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Course Descriptions
History (HIST)
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Cardinal Students.
HIST 101: World Civilization to 1700
3
Credits
Traces the outlines of major western civilizations from the Mesopotamian and Egyptian Kingdoms to the European Renaissance, with an emphasis on the development of Western political, cultural, social and economic tradition. Discussion sections of each class also develop fundamental skills for the study of history at university level, including analysis of maps and frequent writing assignments. Part I (to 1500): Introduction to establishing elements of Western Civilization and its evolution; formation of varying ancient civilizations in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Israel, and Rome; the rise of Germanic Kingdoms after the fall of the Roman Empire; foundations of Western medieval church and state; early Islam and its contacts with the West; medieval society, economy and culture; the ¿crisis of feudalism¿ and the origins of capitalism; Renaissance and the early-modern European state and society.
HIST 102: World Civilizations Since 1700
3
Credits
Continues from 101: Part II (since 1700): Explores the changing world economy from the rise of Industrialism; the Enlightenment; the American and French Revolutions; the dominant forces of liberalism, nationalism, and imperialism in the nineteenth century; the movements of democracy, communism, and fascism in the twentieth century; breakthroughs in science; the two World Wars; decolonization; and contemporary issues.
HIST 123: Medieval History
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 177: Freshmen Seminar:
3
Credits
The course uses a variety of documents and approaches to explore the cultural landscape of the "heart of the British empire" during the Victorian period.
HIST 205: Ancient Mediterranean Up To Julius Caesar
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 206: Caesar to 650
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 211: The Medieval World: Culture, War, Religion in the Middle Ages
3
Credits
The course introduces students to some of the primary sources describing both major events and the daily life in medieval Europe. Lectures, discussions and slide presentations will alternate.
HIST 215: Long-Haired Kings and Barbarians
3
Credits
From the Roman Empire to the medieval kingdoms of western Europe, an introduction emphasizing both secular and ecclesiastical culture, politics and economics of the period 300 A.D. to 1150.
HIST 216: Beyond the 'Fall' of Rome
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 216A: Post Roman Britain: Settlements, Raids, and Conquests (Fifth to Twelfth Centuries)
3
Credits
The course will assess how a post-Roman kingdom was formed, defined, and defended. Britain will be considered as a venue of a "barbarian" settlement, and then we shall trace the development of the various Anglo-Saxon polities, culminating in the achievement of unity in the face of Viking and Danish challenges. We shall take account of the role of the Christian church in that unification, together with the development of legal codification and practice. The myth of English exceptionalism will be deconstructed, the kingdom's relations with other parts of Europe being more fully explored; and the "Norman Conquest" will be viewed, therefor, in that same context.
The course may serve as a partial preparation for ENG 340 "Old English Literature" and ENG 341 "The World of the Anglo-Saxons."
HIST 221: Early Modern Europe 1450-1750
3
Credits
A survey of European history from the Renaissance and the age of discovery to the Enlightenment. Topics include the Reformation, religious wars and the Counter-Reformation; the rise of centralized monarchies; popular culture and the so-called witch craze; and the development of a capitalist economy and the emergence of a consumer society.
HIST 221A: Early Modern Europe and the World
3
Credits
This course begins in the late Middle Ages and ends in the modern world. Our starting point will be 1453, a year that marked the fall of Constantinople, the end of the Hundred Years¿ War, and the commencement of the printing of the Gutenberg Bible, and we will finish in 1815, when the Congress of Vienna reassembled Europe after the rampages of Napoleon and when Brazil ceased to be a colony, a key moment in the burgeoning Latin American independence movement. Our focus will be on early modern Europe and its relationship to the rest of the world, and topics covered will include the Renaissance and Reformation, global trade patterns, the expansion of Europe, the military revolution and the wars of religion, the rise of the nation-state, the development of republicanism and absolutism, the scientific revolution, the Enlightenment, and the multiple revolutions that close out our time period (English, American, French, and Haitian). The class will also provide an introduction to basic historical skills.
