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HIST 102 EUROPE'S 500 YEARS 1815-PRES Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Continuation of Hist 101. May take courses separately. Recommended for Freshmen and Sophomores. Offered with additional work as Hist 302. 001 MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM RH*110 Zammito, John *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 152 FRESHMAN SEMINAR IN ANCIENT HISTORY Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II The Hero and his Companion from Gilgamesh to Sam Spade. How does presentation of heroic action illustrate the basic values of a society? Through consideration as historical sources of several ancient texts, modern mystery stories, and two "western" movies, we will see the development of a style of community service that links heroism with alienation. The extent to which women participate will be traced. Limited enrollment to 15. Permission of instructor required. 001 W 07:00PM-10:00PM FL*525 Maas, Michael *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 207 GREEK CIVILIZATION: AN INTRODUCTION Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I Course will present an introduction to drama and historiography of classical Greece. Many of the plays of the great tragedians Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides and by the comic genius Aritophanes are put on stage until today and have a deep influence on our modern clulture. Herodotus and Thucydides present two different models of writing history that are still valid. Reading mainly from primary sources. Also offered as CLAS 207 and HUMA 109. 001 TTH 10:50AM-12:05PM FL*525 Brockmann, Christian *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 212 AMERICAN THOUGHT & SOCIETY II Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Continuation of Hist 211. Includes 19th and 20th-century American history. May take Hist 211 and 212 separately. Offered with additional work as Hist 312. 001 TTH 09:25AM-10:40AM FL*412 Haskell, Thomas *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 214 CARIBBEAN NATION BUILDING Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II This course traces the slow but gradual process through which state formation occurred in the Caribbean from the late 18th-century to the present. It examines popular responses to imperial and state power and it concentrates on the movement toward political independence in the mid-20th-century. Offered with additional work as Hist 314. 001 MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM GRB*211W Cox, Edward *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 222 JAPANESE HISTORY II: MODERN JAPAN Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II 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 TTH 09:25AM-10:40AM Thal, Sarah *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 232 THE MAKING OF MODERN AFRICA Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Survey of the transformation of Africa from the late 19th-century to the present. Includes Europe and Africa in the 19t-cenury (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 roots of hunger and povety), social change in the 20th-century (e.g., ethnic identity, emergence of elites, and changes in cultural policies regarding language, leisure, roles of women, religion, law and order, medicine and healing, and urbanization), political development (e.g., ethnic unions, political parties, and decolonization), and Africa since independence. 001 TTH 10:50AM-12:05PM SH*309 Odhiambo, Atieno *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 250 TRADITIONAL CHINESE CULTURE Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Introduction to the language, philosophy, religion, art, literature, and social customs of China. Offered with additional work as Hist 450. 001 TTH 02:30PM-03:50PM RH*110 Smith, Richard *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 262 MODERN BRIT HISTORY,1830-2000 Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Exploration of Britain's takeoff into the industrial revolution, its adaptation to the flourishing of the empire, and its 20th-century geopolitical and economic decline. Includes the use of novels, biographies, and other materials to examine these transformations. Offered with additional work as Hist 362. 001 TTH 09:25AM-10:40AM FL*525 Wiener, Martin *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 274 MEDIEVAL & MODERN JEWISH HISTORY, 1500-1 Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Continuation of Hist 273/373. 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 MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM FL*528 Haverkamp, Eva *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 278 THE ARAB WORLD IN THE 20TH CENTURY 1914 Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II This course surveys the history and culture of the Arab world as it has developed from World War I 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 Palestin, the status of women and the rise of modern Islamic politics. Offered with additional work as Hist 378. 001 MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM FL*414 Makdisi, Ussama *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 291 MODERN EUROPEAN CULTURAL HISTORY Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II This survey of the main developments in modern European cultural history combines reverence with irreverence. We will focus on the intellectual, literary, and artistic dimensions of such cultual movements as the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Bohemianism, Surrealism, Modernism, and the film age. We will frequently visit Houston museums and art installations. 