Rice Course Schedule, Fall 2000
History (HIST)
Rice Course Schedule as of 05/15/2001.
This schedule is maintained by the Office of the Registrar
(reg@rice.edu).
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NOTE: Course web pages are available for some HIST courses.
HIST 117 THE UNITED STATES, 1815-1877 Credits 3.00 Fall 00
* 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 HUM 327 - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM Schmeller, Mark Enr: 11 Max: NA
Schmeller, Mark
HIST 160 FRESHMAN SEMINAR: JEFFERSON & THE ORIGIN Credits 3.00 Fall 00
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 to
15.
001 FL 412 - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM Gruber, Ira D. Enr: 0 Max: 15
HIST 206 INTRO TO ASIAN CIVILIZATIONS Credits 3.00 Fall 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
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.
Cross-listed with Huma 111 (new students), Huma 211 (continuing
students), Asia 211 and Reli 211. Enrollment
limited to 40.
001 HUM 117 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Staff Enr: 7 Max: 40
HIST 221 JAPANESE HISTORY I: EARLY JAPAN TO THE A Credits 3.00 Fall 00
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 economic transformations.
Offered with additional work as Hist 421.
001 HUM 327 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Thal, Sarah Enr: 3 Max: NA
HIST 228 MODERN LATIN AMERICA FROM INDEPENDENCE T Credits 3.00 Fall 00
* 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 SH 309 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Wolfe, Joel Enr: 36 Max: NA
HIST 231 AFRICA TO 1884 Credits 3.00 Fall 00
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 nineteenth-century.
001 GL 106 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Odhiambo, Atieno S. Enr: 24 Max: NA
HIST 235 THE WORLD AND THE WEST Credits 3.00 Fall 00
* 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".
Also offered as Huma 235.
001 KH 101 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Quillen, Carol E. Enr: 23 Max: NA
HIST 241 HISTORY OF AMERICAN WOMEN I: COLONIAL BE Credits 3.00 Fall 00
Beginning with an examination of the similarities and differences in the lives
of women across the colonies, this course will trace changes in the dominant
cultural difinitions of womanhood and women's roles from the
mid-seventeenth-century through the ante-bellum period. Offered with additional
work as HIST 441. Also offered as WGST 234.
001 HUM 327 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM Sneider, Allison Enr: Max: NA
HIST 257 JEWS AND CHRISTIANS IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE Credits 3.00 Fall 00
Though Jewish and Christian history are often treated as separate fields, over
the course of their long co-existence the two communities profoundly affected
each other. Their histories are intimately related. This course will study
these relations focusing on Jewish communities within the context of Christian
Europe. Offered with additional work as HIST 357.
001 HUM 327 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Haverkamp, Eva Enr: 6 Max: NA
HIST 261 HISTORY OF BRITAIN FROM HENRY VIII TO DE Credits 3.00 Fall 00
* 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 HUM 327 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Wiener, Martin J. Enr: 10 Max: NA
HIST 286 THE REFORMATION & ITS RESULTS Credits 3.00 Fall 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Study of theology and church-state issues from the sixteenth-century
Reformation to the seventeenth- century. Includes the Reformation's medieval
background, Luther and Calvin, the Catholic Reformation, religious wars,
Protestant Orthodoxy, Pietist spirituality, Puritanism, and calls for
toleration.
Also offered as Reli 286.
001 FL 524 - TH 02:30PM - 05:30PM Stroup, John M. Enr: 7 Max: NA
HIST 295 THE AMERICAN SOUTH Credits 3.00 Fall 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Survey of the history of the American South from the development of Native
American cultures to the present. Includes social, cultural, and intellectual
history, with emphasis on slavery and the plantation economy, the rise of
southern distinctiveness, the Civil War and Reconstruction, sharecropping,
political reform, the civil rights movement, the rise of the Sunbelt, southern
religion, music, and literature, and the future of southern regionalism.
Offered with additional work as Hist 395.
001 SS 106 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM Boles, John B. Enr: 22 Max: NA
HIST 297 AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY I Credits 3.00 Fall 00
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 administrative
procedures; and doctrines of
procedural and substantive
rights, and liberties. Offered with additional work
as
Hist 397.
001 SH 207B - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM Wilson, Steven Enr: 25 Max: NA
HIST 300 INDEPENDENT STUDY Credits 1.00 Fall 00
Independent study under the supervision of a history faculty member. Hours are
variable.