HIST 222: Europe: 1720-1871
3
Credits
History of Europe from the Enlightenment to the establishment of modern nation states. Topics include the intellectual ferment of the Enlightenment, Romanticism, the French and early Industrial Revolutions, Napoleonic wars, struggles of conservatism with liberalism and new nationalism, the Revolution of 1848-49, Darwinian theory, the Berlin school, and the unifications of Italy and Germany.
HIST 223: Europe: 1848-1918
3
Credits
Examines the Revolutions of 1848, the formation of modern nation states in Germany and Italy, the spread of Darwinian thought, the growth of industry and democracy, the impact of the new imperialism, the belle epoque in literature, and the origins and conduct of World War I, including its impact on Imperial Russia, Austria, and Germany.
HIST 230: Non-Western World: 1500 - 1900
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 231: World in the 20th Century
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 235: Medieval Civilization
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 235B: Medieval Civilization II
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 236A: The World of the Crusades
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 240A: Sciences, Medicine and Culture 1450 - 1783
3
Credits
This course examines in primary and secondary texts fundamental developments in the natural sciences, medicine, and the mathematics sine 1730. These are set within historical context and the larger culture, including the responses of religion. Among the topics are Science and the Enlightenment, the Chemical Revolution, Darwinian Evolution, Relativity, Freudian Psychoanalysis, and the Age of the Universe. The principal figures include Euler, Lavoisier, Darwin, Planck, Einstein, Freud, and Curie. The course also considers the rise of modern research universities and new journals and instrumentation.
HIST 240B: Science, Medicine, and Culture Since 1730
3
Credits
This course examines in primary and secondary texts fundamental developments in the natural sciences, medicine, and mathematics since 1730. These are set within their historical context and the larger culture, including the responses of religion. Among the topics are Science and Enlightenment, the Chemical Revolution, Darwinian Evolution, Relativity, Freudian Psychoanalysis, and the Age of the Universe. The principal figures include Euler, Lavoisier, Darwin, Planck Einstein, Freud, and Curie. The course also considers the rise of modern research universities and new journals and instrumentation.
HIST 245A: Early Modern Europe
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 245B: Early Modern World II
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 257: American History Survey I
3
Credits
Employs lectures as well as reading and analysis of relevant primary-source documents for topics under consideration. To 1877.
HIST 258: American History Survey II
3
Credits
Continues from 257. From the close of the Civil War to the end of the Vietnam Era.
HIST 280: The United States in the Nineteenth Century
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 280B: The United States in the 20th Century
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 281: Colonial Latin America
3
Credits
Part I: Before independence. European and Indian background; conquest; religious, political, economic, and social structures; eighteenth-century reforms; independence movements.
HIST 282: Modern Latin America
3
Credits
Part II: Since independence. Nature of political, economic, and social problems, 1820-1965; histories of Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil.
HIST 283: Latinos in America: 1848-1990
3
Credits
Explores the political, cultural, social, and economic history of Latino communities in the United States from the end of the Mexican-American War to the present. Topics include historical roots of international migration; the comparative history of the communities of Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban origin in the United States; cultural and religious traditions of Latino communities; racial and class discrimination; migrant agricultural labor in America; and the political role of Latino and Hispanic communities in modern American political life. Readings will include works of history as well as primary sources, especially newspapers, letters, legislation, memoirs, novels, and films.
HIST 300: Age of Discovery: Iberian World
3
Credits
Examines the motives and conduct of Spanish, Portuguese, and English explorers, as well as key conquests in the New World and Asia during the sixteenth century. Key figures include Columbus, de Gama, Magellan, Sir Francis Drake, Hernan Cortes, Francisco Pizarro, and Alfonso De Albuquerque.