001 W 02:00PM-05:00PM RH*111 Wolin, Richard *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 298 AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY II Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Continuation of Hist 297. From the Reconstruction Era to the late twentieth-century. The course will examine the development of public and privte law; property rights and contract obligations; civil, criminal and adminstrative procedures; and doctrines of procedural and substantive rights and liberties. Among the central concern in this course will be the assertion, denial, or protection of minority rights through legal processes and the continual conflict between liberal and conservative constituationlism. Hist 297/397 is not a prerequisite. Offered with additional work as Hist 398. 001 MWF 01:00PM-01:50PM PL*118 Wilson, Steve *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 300 INDEPENDENT STUDIES Credits 1.00 Spring 2000 Independent study under the supervision of a history faculty member. Prereq- permission of instructor. 001 TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 302 EUROPE'S 500 YEARS 1815-PRES Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * 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 Zammito, John *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 304 UNDERGRAD INDEPENDENT READING Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 Independent reading under the supervision of a faculty member. Open to a limited number of advanced students with special permission. 001 TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 308 THE WORLD OF LATE ANTIQUITY Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Study of the social, religious, and political history of the Roman world from Diocletian to the rise of Islam, with emphasis on the breaking of the unity of the Mediterranean world and the formation of Byzantine society in the Greek East. 001 TTH 01:00PM-02:20PM RH*109 Maas, Michael *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 312 AMERICAN THOUGHT & SOCIETY II Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II An enriched version of Hist 212. Students may not receive credit for both Hist 212 and 312. 001 TTH 09:25AM-10:40AM FL*412 Haskell, Thomas *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 314 CARIBBEAN NATION BUILDING Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 Enriched version of Hist 214. May not receive credit for both Hist 214 and 314. 001 MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM GRB*211W Cox, Edward *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 319 CIVIL WAR & POST-EMANCIPATION AMERICA Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II This undergraduate lecture course will cover the period 1840 to "roughly" 1900. We will focus on the causes of the Civil War, the course of the war itself, its consequences, and its continuing relevance for American life. At the heart of our inquiry will be questions of freedom and sovereignty. 001 MWF 01:00PM-01:50PM SH*305 Dailey, Jane *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 323 MEDIEVAL SLAVERY IN CROSS-CULTURAL PERSP Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 Examination of the social category of the unfree, including captives, slaves, and serfs as well as eunuchs, concubines, and military slaves in European and Islamic societies. We will also trace the evolution of the justifications of slavery and consider the factors favoring a growing association of slavery with race. 001 M 02:00PM-05:00PM FL*414 Blumenthal, Debra *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 329 TOPIC IN THE 1ST EURO EXPANSION, 1492-1 Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 This will be a course covering the comparative history of the English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch expansion into the New World, Africa, and Asia. Topics will include the changing nature of empire, and the status of the principal rationales for colonization including "just war" and conversion. 001 TH 02:30PM-05:30PM RH*319 Seed, Patricia *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 340 VICTORIAN INTELLECTUALS Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Study of the upheaval in late 19th-century social thought and culture caused in part by Darwin's theory of evolution, with emphasis on American readings, using English and continental writers for comparsion. May include Spencer, Veblen, Henry Adams, William James, Dewey, Matthew Arnold, and Nietzsche. 001 TH 02:30PM-05:30PM Haskell, Thomas *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 342 MODERN CHINA Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Continuation of HIST 341. Includes China's revolutionary transformation in the 19th-and 20th-centuries, from the Qing dynasty to the People's Republic. HIST 431 is not a prereq for HIST 342. 001 TTH 01:00PM-02:20PM SH*207B Smith, Richard *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 345 EARLY MODERN EUROPE:HUMANISM & EXPANSION Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Exploration of major cultural developments in Western Europe from the rise of Italian humanism in the 14th-century to European conquest and expansion in the 16th-century. 001 TTH 10:50AM-12:05PM FL*524 Quillen, Carol *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 349 WOMEN & GENDER IN 19TH CENTURY EUROPE Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Examination of the political and cultural discussions concerning the so-called "Woman Question" in 19th-century Europe. Includes the role of public and private legal rights in republicanism and the early feminist movement, the reformulation of notions of gender quality in the context of 19th-century socialist movements and the challenges to gender identity posed by cultural modernism at the end of the century. Also offered as WGST 420. 