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Rice Course Schedule, Spring 2001
History (HIST)

Rice Course Schedule as of 05/08/2001. This schedule is maintained by the Office of the Registrar (reg@rice.edu).

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HIST 102   EUROPE'S FIVE HUNDRED YEARS, 1815 TO PRE Credits 3.00  Spring 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Continuation of Hist 101. May take either courses separately. Recommended for
Freshman and Sophomores. Offered with additional work as Hist 302.
001 SH 303 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM      Caldwell, Peter C.        Enr: 13 Max: NA

HIST 118   THE UNITED STATES,1877-PRESENT           Credits 3.00  Spring 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
A continuation of Hist 117 (though 117 is not a prerequisite) from the
Reconstruction to the present. Offered with additional work as Hist 318.
001 SH 309 - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM      Schmeller, Mark           Enr: 23 Max: NA

HIST 188   THE ATLANTIC WORLD: ORIGINS TO THE AGE O Credits 3.00  Spring 01
Survey of social, political, economic, and intellectual ligatures which bound
the particular histories of Africa, Europe, and the Americas one to the other,
till by the late eighteenth-century the Atlantic basin constituted a world unto
itself. Offered as additional work as Hist 388.
001 HUM 327 - MWF 08:00AM - 08:50AM     Byrd, Alexander Xavier    Enr: 3 Max: NA

HIST 207   GREEK CIVILIZATION: AN INTRODUCTION      Credits 3.00  Spring 01
A survey of the major monuments--literary, historical, and artistic--in the
formation of Greece's ancient cultural identity. Works to be read or studied
include Homer, Sappho, the tragedians, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, and the
artistic and architectural program of the Acropolis. Special emphasis will be
placed on Greece's self-definition through confrontation and analysis of its
mythic--and not so mythic--past. Also offered as Clas 207 and Huma 109.
001 KH 101 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM      Jenkins, Thomas           Enr: 9 Max: NA

HIST 222   JAPANESE HISTORY II: MODERN JAPAN        Credits 3.00  Spring 01
Over the last two hundred years, the people of Japan have adopted western
dress, waged three international wars, experienced the atom bomb, and built one
of the world's leading economies.  This survey of ninetheenth- and
twentieth-century Japan examines the political, economic, and social forces
that have shaped these events.  Offerd with additional work as Hist 422.
001 HUM 327 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM     Thal, Sarah               Enr: 9 Max: NA

HIST 232   THE MAKING OF MODERN AFRICA              Credits 3.00  Spring 01
Survey of the transformation of Africa from the late 19th century to the
present. Includes Europe and Africa in the 19th century (e.g., the partition of
Africa and the colonial state), economic change in the 20th century (e.g.,
plantation and peasant agriculture, mining and industrialization, wage and
migrant labor, African capitalism, rural differentiation, and the roots of
hunger and poverty), social change in the 20th Century (e.g.,  ethnic identity,
emergence of the elites, and changes in  cultural policies regarding language,
leisure, the roles of women, religion, law and order, medicine and healing, and
urbanization), political developments (e.g, ethnic unions, political parties,
and decolonization), and Africa since independence.
001 HUM 118 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM     Odhiambo, Atieno S.       Enr: 15 Max: NA

HIST 237   GENDER AND POLITICS IN THE WEST          Credits 3.00  Spring 01
This lecture and discussion class explores relationships between ideas about
sex difference and ideas about the political sphere through the study of key
moments in the history of Western philosophy, literature, political theory, and
colonialism from Periclean Athens to the contemporary U.S.  Offered with
additional work as HIST 337. Also offered as WGST 237.
001 FL 517 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM      Quillen, Carol E.         Enr: 3 Max: NA

HIST 242   HISTORY OF AMERICAN WOMEN II: CIVIL WAR  Credits 3.00  Spring 01
Continuation of Hist 241. This course traces the rice of women's voluntary
associations of the ante-bellum period through the highly organized national
and international organizations of the late ninteenth- and twentieth-centuries,
to post-suffrage women's participation in movements for social change across
the twentieth-century. Close attention will be paid to the shifting boundary
between private and public in American women's lives. Offered with additional
work as Hist 442. Also offered as Wgst 235.
001 HUM 327 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM     Sneider, Allison          Enr: 3 Max: NA

