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HIST 102 EUROPE'S 500 YEARS 1815-PRES Credits 3.00 Spring 97
* FOUNDATION COURSE: GROUP II
Continuation of Hist 101. Both courses can be taken separately.
Recommended for Freshmen and Sophomores.
Offered with additional work as Hist 302.
001 MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM RH*110 Stokes, Gale
HIST 206 INTRO TO ASIAN CIVILIZATIONS Credits 3.00 Spring 97
* FOUNDATION 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 111 and Reli 211.
001 TTH 02:30PM-03:50PM RH*110 Klein, Anne
001 Smith, Richard
001 Qian, Nanxiu
HIST 210 VIOLENCE IN THE MIDDLE AGES Credits 1.00 Spring 97
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Violence in various forms and its effects on the culture of the Middle
Ages. Topics to be addressed include: the public violence of warfare
and military technology, the religious violence of the Crusades and
persecution of the Jews, the social violence of the feudal system and
the peasant revolts, the political violence of the formation and growth
of the state, domestic violence and violence against women, violence and
chivalric ideals, violent religious symbolism and the renunciation of
violence. Also to be addressed will be some general issue about the
role of violence in history.
001 MWF 01:00PM-01:50PM GRB*208W Kuefler, Matthew
HIST 211 AMERICAN THOUGHT AND SOCIETY I Credits 3.00 Spring 97
* FOUNDATION COURSE: GROUP II
A topical introductory survey of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century
American history, primarily concerned with intellectual and social
developments underlying the surface of events. Offered with
additional work as History 311.
001 TTH 09:25AM-10:40AM SH*303 Haskell, Thomas
HIST 232 THE MAKING OF MODERN AFRICA Credits 3.00 Spring 97
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This course surveys the transformation of Africa from the late 19th
century to the present. The topics covered include: Europe and Africa in
the 19th century; the scramble for and the partition of Africa; the
evolution of the colonial state; economic change in the 20th century;
plantation and peasant agriculture, mining and industrialization, wage
and migrant labour, African capitalism, rural differentiation, the roots
of hunger and poverty; social change in the 20th Century: the invention
of ethnic identity; the emergence of the elites; cultural
policies--language, leisure; the changing roles of women; relilgion and
cultural resistances; the rival conceptions of law and order, changes in
medicine and healing, urbanization; political developments: ethnic
unions, poliltical parties, and decolonization; Africa since
independence: the economic and political crises.
001 MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM FL*525 Odhiambo, Atieno
HIST 244 INTRO TO WOMEN'S HISTORY Credits 3.00 Spring 97
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
What does it mean to study women's history? Is women's history the same
thing as the history of women? This course which surveys topics in U.S.
Women's history examines both the range of
approaches and the types of evidence used by scholars in the field. We
will also discuss the relationship of women's history to several related
fields, including feminist theory, gender studies, and the history of
sexuality. Offered with additional work as Hist 344.
001 TTH 10:50AM-12:05PM FL*524 Quillen, Carol
HIST 250 CHINESE CULTURE Credits 3.00 Spring 97
* FOUNDATION COURSE: GROUP II
An introduction to the language, philosophy, religion, art, literature,
and social customs of China.
Offered with additional work as Hist 450.
001 TTH 01:00PM-02:20PM RH*110 Smith, Richard
HIST 262 HIST. ENGLAND: 1815 TO PRESENT Credits 3.00 Spring 97
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
England's take-off into the Industrial Revolution and how it has adapted
to the flourishing of the Empire. The twentieth-century geopolitical
and economic decline. Novels, biographies, and other materials are used
to examine the transformation of Britain in the past two centuries.
Lectures, discussions, and frequent short papers. Offered with
additional work as Hist 362.
001 TTH 01:00PM-02:20PM FL*525 Wiener, Martin
HIST 269 U.S.-LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS Credits 3.00 Spring 97
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This course is a basic history of U.S.-Latin American Relations from
1775 to the present. Particular attention is given to twentieth century
policies and problems focusing on intervention since 1945.
Offered with additional work as Hist 469.
001 TTH 02:30PM-03:50PM SH*305 Seed, Patricia
HIST 281 HISTORY OF THE ISLAMIC NEAR EAST, 600 - Credits 3.00 Spring 97
* FOUNDATION COURSE: GROUP II
A survey of the basic political, institutional, and social history of
the Near East from the rise of Islam to the Mongol invasions. We will
pay particular attention to the elaboration of political and religious
institutions (especially the caliphate and sultanate), the origins and
rise of Shii Islam, the caliphal empires, and the advent of the Turkic
peoples. (lecture/discussion)
Offered with additional work as Hist 381.