001 MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM FL*524 Caldwell, Peter *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 351 AMERICA SINCE 1945 Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Survey of major economic, social and political developments in the United States since 1945. Limited enrollment to 80. 001 TTH 10:40AM-12:05PM Matusow, Allen *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 362 MODERN BRIT HISTORY,1830-2000 Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II An enriched version of Hist 262. Students may not receive credit for both Hist 262 and Hist 362. 001 TTH 09:25AM-10:40AM FL*525 Wiener, Martin *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 366 HISTORY OF MODERN BRAZIL Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Latin America's largest and most economically powerful nation, Brazil boasts a history that is quite distinct from the histories of its Spanish American neighbors. This lecture and discussion course will examine 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. We will pay close attention to Brazil's legacy as the world's largest slave holding society in the nineteenth century, its struggle to conquer its huge territory, and the interaction of those factors in shaping its national identity. 001 MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM FL*525 Wolfe, Joel *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 370 EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY: BACON TO Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II 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 MWF 01:00PM-01:50PM PL*210 Zammito, John *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 372 THE MAKING OF MODERN FRANCE, 1815-1995 Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * 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 Lorcin, Patricia *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 374 MEDIEVAL & MODERN JEWISH HISTORY,1500-1 Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Continuation of Hist 373. Enriched version of Hist 274. May not receive credit for both Hist 274 and 374. 001 MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM FL*528 Haverkamp, Eva *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 378 THE ARAB WORLD IN THE 20TH CENTURY, 191 Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Enriched version of Hist 278. May not receive credit for both Hist 278 and 378. 001 MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM FL*414 Makdisi, Ussama *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 382 CLASSICAL ISLAMIC CULTURE Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II An introduction to the culture and religion of the Islamic world from the 9th-through the 14th-centuries. Topics include Islamic law and theology, philosophy, ritual, Islamic science and medicine, classical Arabic literature, the impact of Arabo-Islamic culture on Jewish and Christian cultures of the Islamic world. 001 MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM FL*528 Sanders, Paula *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 398 AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY II Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II An enriched version of Hist 298. Students may not receive credit for both Hist 298 and 398. 001 MWF 01:00PM-01:50PM PL*118 Wilson, Steve *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 404 HONORS THESIS Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 Continuation of Hist 403, which is prerequisite for enrollment. Completion of this course is required to obtain credit for Hist 403. 001 TBA TBA Zammito, John *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 410 KENYA IN MODERN HISTORY Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Study of Kenya's transformation from tribal societies to modern state. Includes a survey of migrations and settlement, the emergence of precolonial societies, their underlying cultural unities, and precapitalist socioeconomic 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 postcolonial state, and Kenya toward the end of the 20th century. 001 TH 02:30PM-05:30PM FL*528 Odhiambo, Atieno *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 415 THE RISE & FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II How the largest empire in world history came into existence, the impact it had on people and states world wide, 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. Pre-req: some background in either British history or the history of one of the areas impacted by the British desirable. 001 TH 02:30PM-05:30PM FL*525 Wiener, Martin *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 416 BLACKS IN RONALD REAGAN'S AMERICA Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II This is still Ronald Reagan's America--era of individualism and conservatism quite at odds with the America of Martin Luther King, Jr. In this reading- and writing-intensive seminar, students will examine American conservatism in the wake of the civil rights movement and explore contemporary African American history. Limited enrollment. 001 T 02:30PM-05:30PM FL*528 Byrd, Alexander *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 422 JAPANESE HISTORY II: MODERN JAPAN Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Enriched version of Hist 222. May not receive credit for both Hist 222 and 422. 001 TTH 09:25AM-10:40AM FL*524 Thal, Sarah *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 425 COLONIAL/POSTCOLONIAL DISCOURSE THEORY Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II This seminar will focus on how Europeans and Americans have defined colonized peoples as subject of knowledge from the 16th-through the late 20th-century. Themes vary. We will cover aboriginal peoples and colonial theory (1999) and global capitalism as postcolonail therory (2000). Prereq- a Third World history course, a course in literary or anthroplogical theroy, or experience abroad. Offered with additonal work as Hist 524. 