Rice Course Schedule, Spring 2002
History (HIST)
Rice Course Schedule as of 03/20/2002.
This schedule is maintained by the Office of the Registrar
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HIST 102 EUROPE'S FIVE HUNDRED YEARS, 1815 TO PRE Credits 3.00 Spring 02
* 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 HUM 328 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM Bjork, James Enr: 14 Max: 0
HIST 113 GOD, TIME, AND HISTORY Credits 3.00 Spring 02
* 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.
Enrollment is limited. Also offered as Reli 123 and Huma 113.
001 HUM 117 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Henze, Matthias Enr: 10 Max: 13
Maas, Michael R.
HIST 118 THE UNITED STATES,1877-PRESENT Credits 3.00 Spring 02
* 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: 22 Max: 0
HIST 160 FRESHMAN SEMINAR: JEFFERSON & THE ORIGIN Credits 3.00 Spring 02
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 KH 107 - T 02:30PM - 05:30PM Gruber, Ira D. Enr: 9 Max: 15
HIST 166 THE CLASSIC OF CHANGES IN ASIAN & WORLD Credits 3.00 Spring 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Over the past two millennia or so, the Yijing (I-ching; Classic of Changes) has
been, with the notable exception of the Bible, the most widely read and
extensively analyzed book in all of world literature. How do we account for
its transcultural spread and enduring influence? What aspects of it can it be
compared to other "classic" works as a document of truly global significance?
Enrollment limited to 15. Open only to Freshmen.
001 HUM 120 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM Smith, Richard J. Enr: 3 Max: 15
HIST 203 INTRO TO MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATION THE HIGH Credits 3.00 Spring 02
* 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. Also offered as Huma 103 and Mdst 203.
001 SH 309 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Stahl, Alan Enr: 28 Max: 0
HIST 207 INTRODUCTION TO ANCIENT GREECE: FROM HOM Credits 3.00 Spring 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Overview of the literary, artistic, and intellectual monuments of classical
Greek civilization from Homer and the Bronze Age through the golden age of
classical Athens to the spread of Greek cultre in the Hellenistic world.
Includes historical background and readings in primary sources. Also offered as
Clas 207 and Huma 109.
001 GRB 211W - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM George, Coulter Enr: 3 Max: 7
HIST 212 AMERICAN THOUGHT & SOCIETY II Credits 3.00 Spring 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Continuation of Hist 211. Includes nineteenth and twentieth-century American
history. May take Hist 211 and Hist 212 separately. Offered with additional
work as Hist 312.
001 HUM 328 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Haskell, Thomas L. Enr: 11 Max: 0
HIST 215 BLACKS IN THE AMERICAS Credits 3.00 Spring 02
This comparative survey of black people in the Americas for 1619 to the present
examines the Atlantic slave trade, the movement toward slave emancipation in
various countries, and nineteenth-century black self-help efforts. The course
also concentrates on economic conditions for blacks at the turn of the
twentieth-century. Offered with additional work as Hist 315.
001 HUM 117 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Byrd, Alexander Xavier Enr: 14 Max: 0
Cox, Edward L.
HIST 237 GENDER AND POLITICS IN EUROPEAN HISTORY Credits 3.00 Spring 02
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 RH 106 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Quillen, Carol E. Enr: 9 Max: 0
HIST 242 HISTORY OF AMERICAN WOMEN II: CIVIL WAR Credits 3.00 Spring 02
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 392. Also offered as Wgst 235.
001 HUM 327 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Sneider, Allison Enr: 5 Max: 0
HIST 257 JEWS AND CHRISTIANS IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE Credits 3.00 Spring 02
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. Topics will include settlement and demography, economical situation,
legal status, hostility against Jews, Jewish-Christian contacts and images
about another, Jewish family and the position of women, communal organizations,
social diversity and community life, intellectual and spiritual achievements.
Offered with additional work as Hist 357. Also offered as Mdst 257.