HIST 250   TRADITIONAL CHINESE CULTURE              Credits 3.00  Spring 01
Introduction to the language, philosophy, religion, art, literature, and social
customs of China. Offered with additional work as Hist 450.
001 KH 101 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM      Smith, Richard J.         Enr: 9 Max: NA

HIST 269   WORLD HISTORY                            Credits 3.00  Spring 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Survey of world history using computer games from 1300 B.C. to the present,
with emphasis placed upon human interaction with geology, environment and
diseases.
001 HUM 327 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM     Seed, Patricia            Enr: 70 Max: NA

HIST 274   MODERN JEWISH HISTORY, 1500-1948         Credits 3.00  Spring 01
Continuation of HIST 273. The Jews' expulsion from Spain to the establishment
of the state of Israel. Life in western and eastern Europe as well as in
Islamic countries seen from the perspective of settlement, assimilation, and
the particularities of the Jewish historical experience. Lecture and discussion
of primary sources in translation. Offered with additional work as Hist 374.
001 HUM 118 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM     Haverkamp, Eva            Enr: 5 Max: NA

HIST 294   WAR IN THE MODERN WORLD                  Credits 3.00  Spring 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Study of the theory, practice, and experience of war in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries.  Includes Clausewitz, Remarque, and Fuchida.  Offered with
additional work as Hist 394.
001 HUM 117 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM     Gruber, Ira D.            Enr: 28 Max: NA

HIST 296   MONEY AND AMERICAN CULTURE               Credits 3.00  Spring 01
A survey of monetary and financial history from the eighteenth-century to the
present that focuses on the cultural consequences of monetization: the increase
in the proportion of all good and services bought and sold with money; the
various financial instruments used; assessment of their impact on social
relations, political and religious beliefs, and ethical and aesthetic values;
and the connections between money and culture.
001 HUM 118 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM     Schmeller, Mark           Enr: 10 Max: NA

HIST 298   AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY II                Credits 3.00  Spring 01
Continuation of Hist 297. From the Reconstruction era to the late 20th century.
 The course will examine the development of public and private law; property
rights and contract obligations; civil, criminal and administrative procedures;
and doctrines of procedural and substantive rights and liberties.  Among the
central concerns in this course will be the assertion, denial, or protection of
minority rights through legal processes and the continual conflict between
liberal and conservative constitutionalism.  Offered with additional work as
Hist 398. Hist 297/397 is not a prerequisite.
001 SH 207B - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM     Wilson, Steven            Enr: 31 Max: NA

HIST 300   INDEPENDENT STUDY                        Credits   Spring 01
Independent study under the supervision of a history faculty member.  Hours are
variable.
Permisssion of instructor.
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 5 Max: NA

HIST 302   EUROPE'S FIVE HUNDRED YEARS, 1815 TO PRE Credits 3.00  Spring 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Enriched version of Hist 102.  May not receive credit for both Hist 102 and
302. Recommended for Juniors and Seniors.
001 SH 303 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM      Caldwell, Peter C.        Enr: 11 Max: NA

HIST 304   UNDERGRADUATE  INDEPENDENT READING       Credits 3.00  Spring 01
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: 0 Max: NA

HIST 318   THE UNITED STATES,1877-PRESENT           Credits 3.00  Spring 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Enriched version of Hist 118. Students may not receive credit for both Hist 118
and 318.
001 SH 309 - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM      Schmeller, Mark           Enr: 18 Max: NA

HIST 321   THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION                Credits 3.00  Spring 01
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 HUM 328 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM     Van Helden, Albert        Enr: 10 Max: NA

HIST 329   TOPICS IN THE 1ST EURO EXPANSION, 1492-1 Credits 3.00  Spring 01
Study of early European expansion in the sixteenth-century and the
establishment of overseas colonial empires by France, Spain, Portugal, England,
and the Netherlands, with emphasis on the rationales for empire-building
created by concepts of "voluntary" subjection (through commercial treaties and
conversion) and involuntary submission (through conquest during a "just war").
001 HUM 327 - W 07:00PM - 10:00PM       Seed, Patricia            Enr: 16 Max: NA