001 TTH 09:25AM-10:40AM HB*227 Sanders, Paula
HIST 298 CONST & LEGAL HIST OF U.S. II Credits 3.00 Spring 97
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Major questions in the historical development of American law and
governing institutions.
Offered with additional work as Hist 398.
001 TTH 10:50AM-12:05PM FL*525 Hyman, Harold
HIST 300 INDEPENDENT STUDIES Credits 1.00 Spring 97
Independent study under supervision of a history faculty member.
Permission of instructor is required.
001 TBA
HIST 302 EUROPE'S 500 YEARS 1815-PRES Credits 3.00 Spring 97
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An enriched version of Hist 102. Students may not receive credit for
both Hist 102 and 302.
Recommended for Juniors and Seniors.
001 MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM RH*110 Stokes, Gale
HIST 311 AMERICAN THOUGHT & SOCIETY I Credits 3.00 Spring 97
* 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*303 Haskell, Thomas
HIST 321 SCIENCE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE Credits 3.00 Spring 97
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Between 1400 and 1700, Greek science, assimilated during the High Middle
Ages, was radically transformed, not only in content but also in method
and institutional setting. The thought of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo,
Descartes, Newton, and others will be examined in the context of the
more general cultural history of this period.
001 TTH 10:50AM-12:05PM HB*453 Van Helden, Albert
HIST 327 COLONIAL LATIN AMER HISTORY I Credits 3.00 Spring 97
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
The first part of a two semester survey course of Latin America
focusing on construction of the self and "other" narrative
strategies and rhetoric. The colonial part examines narratives of
conquest, travel, and piracy in Latin America and the Caribbean in the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
001 F 01:00PM-04:00PM FL*525 Seed, Patricia
HIST 331 LABOR IN AMERICA, 1620 TO PRES Credits 3.00 Spring 97
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This survey of labor in America will examine workers and their responses
to economic and social changes from colonial times to the present.
Topics will include the rise and fall of slavery, the coming of
industrialism, domestic labor, the question of American exceptionalism,
the Great Upheaval of the late 19th century, the New Deal, the decline
of industrialism, and the future of labor. The course will examine the
meaning of class as a concept and identity, its relationship to concepts
of race and gender, and how these ideas shaped working class activism.
Enrollment is limited to 25.
001 MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM FL*517 Shelton, Robert
HIST 336 CARIBBEAN HISTORY: 1838 TO THE PRESENT Credits 3.00 Spring 97
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Social, economic, and political history of the people from the abolition
of slavery to the emergence of independent nations in the modern era.
001 MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM FL*525 Cox, Edward
HIST 338 HUMANIST TRADITION AND ITS CRITICS Credits 3.00 Spring 97
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This course explores the development of the humanist tradition from its
origins in the Renaissance to the present. We will focus first on the
political, "civic" dimensions of humanism, concentrating on
interpretations of Machiavelli's writings. Then we will study the
implications of "literary" humanism for ideas about education, including
our contemporary debates about university curricula and the role of the
university in society. Students interested in this class should see the
instructor prior to pre-registration.
Enrollment limited to 15.
001 W 02:00PM-05:00PM RH*320 Quillen, Carol
HIST 344 INTRO TO WOMEN'S HISTORY Credits 3.00 Spring 97
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An enriched version of Hist 244. Students may not receive credit for
both Hist 244 and Hist 344.
001 TTH 10:50AM-12:05PM FL*524 Quillen, Carol
HIST 350 AMERICA FROM 1900 TO 1940 Credits 3.00 Spring 97
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Survey of major economic, social, and political developments in the
United States from 1900 to 1940. Lectures, readings, discussions and
one research paper.
001 TTH 10:50AM-12:05PM RH*110 Matusow, Allen
HIST 355 MODERN GERMANY, 1890-1990 Credits 3.00 Spring 97
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
The German search for freedom and unity in international perspective.
Special emphasis on the life and times of Frederick the Great, Otto von
Bismarck, Adolf Hitler, Konrad Adenauer, the postwar division of the
country and the events of 1989-1990.
001 MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM FL*524 Caldwell, Peter
HIST 362 HISTORY OF ENGLAND 1815 TO PRESENT Credits 3.00 Spring 97
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An enriched version of Hist 262. Students may not receive credit for
both Hist 262 and Hist 362.
001 TTH 01:00PM-02:20PM FL*525 Wiener, Martin
HIST 372 THE MAKING OF MODERN FRANCE 1815-1995 Credits 3.00 Spring 97
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
The emergence of Modern France: the impact of war, industrialization,
imperialism, and cultural mastery.
Also offered as Fren 372.