001 HUM 327 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Haverkamp, Eva Enr: 1 Max: 0
HIST 268 FORCED MIGRATION IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Convict transportation existed as a global phenomenon from the early modern era
and was embedded in the first wave of European imperialism. This survey course
explores penal transportation within the broader context of forced migration,
examining the complexities of early colonial settlements in the Americas,
Africa, Asia and Australia.
001 HUM 327 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Ward, Kerry Enr: 4 Max: 0
HIST 278 ARAB WORLD IN THE 20TH CENTURY 1914-PRES Credits 3.00 Spring 02
The history and culture of the Arab world as it has developed from World War to
the present. Themes covered are nationalism, colonialism and orientalism, as
they have been understood and discussed in the contemporary Arab world through
debates about the question of Palestine, the status of women and the rise of
modern Islamic politics.
001 HUM 327 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM Makdisi, Ussama Enr: 16 Max: 0
HIST 286 THE REFORMATION & ITS RESULTS Credits 3.00 Spring 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
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 HUM 226 - TH 02:30PM - 05:30PM Stroup, John M. Enr: 5 Max: 0
HIST 300 INDEPENDENT STUDY Credits Spring 02
Independent study under the supervision of a history faculty member. Hours are
variable.
Permisssion of instructor.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 9 Max: 0
HIST 302 EUROPE'S FIVE HUNDRED YEARS, 1815 TO PRE Credits 3.00 Spring 02
* 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 HUM 328 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM Bjork, James Enr: 9 Max: 0
HIST 304 UNDERGRADUATE INDEPENDENT READING Credits 3.00 Spring 02
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: 0
HIST 307 IMPERIAL ROME FROM CAESAR TO DIOCLETIAN Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Examination of how Rome acquire, maintain, and understand her empire? Includes
the development of a political, social, and ideological system reaching from
Scotland to Mesopotamia during the three centuries of Rome's greatest power.
001 SH 303 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Maas, Michael R. Enr: 30 Max: 0
HIST 312 AMERICAN THOUGHT & SOCIETY II Credits 3.00 Spring 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An enriched version of Hist 212. Students may not receive credit for both Hist
212 and 312.
001 HUM 328 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Haskell, Thomas L. Enr: 6 Max: 0
HIST 315 BLACKS IN THE AMERICAS Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Enriched version of Hist 215. May not receive credit for both Hist 215 and
Hist 315.
001 HUM 117 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Byrd, Alexander Xavier Enr: 24 Max: 0
Cox, Edward L.
HIST 318 THE UNITED STATES,1877-PRESENT Credits 3.00 Spring 02
* 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: 13 Max: 0
HIST 326 INTRO. TO MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATION:THE HIGH Credits 3.00 Spring 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An enriched version of Hist 203. Students may not receive credit for both 203
and 326. Also offered as Mdst 326.
001 SH 309 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Stahl, Alan Enr: 9 Max: 0
HIST 337 GENDER & POLITICS IN EUROPEAN HISTORY Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Enriched version of Hist 237. Students may not receive for both Hist 237 and
Hist 337. Also offered as Wgst 437.
001 RH 106 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Quillen, Carol E. Enr: 4 Max: 0
HIST 338 HUMANIST TRADITION & ITS CRITICS Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Exploration of aspects of Western humanist and anthumanist traditions from the
early modern period to the present, with emphasis on how writers within each
tradition understoond fundamental terms like humas nature, self, community,
morality, and freedom. Includes literary, theological, and philosophical
texts, as well as contemporary critical theory. Must see instructor before
preregistration.
001 RH 304 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Quillen, Carol E. Enr: 8 Max: 0
HIST 342 MODERN CHINA Credits 3.00 Spring 02
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: 19 Max: 0
HIST 355 FROM DEMOCARCY TO DICTATORSHIP: GERMAN H Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Between 1890 and 1945, Germans experienced dramatic changes in their political
environment. This lecture class examines these changes, taking into account not
only political history, but also attempts to come to terms with the challenges
posed by organized capitalism; the rise and fall of socialism; the development
of an interventionist state; cultural critique and political culture; the Nazi
social revolution; and the Holocaust.