Permisssion of instructor.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 1 Max: NA
HIST 303 UNDERGRADUATE INDEPENDENT READING Credits 3.00 Fall 00
Independent reading under the supervision of a history faculty member. Open to
a limited number of advanced students with special permission.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 1 Max: NA
HIST 317 THE UNITED STATES, 1815-1877 Credits 3.00 Fall 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Enriched version of Hist 117. May not receive credit for both Hist 117 and
Hist 317.
001 HUM 327 - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM Schmeller, Mark Enr: 6 Max: NA
Schmeller, Mark
HIST 320 SCIENCE IN ANTIQUITY & MIDDLE AGES Credits 3.00 Fall 00
Survey of science from ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and Greece to the end of the
Middle Ages. No expertise in science required.
001 HUM 327 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Van Helden, Albert Enr: 15 Max: NA
HIST 327 SPANISH & PORTUGUESE OVERSEAS EXPANSION Credits 3.00 Fall 00
Focuses on the pioneering Spanish and Portuguese roles
and European expansion.
001 TBA - F 01:00PM - 04:00PM Seed, Patricia Enr: 1 Max: NA
HIST 331 HEALTH & MEDICINE IN AMERICA Credits 3.00 Fall 00
Questions of health and medicine have deeply affected American life from
pre-Columbian times to the present day.
This course examines health and
medicine from the colonial era to the present. Using a variety of sources and
interpretations, we will trace important developments in these areas, and try
to understand their immense impact
on American society, culture, and
intellectual life.
001 HUM 119 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Oliver, Robert D. Enr: 17 Max: NA
HIST 335 CARIBBEAN HISTORY TO 1838 Credits 3.00 Fall 00
Study of Caribbean history from the arrival of Europeans to the abolition of
slavery in the British West Indies in 1838, with emphasis on the social and
economic history of the region. Includes the question of why slavery and the
plantation system both emerged and fell.
001 KH 101 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Cox, Edward L. Enr: 23 Max: NA
HIST 341 PRE-MODERN CHINA Credits 3.00 Fall 00
Survey of Chinese history from antiquity to c.1800, highlighting salient
aspects of China's heritage.
001 SH 307 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Smith, Richard J. Enr: 14 Max: NA
HIST 348 FIN DE SIECLE AMERICAN INTELLECTUALS Credits 3.00 Fall 00
At the end of the nineteenth-century developments in science and technology
profoundly affected people's conceptions of time and space, seemingly
transforming the permanent into the transient and order into chaos. This course
will investigate the transformation that occurred in American thought and
culture from 1870 to 1920 and the ways intellectuals sought to cope with that
transformation.
001 TBA - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Good, James DELETE Enr: 2 Max: NA
HIST 350 AMERICA, 1900-1940 Credits 3.00 Fall 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Survey of major economic, social, and political developments in the United
States from 1900 to 1940.
001 SH 309 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Matusow, Allen J. Enr: 72 Max: NA
HIST 357 JEWS & CHRISTIANS IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE Credits 3.00 Fall 00
Enriched version of Hist 257. May not receive credit for both
Hist 257 and
Hist 357.
001 HUM 327 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Haverkamp, Eva Enr: 9 Max: NA
HIST 360 SOCIETY & THE SEXES IN MODERN FRANCE Credits 3.00 Fall 00
Examination of gender roles, gender ideology, and sexual practices in the
construction of French society and culture from the Enlightenment to World War
II. Includes sexual politics and the emergent "public sphere" in the
eighteenth century, masculine and feminine images of the state during the
French Revolution, feminist discourses and politics in 1789, 1848, and during
the campaign for women's suffrage, and family structures, patriarchy, and
notions of property. Taught in English. Some readings may be in French. Also
offered as Fren 360 and Wgst 311.
Also offered as FREN 360
001 FL 517 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Sherman, Daniel J. Enr: 4 Max: NA
HIST 360 SOCIETY & THE SEXES IN MODERN FRANCE Credits 3.00 Fall 00
Examination of gender roles, gender ideology, and sexual practices in the
construction of French society and culture from the Enlightenment to World War
II. Includes sexual politics and the emergent "public sphere" in the
eighteenth century, masculine and feminine images of the state during the
French Revolution, feminist discourses and politics in 1789, 1848, and during
the campaign for women's suffrage, and family structures, patriarchy, and
notions of property. Taught in English. Some readings may be in French. Also
offered as Fren 360 and Wgst 311.