HIST 336   CARIBBEAN HISTORY: 1838 TO PRESENT       Credits 3.00  Spring 01
Study of the social, economic, and political history of the Caribbean people
from the abolition of slavery to the emergence of independent nations in the
modern era.
001 SS 337 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM      Cox, Edward L.            Enr: 30 Max: NA

HIST 337   GENDER & POLITICS IN THE WEST            Credits 3.00  Spring 01
Enriched version of Hist 237. Students may not receive for both Hist 237 and
Hist 337. Also offered as Wgst 437.
001 FL 517 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM      Quillen, Carol E.         Enr: 6 Max: NA

HIST 342   MODERN CHINA                             Credits 3.00  Spring 01
Continuation of HIST 341.  Includes China's revolutionary transformation in the
19th and 20th centuries, from the Ching dynasty to the People's Republic.
May
take Hist 341 and 342 separately.
001 HUM 328 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM     Smith, Richard J.         Enr: 20 Max: NA

HIST 351   AMERICA SINCE 1945                       Credits 3.00  Spring 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Survey of major economic, social and political developments in the United
States since 1945.
Pre-req- Approval of instructor required.
001 HZ 210 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM      Matusow, Allen J.         Enr: 64 Max: 80

HIST 353   THE COLD WAR & HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE      Credits 3.00  Spring 01
The revolutionary events of 1989 undermined political, economic, and military
divisions between Eastern and Western Europe, encouraged hope for European
unification and economic prosperity, called into question the mental boundaries
dividing Europe, and challenged Europeans to reconsider their cognitive
organization of the world. This course examines differing perceptions and
legacies of communism by focusing on historical developments, questions about
knowledge claims and the production of historical knowledge. Enrollment is
limited to 25.
001 GRB 211W - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM    Dunlap, Tanya K.          Enr: 19 Max: 25

HIST 362   MODERN BRITISH HISTORY, 1815-2000        Credits 3.00  Spring 01
Exploration of Britain's take-off into the Industrial Revolution, the
flourishing of the Empire, and the adjustment to the end of Empire and the
diminishment of world political and economic stature from the First World War
to Tony Blair's "New Britain." Includes the use of novels and films to examine
these transformations.
001 SH 207A - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM     Wiener, Martin J.         Enr: 17 Max: NA

HIST 374   MODERN JEWISH HISTORY, 1500-1948         Credits 3.00  Spring 01
Enriched version of Hist 274. May not receive credit for Hist 274 and Hist 374.
001 HUM 118 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM     Haverkamp, Eva            Enr: 3 Max: NA

HIST 385   CHRISTIANS & JEWS IN THE MEDIEVAL ISLAMI Credits 3.00  Spring 01
Examination of Christian and Jewish communities in the Islamic world from the
rise of Islam to the end of the Ottoman Empire.  Includes the legal status of
dhimmis (protected peoples), social and economic life, communal organization,
interplay of Jewish and Muslim laws, and   political authority in these
communities, as well as discussion of their modern historiography, a
comparative study of Jewish communities in Christendom and Islam, and
discussion of Muslim communities living under Christian rule in the Middle
Ages.
001 SH 352A - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM       Sanders, Paula            Enr: 6 Max: NA

HIST 388   THE ATLANTIC WORLD: ORIGINS TO THE AGE O Credits 3.00  Spring 01
Enriched version of Hist 188. Students may receive credit for both Hist 188 and
Hist 388.
001 HUM 327 - MWF 08:00AM - 08:50AM     Byrd, Alexander Xavier    Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 394   WAR IN THE MODERN WORLD                  Credits 3.00  Spring 01
Enriched version of Hist 294.  Students may not receive credit for both 294 and
Hist 394.
001 HUM 117 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM     Gruber, Ira D.            Enr: 16 Max: NA

HIST 398   AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY II                Credits 3.00  Spring 01
An enriched version of Hist 298.  Students may not receive credit for both Hist
298 and 398.
001 SH 207B - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM     Wilson, Steven            Enr: 13 Max: NA