HIST 301A: Medieval Kingship
3
Credits
Despite the modern belief in the universal efficacy of democracy, a strong case could be made that0looking at the world over the entire course of recorded history-a much more "natural" form of government is monarchy. This course will examine the phenomenon of Western medieval monarchy and, specifically, the construction of kingship in that tradition, focusing not only on medieval ideas about kings, but also on practical aspects of rulership in the premodern age. In additional to background discussions of the anthropology of kingship, and of Roman, Biblical, and Germanic ideas about kings, the main topics of discussions will include: kings and conversion, Carolingian kingship, kings as patrons of the arts and learning, feudal monarchy, sacral kingship, kings as lawgivers and dispensers of justice, kings as conquerors, kings as defenders of the church, household and state government, and medieval queenship. Format: Lecture and discussion. Evaluation: midterm, final and two analytical papers.
HIST 302: Pilgramages, Crusaders and Explorers
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 302A: Europe in the Twelfth Century
3
Credits
The twelfth century in Western Europe saw the birth of Gothic architecture, the strengthening of feudal monarchies and the spread of new forms of Benedictine monasticism, among many other changes. This course will explore developments in Western European politics, economics, art, literature, and religion during the twlfth century. We will consider such issues as the growth of towns, the transformation of financial and judicial administration, and the expansion of papal power. Readings will emphasize primary sources in translation, including chivalric romance, peasant complaints about lordly violence, and a history of the murder of a count. The course will offer students a view into the creativity and ferment of this pivotal period of medieval history.
HIST 303: The Legacy of Antiquity in the Early Middle Ages
3
Credits
The course will identify characteristics of early western medieval society, and examine the extent to which they were based upon similar characteristics of the late Roman West. We shall be concerned, in other words, with the shift from empire to kingdom, 400-700, and with the strength and persistence of Roman ideals in a post-Roman world. Characteristics involved will include kinship, government, and territorial definition; secular and ecclesiastical law, episcipacy, monasticism and piety; and literary forms and the cultural and institutional resources upon which they depended.
HIST 304: Cultural History of Food in the Middle Ages
3
Credits
This course examines the many complex relationships existing between medieval people and food. As daily nourishment, food connected Europeans to their physical environment. We will examine the agricultural technologies and the forms of social organization that sustained European expansion throughout the High, Middle Ages. Food was also a symbol, whose meaning - central to Christianity - was a subject of profound and sometimes agonizing reflection and practices among monks, nuns, mystics and medieval doctors. Finally, the feast was crucial to medieval kings' efforts to maintain control over their nobles. The festive meal created affinity, delineated precedence, and imposed cultural norms. In short, by focusing on the relationship between food and the body we will explore medieval ideas and practices regarding salvation, gender, political order, social structure, and economic activity.
HIST 305: History of the Ancient Mediterranean
3
Credits
Surveys the ancient Mediterranean world from the eighth through first centuries B.C. Discusses the history of Greece, Rome, Carthage, and neighboring regions, including Persia, Israel, Egypt, and the Celtic lands. Analyzes the spread of Greek culture and the growth of the Roman Empire in a Mediterranean context. Focuses on economic, social, and political themes. Readings consist of primary and secondary sources, with emphasis on critical interpretation.
HIST 306: Women and Gender in the Middle Ages, 500-1500
3
Credits
Surveys women's roles in medieval society and contributions to it from the early medieval period until the Reformation. Approaches the topic from two directions: examines women's own writings in order to recover their voices, while also reading texts written about women which shaped their experience in the Middle Ages.
HIST 307: Comparative Colonial Systems, 1500-1800
3
Credits
Compares colonial structures of England, Portugal, France, and Spain, with particular emphasis on the relations of colonial societies to indigenous cultures and the impact of colonies on the development of the mother country.
HIST 308: History of Byzantium and the Creation of the Orthodox World, 500-1200
3
Credits
Traces the transformation of the Eastern Roman Empire into the Byzantine Empire and the influence of the Empire on the development of Medieval Balkan and Eastern European society. Begins with the final split with the beleaguered Western Roman Empire in 395 and ends with the fall of Constantinople to the Crusades in 1204.
