some significance, on which sufficient source
material exists at Rice, and analyze it in depth.  No previous
coursework in British history is required.
001 T       02:30PM-05:30PM FL*525   Wiener, Martin                 *CURRENT ENR: 2

HIST   585 U.S. CONST & LEGAL HISTORY               Credits 4.00  Fall 99
Research into significant constitutional and legal questions, with
emphasis on  civil liberties, criminal law, civil-military
relations, race relations, and urban problems.
001 TBA     TBA                      Hyman, Harold                  *CURRENT ENR: 0

HIST   591 GRADUATE READING                         Credits 1.00  Fall 99
Graduate reading in conjunction with another course.
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 1

HIST   592 GRADUATE READING                         Credits 1.00  Fall 99
See Hist 591.
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

HIST   593 GRADUATE READING                         Credits 1.00  Fall 99
See Hist 591.
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

HIST   595 SEMINAR: THE AMERICAN SOUTH              Credits 4.00  Fall 99
A seminar focusing on the major scholarly literature of southern
history.  Readings and discussions, with the major paper on a
historiographical topic decided in consultation with the instructor.
Limited enrollment.
001 M       02:00PM-05:00PM FL*525   Boles, John                    *CURRENT ENR: 1

HIST   800 PH.D. RESEARCH                           Credits 3.00  Fall 99
Doctoral dissertation.
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 18

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