001 F 01:00PM-04:00PM FL*525 Seed, Patricia *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 436 SEM:HISTORY OF MIDDLE EAST: AMERICA & TH Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Exploration of American political, cultural, and religious involvement in the Middle East. Includes how Americans represented themselves, how these representations have changed over time, how Americans prepresented the East, and how local inhabitants perceived America. Finally, how do these reperesentations relate to the Ottoman empire, to World War I, and to the Arab-Israeli conflict? Offered with additional work as Hist 536 001 M 02:00PM-05:00PM RH*111 Makdisi, Ussama *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 447 "REMEMBER":HISTORICAL CONSCI. &HIST'GRAP Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II A look at the development of Jewish historiography from its biblical foundations till the establishment of academic institutions for Jewish historiography in modern times and today, with emphasis on the Middle Ages and the 19th and 20th centuries. Lecture and discussion of primary (in translation) and secondary sources. 001 W 02:00PM-05:00PM FL*414 Haverkamp, Eva *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 448 CREATING MODERN JAPAN: THE MEIJI RESTORA Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II The Meiji Restoration is often considered the founding event of modern Japan, similar in stature to the French and American Revolutions. This seminar examines the political, social, and cultural creation of modern Japan by investigating why the Meiji Restoration occurred and how the changes of the late nineteenth-century shaped modern Japan. Limited enrollment to 12. 001 T 02:30PM-05:30PM FL*525 Thal, Sarah *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 450 TRADITIONAL CHINESE CULTURE Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II An enriched version of Hist 250. Students may not receive credit for both Hist 250 and 450. 001 TTH 02:30PM-03:50PM RH*110 Smith, Richard *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 451 PHILOSOPHIES & THEOLOGIES OF HISTORY Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * 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 02:30PM-05:30PM FL*524 Stroup, John *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 457 IMAGES OF EUROPE:IDENTITY & CULTURE Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Through the media of film, literature and historical criticism, this course will present the major themes of identity that have contributed to the creation of modern Europe, namely class, nation and politics. Students will be introduced to key developments and events in the past 150 years relevant to this process. The films have ben especially selected to demonstrate the different ways in which the media can shape our ideas of the past by representing them in the light of their own political or cultural agendas. 001 W 02:00PM-05:00PM TBA Lorcin, Patricia *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 459 TOPICS IN MODERN GERMANY Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 This course will focus on selected topics in the history of Germany. Topics change from year to year. Spring 2000: The social, political, and cultural histroy of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Limited enrollment to 15. 001 W 02:00PM-05:00PM Caldwell, Peter *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 466 AMERICAN REV. 1754-1789 Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Study of the origins and implications of the American Revolution, emphasizing constitutional, social, and political developments. 001 W 02:00PM-05:00PM FL*528 Gruber, Ira *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 473 MYTHS OF IDENTITY IN MODERN NATIONS Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II The identity of the nation is the most sensitive issue a state can face; myth communicates common meaning where none seems to exist. The American Pledge of Allegiance simultaneously conveys a myth, provides an identity, unites the nation, and raises questions. What does it mean for the nation to be "one" and "indivisible?" Who are the "all" referred to in the pledge? General readings in the course offer definitions for the nation and its key elements. Four case studies (France,Germany, Israel, and the U.S.) then examine various domestic struggles to shape the nation. 001 T 02:30PM-05:30PM FL*524 Story, William *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 485 WOMEN AND GENDER IN RENAISSANCE ITALY Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II In recent years scholars have asked how gender affects our notions of the past. Was there a Renaissance for women? How did gender influence the roles of women and men in Renaissance society? This course will explore these and other questions through readings and discussion of Renaissance and modern sources. 001 F 02:00PM-05:00PM SH*460 Brown, Judith *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 496 A TURBULENT TIME: THE WORLD OF THE HAITI Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II This seminar examins the impact of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) on the Americas in the late 18th- and early 19th-centuries. This was the only time an enslaved people had successfully seized their freedom and created and independent state. Throughout the Americas, the event was both a warning to slaveholders and an inspiration to slaves. Limited enrollment. 