HIST 309: The Rise of Islam
3
Credits
History 309 traces the development of the Muslim religion and its effects on the politics society of the Middle East between 600-1250 CE. It begins with the Late Roman context of Mohammed's mission and ends with the Mongol conquest of Baghdad. It provides an introduction to Medieval Islamic culture and society.
HIST 310: Religion & Society: Medieval Europe
3
Credits
This course examines the role of religion and its impact on western Europe from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries. Relying mainly on primary source materials, topics covered in the course include: Christianization of the Roman world, asceticism, monasticism, missionaries, Church and State struggles, the Crusades, heresy, the mendicant orders, and lay piety. We will also examine our theme through pivotal medieval figures such as Hildegard of Bingen, Abelard and Heloise, Francis of Assisi and Catherine of Siena.
HIST 311: The Crusades
3
Credits
Explores the origins and development of the Crusading movement; the role of warfare and violent action in Medieval Christian and Medieval Islamic ideas of piety; the impact of the eastern Crusades on the cultural and political development of western Europe, the Byzantine Empire, and the Near East; military history of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
HIST 312: Medieval Japan, Medieval Britain
3
Credits
During the first millennium CE, Japan and Britain were both island societies perched on the periphery of the larger, more sophisticated continental civilizations. Both evolved into distinctive nations, in part through selective interactions with continental influences; both evolved later into countries with economic and political influence at world level out of all proportion to their respective sizes. The course surveys the histories of both nations to c. 1500 A.D. and explores the similarities and differences between them. Particular themes include mythologies of national origin and identity; the influence of imported systems of writing, religion, and political models; comparative "feudalism" and warrior ethos; and peasant societies. Includes perspectives from literature, art, and religion.
HIST 312A: European Law from Antiquity to Napoleon
3
Credits
Law rules our lives, but there are few opportunities to study law as an undergraduate. This course will consider the major systems of law in European history--Roman law, feudal law, canon law, civil law, English common law--and will also pay attention to the changing understanding of natural law, the process of codification and the imposition of the Napoleonic Code on Europe, and the use of international law in the twentieth century. Law will be studied primarily through the lens of intellectual history, focusing on concepts, definitions, and principles, but the social and political implications of law will also be periodically addressed. Readings will include both excerpts from the great legal texts of the European past and scholarly overviews of legal history.
HIST 313: Carolingian Society and Culture
3
Credits
Frankish society from the time of the Merovingians to the court of Emperor Charles the Bald, the Viking invasions and the survival of the legend of Charlemagne. Focuses on politics as well as on religious and artistic developments.
HIST 313A: Charlemagne and the Birth of Europe
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 314: History of Ancient Mediterranean II
3
Credits
Continues from Part I: Hist 306. Concentrates on the Roman Empire and its breakup into successor states after the fifth century. Includes discussion of neighboring regions north of the Danube and east of the Euphrates. Focuses on economic, social, and political themes. Readings consist of primary and secondary sources, with emphasis on critical interpretation.
HIST 315: Crime in England, 1200-1800
3
Credits
Examines English crime in its legal, social, and cultural contexts, from the beginning of the English common law to the eighteenth century. Examines the origins of English law generally, and goes on to intensive study of the records of English criminal jurisdictions. Cultural and literary artifacts of crime, such as the Robin Hood and other outlaw legends and Elizabethan "underworld" literature and sensationalist pamphlets, also form part of the source material.
HIST 316: England After the Black Death
3
Credits
English history circa 1300-1500 witnessed major upheavals and transformations. The course begins by considering the Black Death (and, more generally, the role of disease in history) and covers this period topically, emphasizing political, social and economic, and cultural change and analysis of primary sources.