Also offered as FREN 360
001 FL 517 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Sherman, Daniel J. Enr: Max: NA
HIST 361 HISTORY OF BRITAIN FROM HENRY VIII TO VI Credits 3.00 Fall 00
Enriched version of Hist 261. May not receive credit for both Hist 261 and Hist
361.
001 HUM 327 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Wiener, Martin J. Enr: 7 Max: NA
HIST 367 HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA Credits 3.00 Fall 00
South Africans are now struggling with their past. As they shape a new
society, the legal and physical legacies
of Apartheid surround them. South
Africa's history over the past four centuries is one of brutality in
conquest,
ethnic and racial manipulation, land dispossession, and a
deeply
ingrained tradition of resisting the state--but also of joy, spiritual power,
cross-racial affinities, and state compromise. This course will investigate
these issues in a chronological and thematic way, starting from the early
history of the subcontinent before focusing on the nineteeth and twentieth
centuries. The course is
particularly organized around the theme of Production
of
Knowledge, including historical memory, colonial racism and representations
of people, and the role of individuals
and communities in struggle.
001 HUM 327 - TH 02:30PM - 05:30PM Odhiambo, Atieno S. Enr: 12 Max: NA
HIST 395 THE AMERICAN SOUTH Credits 3.00 Fall 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An enriched version of Hist 295. May not receive credit for both Hist 295 and
395.
001 SS 106 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM Boles, John B. Enr: 20 Max: NA
HIST 397 AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY I Credits 3.00 Fall 00
Enriched version of Hist 297. May not receive credit for both Hist 297 and 397.
001 SH 207B - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM Wilson, Steven Enr: 12 Max: NA
HIST 403 HONORS THESIS Credits 3.00 Fall 00
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 Enr: 2 Max: NA
HIST 415 THE RISE & FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE Credits 3.00 Fall 00
How the largest empire in world history came into existence, the impact it had
on people and states worldwide, and its decline and fall. Course work will
consist of reading, viewing, and evaluating films, and, most important,
preparing and summarizing in class a research paper on a topic of choice.
Some background in either British history or the history of one of the areas
impacted by the British desirable.
001 HUM 327 - T 07:00PM - 10:00PM Wiener, Martin J. Enr: 10 Max: NA
HIST 416 SEMINAR IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN-AMERICAN Credits 3.00 Fall 00
A reading- and writing-intensive seminar focusing on selected issues in black
culture, politics, and community in the United States since the climax of the
civil rights movement. Contents vary. Fall 2000:Ronald Reagan's America--an era
of individualism and conservatism at odds with the America of Martin Luther
King, Jr. Limited enrollment 15.
001 HUM 327 - T 02:30PM - 05:30PM Byrd, Alexander Xavier Enr: 8 Max: 15
HIST 421 JAPANESE HISTORY I: EARLY JAPAN TO THE A Credits 3.00 Fall 00
Enriched version of Hist 221. May not receive credit for
both Hist 221 and 421.
001 HUM 327 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Thal, Sarah Enr: 0 Max: NA
HIST 424 NAVIGATION & CARTOGRAPHY Credits 3.00 Fall 00
Navigation and cartography changed more rapidly in the period from 1400 to 1600
than in any other period prior to the twentieth-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 HUM 118 - TH 02:30PM - 05:30PM Seed, Patricia Enr: 10 Max: 15
HIST 429 TECHNOLOGIES OF NATIONALISM Credits 3.00 Fall 00
The rise of the modern nation-state and the development of nationalism
throughout the globe took place in an era of scientific and technological
innovation. In this seminar we will analyze, through a series of case studies
from around the world, the close relationship between nationalism and
technology. Topics that will be studied include the advent of the railroad,
urban reform and renewal, automobility, air travel and warfare, the space race,
and the information technology revolution.
Enrollment limited to 15.
001 HUM 327 - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM Wolfe, Joel Enr: 15 Max: 15
HIST 441 HISTORY OF AMERICAN WOMEN: COLONIAL BEGI Credits 3.00 Fall 00
Enriched version of Hist 241. Students may not receive
credit for both Hist
241 and Hist 441.
001 HUM 327 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM Sneider, Allison Enr: 0 Max: NA
HIST 458 SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT IN POSTWAR Credits 3.00 Fall 00
This seminar investigates the reconstruction of German social and political
thinking between 1945 and 1989. Among the topics are: the "end of history" in
functionalist sociology (Schelsky, Gehlen); Ernst Bloch's reformulation of
Marxism; literary representations of the Nazi past (Grass); and the state
socialist present (Heiner Mueller); reconsiderations of the public sphere
(Kluge, Negt, Haug); Christa Wolf's feminist critique; and Niklas Luhmann's
systems theory. Offered for graduate credit as Hist 558.