001 TTH 01:00PM-02:20PM GRB*208W Sherman, Daniel
HIST 375 EUROPEAN ROMANTICISM 1750-1850 Credits 3.00 Spring 97
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This course will investigate the emergence, triumph and defeat of
Romanticism as a major cultural force in European history. We will
focus on national and epochal diversity within Romanticism, considering
the British, German and French cases. Major literary figures for
consideration are Rousseau, Goethe, Schiller, Schlegel, Schelling,
Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Stendhal, Hugo and Baudelaire. The course
will try to incorporate the music and art of Romanticism as well.
001 MWF 01:00PM-01:50PM SH*307 Zammito, John
HIST 380 INTELLECTUAL POLITICS IN POSTWAR FRANCE Credits 3.00 Spring 97
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
We will examine the rise and fall of three major intellectual paradigms
in postwar France--existential humanism, poststructuralism, and
neoliberalism--as they relate to broader themes of French political and
cultural history.
001 M 07:00PM-10:00PM FL*517 Wolin, Richard
HIST 381 HISTORY OF THE ISLAMIC NEAR EAST, 600-12 Credits 3.00 Spring 97
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An enriched version of Hist 281. Students may not receive credit for
both Hist 281 and Hist 381.
001 TTH 09:25AM-10:40AM HB*227 Sanders, Paula
HIST 387 LIFE ON THE NILE: EGYPTIAN POLITICS; CUL Credits 3.00 Spring 97
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An examination of Egyptian history from the Arab conquest in 641 until
the 20th century, focusing on major themes in Egypt's political, social,
and cultural life, on historical continuities and discontinuities, and
on problems of historical interpretation. Lecture/discussion.
001 TTH 01:00PM-02:20PM FL*524 Sanders, Paula
HIST 398 CONS & LEGAL HIST OF U.S. II Credits 3.00 Spring 97
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An enriched version of Hist 298. Students may not receive credit for
both Hist 298 and 398.
001 TTH 10:50AM-12:05PM FL*525 Hyman, Harold
HIST 404 HONORS THESIS Credits 3.00 Spring 97
See Hist 402 and 403.
001 TBA TBA TBA
HIST 410 KENYA IN MODERN HISTORY Credits 3.00 Spring 97
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This course will trace the path of the transformation of Kenya from
tribal societies to a modern state. A background survey of the
migrations, settlement and emergence of precolonial societies will be
provided. The underlying cultural unities of the precolonial societies
will be sketched, as well as the precapitalist socioeconomic formations.
The course will then cover: Kenya in the 19th century; the British
conquest of Kenya; the colonial state and its contradictions; the
colonial economy; educational and religious changes; social and cultural
changes; the traditions of resistance and collaboration; the invention
of tribes; clan, district and territorial politics; Mau Mau, decolon-
ization and constitutional changes; the post colonial state; Kenyan
societies towards the end of the 20th century.
001 TH 02:30PM-05:30PM FL*528 Odhiambo, Atieno
HIST 427 HISTORY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, 19 Credits 3.00 Spring 97
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An examination of the modern Civil Rights movement, focusing on the
goals and strategies of the major spokespersons and leaders, as well as
the achievements of the campaign. To what extent was there success? To
what extent was there failure? Is there an "unfinished" agenda that
needs to be completed?
001 F 01:00PM-04:00PM SH*207B Cox, Edward
HIST 450 CHINESE CULTURE Credits 3.00 Spring 97
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An enriched version of Hist 250. Students may not receive credit for
both Hist 250 and 450.
001 TTH 01:00PM-02:20PM RH*110 Smith, Richard
HIST 451 PHILOSOPHIES AND THEOLOGIES OF HISTORY Credits 3.00 Spring 97
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Modern thought on the meaning and ultimate direction of history; roots
in eschatology, Augustine, flowering in progress and historicism--e.g.,
Vico, Lessing, Hegel, Ranke, Burckhardt, Nietzsche, Harnack, Troeltsch,
Meinecke, Spengler, Heidegger, Butterfield, Dawson, Schweitzer, Jaspers,
Toynbee.
Also offered as Reli 451.
001 M 02:00PM-05:00PM FL*524 Stroup, John
HIST 459 TOPICS IN MODERN GERMANY Credits 3.00 Spring 97
This seminar will focus on selected topics in the history of Germany.
Topics change from year to year. Fall, 1996: The German Democratic
Republic, 1945-1990. The seminar this year will focus on the origins of
the GDR, its political culture, social life and economic structures and
its collapse in 1989-1990.