001 HUM 327 - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM Bjork, James Enr: 16 Max: NA
HIST 357 JEWS & CHRISTIANS IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Enriched version of Hist 257. May not receive credit for both
Hist 257 and
Hist 357. Also offered as Mdst 357.
001 HUM 327 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Haverkamp, Eva Enr: 2 Max: 0
HIST 362 MODERN BRITISH HISTORY, 1815-2000 Credits 3.00 Spring 02
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 HUM 327 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Wiener, Martin J. Enr: 11 Max: 0
HIST 366 MODERN BRAZIL Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Lecture and discussion course that examines Brazil's history, from its peaceful
independence declaration in 1822 to its present struggles to create a
democratic society in the aftermath of a twenty-year military dictatorship.
Close attention will be paid to Brazil's legacy as the world's largest
slave-holding society in the nineteenth-century, its struggle to conquer its
hugh territory, and the interaction of those factors in shaping its national
identity. A Portuguese FLAC component will also be offered with this course,
Port 200.
001 SS 106 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Wolfe, Joel Enr: 57 Max: 0
HIST 369 FILM, LITERATURE & THE JAPANESE PAST Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Every day, we retell our past to find meaning in our present. Authors and film
directors in Janpan have shaped national identities, created moral ideas, made
sense of the horrors or war, and articulated new visions of the future-- all
through artistic reinterpretations of historical themes. In this class, we will
examine both these allusions to the past and the uses to which they have been
put in Japanese film and literature over the years. Also offered as ASIA 369.
Enrollment is limited to 20.
001 KH 107 - TTH 09:15AM - 10:40AM Thal, Sarah Enr: 6 Max: 20
HIST 370 EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY: BACON TO Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Survey of major thinkers and intellectual movements from the scientific
revolution to the French Revolution. Includes the use of primary and secondary
sources to establish the main contours of philosophical, political, and
cultural expression and to relate them to their historical context.
001 SS 337 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Zammito, John H. Enr: 31 Max: 0
HIST 378 THE ARAB WORLD IN THE 20TH CENTURY, 1914 Credits 3.00 Spring 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Enriched version of Hist 278. May not receive credit for both Hist 278 and 378.
001 TBA - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM Makdisi, Ussama Enr: 4 Max: NA
HIST 392 HISTORY OF AMERICAN WOMEN II: CIVIL WAR Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Enriched version of Hist 242. Students may not receive credit for both Hist
242 and Hist 392. Also offered as Wgst 382.
001 HUM 327 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Sneider, Allison Enr: 8 Max: 0
HIST 404 HONORS THESIS Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Continuation of Hist 403, which is prerequisite for enrollment. Completion of
this course is required to obtain credit for Hist 403.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 6 Max: 0
HIST 416 SEMINAR IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN-AMERICAN Credits 3.00 Spring 02
A 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. Topic for Spring 2002: Blacks in Reagan's America. Enrollment limited
to 15.
001 HZ 119 - F 01:00PM - 04:00PM Byrd, Alexander Xavier Enr: 10 Max: 15
HIST 432 ISLAM IN SOUTH ASIA Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Seminar on history and politics of Islam and Muslims in the South Asian
subcontinent. Topics will include emergence of Indian Muslim society; Muslim
reponses to colonialism and the movement of Pakistan; and the role of of Islam
in politics in contemporary India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Particular
emphasis on how elites as well as ordinary individuals, men as well as women,
have contributed to the history and politics of the region. Requires no prior
knowledge of Islam or South Asia. Also offered as Asia 432 and Wgst 432.
Enrollment is limited.
001 RH 205 - T 02:30PM - 05:30PM Shehabuddin, Rahnuma Enr: 7 Max: 4
HIST 434 ISLAM & THE WEST Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Beginning with the Crusades and continuing through the Ottoman period, and
ending in the modern era this seminar will investigate 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, we will seek to understand how
traditions are "invented" by tracing the relationship between civilization and
despotism, freedom and tyranny, religious tolerance and holy war. Enrollment is
limited to 15.