HIST 404   HONORS THESIS                            Credits 3.00  Spring 01
Continuation of Hist 403, which is prerequisite for enrollment.  Completion of
this course is required to obtain credit for Hist 403.
001 TBA - TBA                           Wolfe, Joel               Enr: 5 Max: NA

HIST 410   KENYA IN MODERN HISTORY                  Credits 3.00  Spring 01
Study of Kenya's transformation from tribal societies to a modern state.
Includes a survey of migrations and settlement, the emergence of pre-colonial
societies, their underlying cultural unities, and pre-capitalist socio-economic
formations, as well as the British conquest, the colonial state and economy,
changes (e.g., educational, religious, social, and cultural), traditions of
resistance and collaboration, the invention of tribes, politics (e.g., clan,
district, and territorial), Mau Mau, decolonization and constitutional changes,
the post-colonial state, and Kenya toward the end of the twentieth-century.
Enrollment is limited to 15.
001 FL 528 - TH 02:30PM - 05:30PM       Odhiambo, Atieno S.       Enr: 1 Max: 15

HIST 416   BLACKS IN RONALD REAGAN'S AMERICA        Credits 3.00  Spring 01
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 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 422   JAPANESE HISTORY II: MODERN JAPAN        Credits 3.00  Spring 01
Enriched version of Hist 222.  May not receive credit for both Hist 222 and 422.
001 HUM 327 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM     Thal, Sarah               Enr: 3 Max: NA

HIST 426   COMPARATIVE SLAVERY & RACE RELATIONS IN  Credits 3.00  Spring 01
A comparative analysis of slavery and race relations in the U.S., the
Caribbean, and Latin America, chiefly to the late nineteenth-century.  Includes
the relative harshness or mildness of the institution of slavery in various
systems, opportunities for advancement for former slaves, and the resultant
nature of race relations.
001 HZ 120 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM        Cox, Edward L.            Enr: 5 Max: NA

HIST 442   HISTORY OF AMERICAN WOMEN II: CIVIL WAR  Credits 3.00  Spring 01
Enriched version of HIST 242. Students may not receive credit for both HIST 242
and HST 442. Also offered as WGST 452.
001 HUM 327 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM     Sneider, Allison          Enr: 6 Max: NA

HIST 446   JEWISH & CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES IN THE MI Credits 3.00  Spring 01
In medieval Christian Europe, the Jewish communiites developed new forms of
life that were different from the patterns of Jewish communities in Babylon,
Israel, and the Islamic countries. This course will explore characteristics of
Jewish life during this period by comparing social, political, economical and
religious aspects of the Jewish culture with those of the medieval Christian
communities.
001 SH 562 - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM        Haverkamp, Eva            Enr: 3 Max: NA

HIST 450   TRADITIONAL CHINESE CULTURE              Credits 3.00  Spring 01
An enriched version of Hist 250.  Students may not receive credit for both Hist
250 and 450.
001 KH 101 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM      Smith, Richard J.         Enr: 6 Max: NA

HIST 451   PHILOSOPHIES & THEOLOGIES OF HISTORY     Credits 3.00  Spring 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Study of modern thought on the meaning and ultimate direction of history, from
its roots in eschatology and Augustine to flowering in progress and
historicism.  Includes Vico, Lessing, Hegel, Ranke, Burckhardt, Nietzsche,
Harnack, Troeltsch, Meinecke, Spengler, Heidegger, Butterfield, Dawson,
Schweitzer, Jaspers, and Toynbee. Also offered as Reli 451.
001 FL 524 - M 02:30PM - 05:30PM        Stroup, John M.           Enr: 7 Max: NA

HIST 459   TOPICS IN MODERN GERMAN HISTORY          Credits 3.00  Spring 01
Seminar on selected topics in the history of Germany. Contents vary from year
to year. Spring 2001: the seminar will focus on the social, political and
intellectual history of the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1989. Also offered
as GERM 405.
001 HZ 117 - T 02:30PM - 05:30PM        Caldwell, Peter C.        Enr: 5 Max: 15

HIST 462   NEWTON & THE 18TH CENTURY                Credits 3.00  Spring 01
Newton was the indispensable starting point for eighteenth-century thought from
the physical sciences to medicine and the so-called "human sciences." In this
course we will consider Newton himself and then the complex legacy of his
thought in eighteenth-century thinkers including Leibniz, Boerhaave, Voltaire,
Hume, Haller, Kant, Priestly, Blake, and Goethe.  Offered for graduate credit
as Hist 562.
001 HUM 327 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM     Van Helden, Albert        Enr: 10 Max: NA
                                        Zammito, John H.