001 M 02:00PM-05:00PM FL*517 Caldwell, Peter
HIST 464 FOREIGN POLICY OF NIXON & KISSINGER Credits 3.00 Spring 97
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This course will be a seminar in which students will write three short
research papers on foreign policy crises since 1945.
001 W 02:00PM-05:00PM FL*525 Matusow, Allen
HIST 469 U.S.-LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS Credits 3.00 Spring 97
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Enriched version of Hist 269. Students may not receive credit for both
Hist 269 and Hist 469.
001 TTH 02:30PM-03:50PM SH*305 Seed, Patricia
HIST 490 NEVER AGAIN? THE WARS OF YUGOSLAV SUCCES Credits 3.00 Spring 97
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This experimental upper division seminar will investigate the vast
numbers of ethical, historical, and policy issues involved in the
Yugoslav wars of the past five years. Students will work individually
and in groups using a variety of media, including the internet, video
film, CD's, and traditional reading material. The course will meet in
the Symonds classroom. There are no academic prerequisities, but
students must have a computer account (ruf or owlnet) and need to be
minimally competent in Microsoft Word, use of the internet, and at least
one graphics package.
001 W 02:00PM-05:00PM FL*517 Stokes, Gale
HIST 502 MASTER'S HISTORICAL RESEARCH Credits 1.00 Spring 97
See Hist 501.
001 TBA TBA TBA
HIST 504 GRADUATE TOPICS Credits 2.00 Spring 97
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HIST 512 DIRECTED READ-AMERICAN HIST I Credits 4.00 Spring 97
For graduate students only.
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HIST 514 DIRECTED READ AMERICAN HIST II Credits 4.00 Spring 97
For graduate students only.
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HIST 518 DIRECTED READ-SCIENCE & TECH Credits 4.00 Spring 97
For graduate students only.
001 TBA TBA TBA
HIST 522 DIRECTED READ.MEDIEVAL HISTORY Credits 4.00 Spring 97
For graduate students only.
001 TBA TBA TBA
HIST 526 DIRECTED READ AFRICAN HISTORY Credits 4.00 Spring 97
For graduate students only.
001 TBA TBA Odhiambo, Atieno
HIST 528 DIRECTED READ.NON-WESTERN HIST Credits 4.00 Spring 97
For graduate students only.
001 TBA TBA TBA
HIST 530 DIR.READ.MOD.EUROPEAN HIST I Credits 4.00 Spring 97
For graduate students only.
001 TBA TBA TBA
HIST 532 DIR.READ.MOD.EUROPEAN HIST II Credits 4.00 Spring 97
For graduate students only.
001 TBA TBA TBA
HIST 546 AN AGE OF EXTREMES: THE THEORY & PRACTIC Credits 4.00 Spring 97
When the history of the twentieth century is written, the outstanding
feature will be - sadly - the emergence of ideological regimes with an
unprecedented capacity for oppressing and/or eliminating vast numbers of
persons. The course will examine the historical and political
conditions that allowed such regimes to take root, with special
attention to conflicts of historical interpretation that have arisen
over their similarities and differences. After an introductory survey
of twentieth century political landscape, we will concentrate on the
theory and practice of Bolshevism, Fascism and National Socialism.
Enrollment is limited to 12.
001 W 02:00PM-05:00PM PL*118 Wolin, Richard
HIST 565 SEMINAR IN EARLY AMERICA Credits 4.00 Spring 97
For graduate students only. Readings and discussions of major works on
the English colonies of North America as well as redings on topics of
particular inerest to individual students.
Limited enrollment.
001 M 02:00PM-05:00PM FL*525 Gruber, Ira
HIST 582 ISSUES IN MODERN BRITISH HIST Credits 4.00 Spring 97
Open to all graduate students. Required of those who intend to do a
field in British history.
001 TH 02:30PM-05:30PM FL*525 Wiener, Martin
HIST 583 GRAD SEM IN SOUTHERN HISTORY Credits 4.00 Spring 97
Religion and slavery in the Old South.
001 T 02:30PM-05:30PM FL*525 Boles, John
HIST 586 U.S. CONST & LEGAL HISTORY Credits 4.00 Spring 97
Significant constitutional and legal original research questions
stressing civil liberties, criminal law, civil-military relations, race
relations, and urban problems.
001 TBA TBA Hyman, Harold
HIST 591 GRADUATE READING Credits 1.00 Spring 97
Graduate reading in conjunction with another course.
001 TBA TBA TBA
HIST 592 GRADUATE READING Credits 1.00 Spring 97
See Hist 591.
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HIST 593 GRADUATE READING Credits 1.00 Spring 97
See Hist 591.
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HIST 800 PH.D RESEARCH Credits 3.00 Spring 97
Doctoral dissertation.
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