001 M 02:00PM-05:00PM FL*525 Cox, Edward *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 502 MASTER'S HISTORICAL RESEARCH Credits 1.00 Spring 2000 See Hist 501. 001 TBA TBA TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 504 GRADUATE TOPICS Credits 2.00 Spring 2000 001 TBA TBA TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 512 DIRECTED READ-AMERICAN HIST I Credits 4.00 Spring 2000 For graduate students only. 001 TBA TBA TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 514 DIRECTED READ AMERICAN HIST II Credits 4.00 Spring 2000 For graduate students only. 001 TBA TBA TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 516 DIRECTED READINGS IN MILITARY HISTORY Credits 4.00 Spring 2000 001 TBA TBA Gruber, Ira *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 518 DIRECTED READ-SCIENCE & TECH Credits 4.00 Spring 2000 For graduate students only. 001 TBA TBA Van Helden, Albert *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 522 DIRECTED READ.MEDIEVAL HISTORY Credits 4.00 Spring 2000 For graduate students only. 001 TBA TBA TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 524 COLONIAL/POSTCOLONIAL DISCOURSE THEORY Credits 4.00 Spring 2000 Graduate version of Hist 425, Students may not receive credit for both Hist 425 and 524. 001 F 01:00PM-04:00PM FL*525 Seed, Patricia *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 526 DIRECTED READ AFRICAN HISTORY Credits 4.00 Spring 2000 For graduate students only. 001 TBA TBA Odhiambo, Atieno *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 528 DIRECTED READ.NON-WESTERN HIST Credits 4.00 Spring 2000 For graduate students only. 001 TBA TBA TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 530 DIR.READ.MOD.EUROPEAN HIST I Credits 4.00 Spring 2000 For graduate students only. 001 TBA TBA TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 532 DIR.READ.MOD.EUROPEAN HIST II Credits 4.00 Spring 2000 For graduate students only. 001 TBA TBA TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 536 SEM IN THE HIST OF THE MIDDLE EAST:AMERI Credits 4.00 Spring 2000 Graduate version of the Hist 436. Students may not receive credit for both Hist 436 and 536. 001 M 02:00PM-05:00PM RH*111 Makdisi, Ussama *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 542 RACE,NATION & IDENTITY Credits 4.00 Spring 2000 Focusing on France but using a comparative approach this research seminar will examine the leading themes and figures in the emergence of racial thought in the 19th century and its development in the 20th. The relationship between race, nation, and identity will be among the salient features of the course. 001 T 07:00PM-10:00PM FL*525 Lorcin, Patricia *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 554 TOPICS IN LATE MEDIEVAL SPANISH HISTORY Credits 4.00 Spring 2000 This course examines the history of Iberia from the onset of the Black Death to the conquest of Granada/expulsion of the Jews. We will focus on the political crises of the period and emphasize how these crises affected relations between Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Prereq- Reading knowledge of Spanish, Catalan, Hebrew, or Latin. 001 TBA TBA Nirenberg, David *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 565 EARLY AMERICA, 1607-1800 Credits 4.00 Spring 2000 Study of major works on the English colonies of North America, as well as topics of particular interest to individual students. 001 M 02:00PM-05:00PM FL*528 Gruber, Ira *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 568 EMANCIPATION & TRANSITION TO FREEDOM/POS Credits 4.00 Spring 2000 Reading and research seminar focusing on the process and experience of emancipation during and after the American Civil War, the transition to a southern economy based on free labor ideals, and the reconfiguration of politics after the enfranchisement of African American men. We will consider traditional historical sources pertaining to the reconstruction of social, economic, and political life after the abolition of slavery, and issues of identity formation and definition (e.g., race, gender, class, partisanship) in postwar southern literature. Open to advanced undergraduates with permission of the instructor. 001 W 02:00PM-05:00PM FL*525 Dailey, Jane *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 578 AFTER P0STMODERNISM Credits 4.00 Spring 2000 Why has postmodernism failed--run aground, as it were, on its own superficiality? What are the new, 'positive" intellectual paradigms that have emerged in its wake? After surveying the reasons postmodernism proved unable to respond to the posttotalitarian caesura of 1989, we will examine the renewal of democratic thought. Among the thinkers we will examine will be Richard Rorty, Jurgen Habermas, Charles Taylor and Jean Elshtain. 001 M 06:00PM-10:00PM FL*525 Wolin, Richard *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 586 U.S. CONST & LEGAL HISTORY Credits 4.00 Spring 2000 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 *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 591 GRADUATE READING Credits 1.00 Spring 2000 Graduate reading in conjunction with another course. 001 TBA TBA TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 592 GRADUATE READING Credits 1.00 Spring 2000 See Hist 591. 001 TBA TBA TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 593 GRADUATE READING Credits 1.00 Spring 2000 See Hist 591. 001 TBA TBA TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 596 A TURBULENT TIME:THE WORLD OF THE HAITIA Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 001 M 02:00PM-05:00PM FL*525 Cox, Edward *CURRENT ENR: 0 HIST 800 PH.D RESEARCH Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 Doctoral dissertation. 001 TBA TBA TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0
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