HIST 464   FOREIGN POLICY OF NIXON AND KISSINGER    Credits 3.00  Spring 01
Seminar requiring three short research papers. Enrollment is limited to 12.
Prereq- permission of instructor required. Enrollment is limited to 15.
001 HUM 327 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM       Matusow, Allen J.         Enr: 17 Max: 12

HIST 465   COLONIAL AMERICA                         Credits 3.00  Spring 01
Study of the growth of society, thought, and politics in the English colonies
of North America.
001 HB 22 - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM         Gruber, Ira D.            Enr: 4 Max: NA

HIST 468   WOMEN AND THE WELFARE STATE: SEXUAL POLI Credits 3.00  Spring 01
In contemporary America women and children typically have been the major
recipients of the federal and state aid that comes under the heading of
welfare. It is less well known that women have also been some of the major
architects of the social programs that together constitute the American welfare
system. This seminar will focus on women's contributions to the growth of the
welfare state and investigates how it has been shaped by understandings of
gender, race, and class.  Also offered as WGST 468.
Limited enrollment to 15.
001 HB 22 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM         Sneider, Allison          Enr: 5 Max: 15

HIST 469   INTER-AMERICAN RELATIONS                 Credits 3.00  Spring 01
This seminar explores the long and contentious relationships between the United
States and the Latin American nations. Focus will be placed on events from the
late nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries. Analysis of these events will be
presented through the lenses of political, economic, social, and cultural
history. Offered for graduate credit as Hist 569.
Enrollment is limited to 15.
001 TBA - F 01:00PM - 04:00PM           Wolfe, Joel               Enr: 12 Max: 15

HIST 476   TRADITION, IDENTITY, AND HISTORICAL WRIT Credits 3.00  Spring 01
Exploration of the intersection of cultural tradition, collective identity, and
historical writing in the modern West.  Includes the uses made of the classical
past in movements from Renaissance humanism to contemporary Afrocentrism, the
development of nationalist traditions, and the creation of European identities
through juxtapositions with other cultures. Limited enrollment. Also offered as
Fren 476.
Also offered as FREN 476
001 HUM 119 - T 02:30PM - 05:30PM       Quillen, Carol E.         Enr: 0 Max: NA
                                        Sherman, Daniel J.

HIST 492   MODERNITY & RELIGION                     Credits 3.00  Spring 01
The role of religion and faith in the modern world has often been problematic.
Considered antithetical to such hallmarks of European and American modernity as
science, capitalism, and separation of church and state, religious beliefs and
practices have nevertheless occupied a vibrant place in modern intellectual,
social, and political history. In this seminar, we will analyze the role of
religion in the twentieth-century through case studies from around the world.
Topics vary. Spring 2001: church-state relations; miracles and rationality, and
consumerism and belief. Also offered as Reli 492.
Limited enrollment of 15.
001 HB 21 - T 02:30PM - 05:30PM         Thal, Sarah               Enr: 1 Max: 15

HIST 498   SEMINAR IN AFRICAN AND AFRO-AMERICAN MIG Credits 3.00  Spring 01
A reading and writing intensive seminar focusing on problems in the history of
African and Afro-American migration from the eighteenth-century to the present.
Students will attend to a series of diverse case studies relating to the
history of black mobility. Discussion, assignments, and a research project will
focus on cross-cultural and diachronic issues relevant to mulitple cases and to
migration in general.
Limited enrollment to 15.
001 FL 412 - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM        Byrd, Alexander Xavier    Enr: 4 Max: 15