001 HZ 119 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM Makdisi, Ussama Enr: 9 Max: 15
HIST 444 MEMORY & COMMEMORATION IN THE MIDDLE AGE Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Memory and commemoration are generally described as intentions, attitudes,
acts, and media that should prevent oblivion of individuals and communities
(beyond death). They determine thought, emotions, and actions in fundamental
ways possessing universal dimensions that go back to antiquity and influence
the present. Today, they are often driven out either into the atomistic sphere
of individual remembrance, the institutional realm of politics, or the secluded
world of museums. However, suppression enhances their importance for our life.
Also offered as Mdst 444. Enrollment limited to 15.
001 HUM 328 - T 02:30PM - 05:30PM Haverkamp, Eva Enr: 3 Max: 10
HIST 451 PHILOSOPHIES & THEOLOGIES OF HISTORY Credits 3.00 Spring 02
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 HUM 226 - M 02:30PM - 05:30PM Stroup, John M. Enr: 4 Max: 0
HIST 466 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1754-1789 Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Study of he origins and implications of the American Revolution, emphasis on
constitutional, social, and political developments. Enrollment limited to 15.
001 HUM 119 - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM Gruber, Ira D. Enr: 14 Max: 15
HIST 469 INTER-AMERICAN RELATIONS Credits 3.00 Spring 02
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 HUM 327 - F 02:00PM - 05:00PM Wolfe, Joel Enr: 16 Max: 15
HIST 481 THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICAN CULTURE: BEFO Credits 3.00 Spring 02
This seminar is comprised of three parts: and assessment of the causes of the
Civil War; exploration of American culture during the war, asking how
Unionists, Confederates, men, women, and African-Americans experienced and
understood the conflict; and an analysis of the role of the war in American
political and cultural history from 1865 to the present by examining changing
interpretations put forth by historians, politicians, novels, films, and public
monuments and festivals. Enrollment limited to 15.
001 KH 105 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM Schmeller, Mark Enr: 11 Max: 15
HIST 488 TOPICS IN MEDIEVAL HISTORY: MEDIEVAL ITA Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Reasearch seminar on selescted issues, subject or themes in medieval history.
Spring 2002: The development of the Italian communes from ancient Roman centers
through their role in the birth of the Renaissance. Urban civilization played
a stronger role in the life of medieval Italy than in other areas of Europe.
Attention will be paid to artistic, urbanistic, devotional and literary
developments as well as to political and social institutions. Each participant
will research and report on a specific city through the period and topics under
study. Also offered as Mdst 488.
001 HZ 117 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM Stahl, Alan Enr: 6 Max: 0
HIST 489 MIGRATIONS & DIASPORAS IN THE INDIAN OCE Credits 3.00 Spring 02
The Indian Ocean presents an enormously varied arena of cultural exchange and
interaction spanning coastal regions of Africa, the Middle East, South and
Southeast Asia and Australia. This seminar course introduces students to this
fascinating region by examining societies and empires shaped by voyages of
exploration, religious pilgrimages, trading diasporas and forced migration.
Also offered as ASIA 489. Enrollment is limited.
001 HUM 120 - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM Ward, Kerry Enr: 4 Max: 8
HIST 492 MODERNITY & RELIGION Credits 3.00 Spring 02
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. Also offered as Reli 492. Offered for graduate credit as Hist 572.
Limited enrollment of 12.