Prereq- Permission of instructor.
001 FL 524 - T 02:30PM - 05:30PM Caldwell, Peter C. Enr: Max: 15
HIST 480 COMMUNICATIONS & PUBLIC CULTURE IN 19TH Credits 3.00 Fall 00
As the internet does today, printing presses, canals, telegraphs, and railroads
once inspired grand expectations
of profound cultural transformation. This
seminar examines
the contours and consequences of the communications revolution
of the nineteenth century. Readings wil include scholarship in the history of
politics, religion, journalism, urbanization, transportation, technology,
literature, music, art, and rhetoric. Enrollment limited
to 15.
001 SH 207A - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM Schmeller, Mark Enr: 3 Max: 15
HIST 501 MASTER'S HISTORICAL RESEARCH Credits Fall 00
Research for master's thesis. Must take both Hist 501 and 502 to receive
credit.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
HIST 503 GRADUATE TOPICS Credits Fall 00
No description
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
HIST 511 DIRECTED READINGS IN AMERICAN HISTORY I Credits 4.00 Fall 00
No Description.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 2 Max: NA
HIST 513 DIRECTED READINGS IN AMERICAN HISTORY I Credits 4.00 Fall 00
No Description
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
HIST 515 DIRECTED READINGS IN MILITARY HISTORY I Credits 4.00 Fall 00
No description
001 TBA - TBA Gruber, Ira D. Enr: 0 Max: NA
HIST 517 DIRECTED READINGS SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Credits 4.00 Fall 00
No description.
001 TBA - TBA Van Helden, Albert Enr: 0 Max: NA
HIST 521 DIRECTED READINGS IN MEDIEVAL HISTORY Credits 4.00 Fall 00
No description.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
HIST 525 DIRECTED READINGS IN AFRICAN HISTORY Credits 4.00 Fall 00
No description.
001 TBA - TBA Odhiambo, Atieno S. Enr: 0 Max: NA
HIST 527 DIRECTED READING IN NON-WESTERN HISTORY Credits 4.00 Fall 00
No description.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 2 Max: NA
HIST 529 DIRECTED READING-MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY Credits 4.00 Fall 00
For graduate students only.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
HIST 531 DIRECTED READING-MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY Credits 4.00 Fall 00
No description.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
HIST 550 MAIN ISSUES IN CARIBBEAN HISTORY Credits 4.00 Fall 00
Examination of the major local and international forces and ideas that have
shaped the course of the history of the Caribbean.
001 SH 207B - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM Cox, Edward L. Enr: 2 Max: NA
HIST 555 GUIDE TO THE SOURCES OF MEDIEVAL HISTORY Credits 4.00 Fall 00
This seminar will introduce participants to the typology
of the sources of
medieval history and to the auxiliary sciences of history.
001 TBA - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM Haverkamp, Eva Enr: 1 Max: NA
HIST 558 SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT IN POSTWAR Credits 4.00 Fall 00
Graduate version of Hist 458.
Prereq- Permission of instructor.
001 FL 524 - T 02:30PM - 05:30PM Caldwell, Peter C. Enr: Max: NA
HIST 566 WAR AND REVOLUTION Credits 4.00 Fall 00
The emphasis in this graduate seminar will be on the Anglo-American world of
the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but students may choose topics that
go beyond the immediate focus of the course.
001 TBA - TH 02:30PM - 05:30PM Gruber, Ira D. Enr: 1 Max: NA
HIST 575 INTRODUCTION TO DOCTORAL STUDIES Credits 4.00 Fall 00
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.
001 HUM 327 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM Quillen, Carol E. Enr: 2 Max: NA
HIST 585 U.S. CONSTITUTIONAL & LEGAL HISTORY Credits 4.00 Fall 00
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 M. Enr: 0 Max: NA
HIST 591 GRADUATE READING Credits 1.00 Fall 00
Graduate reading in conjunction with another course.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
HIST 592 GRADUATE READING Credits 1.00 Fall 00
Graduate reading in conjunction with another course.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
HIST 593 GRADUATE READING Credits 1.00 Fall 00
Graduate reading in conjunction with another course.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
HIST 800 PH.D RESEARCH Credits Fall 00
Research for doctoral dissertation.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: Max: NA
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