HIST 502   MASTER'S HISTORICAL RESEARCH             Credits   Spring 01
Research for master's thesis. Must take both 501 and 502 to receive credit.
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 504   GRADUATE TOPICS                          Credits   Spring 01
No description
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 512   DIRECTED READING AMERICAN HISTORY  I     Credits 4.00  Spring 01
No description.
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 514   DIRECTED READINGS IN AMERICAN HISTORY II Credits 4.00  Spring 01
No description
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 1 Max: NA

HIST 516   DIRECTED READINGS IN MILITARY HISTORY II Credits 4.00  Spring 01
No description
001 TBA - TBA                           Gruber, Ira D.            Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 518   DIRECTED  READINGS SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY  Credits 4.00  Spring 01
001 TBA - TBA                           Van Helden, Albert        Enr: 1 Max: NA

HIST 522   DIRECTED READINGS IN MEDIEVAL HISTORY    Credits 4.00  Spring 01
No description.
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 526   DIRECTED READINGS IN AFRICAN HISTORY     Credits 4.00  Spring 01
No description.
001 TBA - TBA                           Odhiambo, Atieno S.       Enr: 1 Max: NA

HIST 528   DIRECTED READING IN NON-WESTERN HISTORY  Credits 4.00  Spring 01
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 2 Max: NA

HIST 530   DIRECTED  READING-MODERN  EUROPEAN HISTO Credits 4.00  Spring 01
No description.
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 532   DIRECTED READING-MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY Credits 4.00  Spring 01
No description.
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 1 Max: NA

HIST 553   HISTORY AS TEXT IN MODERN FRANCE         Credits 4.00  Spring 01
Examination of major nineteenth- and twentieth-century historical texts both as
narratives about the French past and as discourses embodying particular
attitudes toward contemporary society and politics. Includes the emergence of a
"scientific" history of the Revolution (e.g., Michelet, Tocqueville, and Taine)
and its relation to the historical novel; the Annales school and the quesiton
of French identity (e.g., Bloch and Braudel); and the politics of theory in
recent French history (e.g., Foucault and Chartier). Also offered as Fren 553.
001 SH 560 - W 04:00PM - 07:00PM        Sherman, Daniel J.        Enr: 1 Max: NA

HIST 562   NEWTON AND THE 18TH CENTURY              Credits 4.00  Spring 01
Graduate version of HIST 462. Students may not receive credit for both HIST 462
and HIST 562.
001 HUM 327 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM     Van Helden, Albert        Enr: 2 Max: NA
                                        Zammito, John H.

HIST 564   GRADUATE READING SEMINAR IN EARLY AMERIC Credits 4.00  Spring 01
Study of major works on the English colonies of North America, as well as
topics of particular interest to individual students, from 1607-1800.
001 SH 303 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM        Gruber, Ira D.            Enr: 3 Max: NA

HIST 569   INTER-AMERICAN RELATIONS                 Credits 3.00  Spring 01
Graduate version of Hist 469. Students may not receive credit for both Hist 469
and 569.
001 HUM 327 - F 01:00PM - 04:00PM       Wolfe, Joel               Enr: 3 Max: NA

HIST 582   MAJOR ISSUES IN MODERN BRITISH & IMPERIA Credits 4.00  Spring 01
Readings and discussions on major issues in modern British history. Required
for graduate students in British history.
001 HUM 327 - T 07:00PM - 10:00PM       Wiener, Martin J.         Enr: 4 Max: NA

HIST 583   SOUTHERN HISTORY                         Credits 4.00  Spring 01
Seminar on religion and slavery in the Old South.
001 HUM 327 - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM       Boles, John B.            Enr: 5 Max: NA

HIST 591   GRADUATE READING                         Credits 1.00  Spring 01
Graduate reading in conjunction with another course.
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 1 Max: NA

HIST 592   GRADUATE READING                         Credits 1.00  Spring 01
Graduate reading in conjunction with another course.
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 1 Max: NA

HIST 593   GRADUATE READING                         Credits 1.00  Spring 01
Graduate reading in conjunction with another course.
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 800   PH.D RESEARCH                            Credits   Spring 01
Research for doctoral dissertation.
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 16 Max: NA



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