001 HUM 327 - TH 02:30PM - 05:30PM Thal, Sarah Enr: 0 Max: 8
HIST 502 MASTER'S HISTORICAL RESEARCH Credits Spring 02
Research for master's thesis. Must take both 501 and 502 to receive credit.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 0
HIST 504 GRADUATE TOPICS Credits Spring 02
No description
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 0
HIST 512 DIRECTED READING AMERICAN HISTORY I Credits 4.00 Spring 02
No description.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 3 Max: 0
HIST 514 DIRECTED READINGS IN AMERICAN HISTORY II Credits 4.00 Spring 02
No description
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 1 Max: 0
HIST 515 DIRECTED READINGS IN MILITARY HISTORY I Credits 4.00 Spring 02
No description
001 TBA - TBA Gruber, Ira D. Enr: 0 Max: NA
HIST 516 DIRECTED READINGS IN MILITARY HISTORY II Credits 4.00 Spring 02
No description
001 TBA - TBA Gruber, Ira D. Enr: 0 Max: 0
HIST 518 DIRECTED READINGS SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Credits 4.00 Spring 02
No description.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 0
HIST 522 DIRECTED READINGS IN MEDIEVAL HISTORY Credits 4.00 Spring 02
No description.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 0
HIST 526 DIRECTED READINGS IN AFRICAN HISTORY Credits 4.00 Spring 02
No description.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 1 Max: 0
HIST 527 DIRECTED READING IN NON-WESTERN HISTORY, Credits 4.00 Spring 02
No description.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 2 Max: NA
HIST 528 DIRECTED READING IN NON-WESTERN HISTORY, Credits 4.00 Spring 02
No description.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 2 Max: 0
HIST 530 DIRECTED READING-MODERN EUROPEAN HISTO Credits 4.00 Spring 02
No description.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 2 Max: 0
HIST 532 DIRECTED READING-MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY Credits 4.00 Spring 02
No description.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 0
HIST 550 MAIN ISSUES IN CARIBBEAN HISTORY Credits 4.00 Spring 02
Examination of the major local and international forces and ideas that have
shaped the course of the history of the Caribbean.
001 HUM 327 - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM Cox, Edward L. Enr: 5 Max: 0
HIST 551 GRADUATE SEMINAR IN U.S. WOMEN'S HISTORY Credits 4.00 Spring 02
Reading seminar designed to introduce students to a growing body of literature
on women and politics that is changing the way historians understand American
political history, women's history, and the history of the state. By
considering a variety of scholarship on women and politics students are
introduced to the major questions that have occupied historians for decades, as
well as new questions that are beginning to shape the field.
001 RH 205 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM Sneider, Allison Enr: 3 Max: 0
HIST 561 GRADUATE TOPICS IN EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL Credits 4.00 Spring 02
Graduate research seminar on selected themes in European intellectual history.
Topic in Spring 2002: The Scottish Enlightenment. The course will begin with
an examination of the social and political context for the emergence of the
Scottish Enlightenment and conclude by examining the reception of Scottish
thought in Germany. Readings will involve primary and secondary sources on
major figures including Hutcheson, Hume, Kames, Robertson, Ferguson, and Smith.
Reading knowledge of German is not required, but definitely advantageous.
001 HUM 327 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM Zammito, John H. Enr: 10 Max: 0
HIST 572 MODERNITY & RELIGION Credits 4.00 Spring 02
Graduate version of Hist 492. Students may not receive credit for both Hist
492 and 572.
001 HUM 327 - TH 02:30PM - 05:30PM Thal, Sarah Enr: 6 Max: 0
HIST 582 READING SEMINAR IN BRITISH & IMPERIAL HI Credits 4.00 Spring 02
Readings and discussions on major issues in modern British history. Required
for graduate students in British history.
001 HUM 327 - T 02:30PM - 05:30PM Wiener, Martin J. Enr: 8 Max: 0
HIST 591 GRADUATE READING Credits 1.00 Spring 02
Graduate reading in conjunction with another course.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 2 Max: 0
HIST 592 GRADUATE READING Credits 1.00 Spring 02
Graduate reading in conjunction with another course.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 2 Max: 0
HIST 593 GRADUATE READING Credits 1.00 Spring 02
Graduate reading in conjunction with another course.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 0
HIST 595 GRADUATE READING SEMINAR IN THE AMERICAN Credits 4.00 Spring 02
Seminar on major scholarly literature of southern history. Includes readings,
discussions, and a major paper on a historiographical topic decided in
consultation with the instructor.
001 RH 205 - T 02:30PM - 05:30PM Boles, John B. Enr: 9 Max: 0
HIST 800 PH.D RESEARCH Credits Spring 02
Research for doctoral dissertation.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 12 Max: 0
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