HIST 317: Medieval Italy
3
Credits
A survey of medieval Italy from the period of the barbarian invasions of the fifth century to the age of Dante. Examines the Lombard kingdom, Norman Sicily, Byzantine territories, city-states, the Regno, the patrimony of St. Peter and the papal state with special attention to regional particularity. Topics include Guelf/Ghibelline politics, the commune, long-distance trade, artistic patronage and heritage, families, education, religious life, and popular devotion.
HIST 318: Anglo-Saxon England
3
Credits
Romans, Britons, and Barbarians in the British Isles from Claudius (c. 40 A.D.) to Harold (Battle of Hastings, 1066 A.D.). Original documents, archaeological and art-historical evidence will be used in this exploration of early English society and culture.
HIST 320: Gilded Culture and Progressive Politics
3
Credits
The course will examine American responses in dramatic tensions. We will focus on powerful cultural events and political developments. These include the massive world's fairs in Philadelphia and Chicago, the Progressive reform of American politics through the invention of the political primary, the ballot referendum, and the use of sociological studies to sway judicial decisions. In particular, we will investigate the three major wars of the period (in Cuba, the Philippines, and Europe) that lead to vexing questions over the nation's role in international affairs and "nation building" abroad-- issues that resonate deeply with our current involvement in Iraq. In the process, we will watch the birth of modern American politics and culture and gain a better understanding of the conflicts and virtues that continue to define us as a nation.
HIST 321: Atlantic Revolution of the 17th & 18th Centuries
3
Credits
Between 1600 and 1815, the Atlantic world experienced a series of changes that each had long-lasting implications for the people of the early modern world. This course covers not only the political upheavals in the Netherlands, England, the American colonies, and France, but also the intellectual changes of the Scientific Revolution and the socio-economic transformations of the Industrial Revolution. All of these movements have traditionally been classified as Revolutions, but this course questions the abruptness of the changes and instead emphasizes their evolutionary aspects. None of the events can be seen in isolation, so we will explore how the multi-layered movements affected economic-, religious-, and political life on both sides of the Atlantic.
HIST 322: English Society under the Tudors and Stuarts, 1485-1660
3
Credits
The major outlines of political change from the founding of the Tudor dynasty to the English Civil War provide the background for a more detailed survey of English society. Economic and demographic changes; selected topics of social history receive special attention: the histories of the family, community, religion, riots and revolts, and popular culture.
HIST 323: The Renaissance, 1300-1530
3
Credits
A survey of the intellectual and cultural life of western Europe from 1300 to 1530, with particular attention to the revival of classical literary and artistic forms and to the emergence of a new view of human nature and of the world.
HIST 324: Medieval Pilgrimages
3
Credits
From Jerusalem, Rome, St. James of Compostela to Chaucer's Canterbury: the pilgrimages in medieval life, thought, and art. Discussions and presentations may take the place of lectures if number of participants permits.
HIST 325: Europe in the Reformation Era, 1500-1648
3
Credits
An examination of the political, socioeconomic, intellectual, and religious backgrounds and the careers and teachings of the magisterial and radical reformers both on the continent and in England. Also studied are the Catholic reforms and the religious wars and peace movements.
HIST 326: Nineteenth-Century Britain
3
Credits
Explores significant trends in the social, political, and cultural history of Britain's long nineteenth century, from the French Revolution to the death of Queen Victoria in 1901. Topics include the impact of the French Revolution upon British political culture; growth of British imperial power; struggles for the expansion of political rights; and development of class politics and cultures.
HIST 326A: Britain and the Second World War
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 327: Twentieth-Century Britain
3
Credits
An examination of Britain from the death of Victoria to the defeat of Margaret Thatcher in 1990. Charts the changing fortunes of Britain in the twentieth century, from imperial power to middle-rank European nation. Topics include the experience and impact of total war; experiments with social citizenship; and decolonization and the decline of imperial prestige.
HIST 329: History Of British Cinema
3
Credits
An exploration of British cinema from its origins until the present day. Focuses on the production and distribution of British films, as well as provides an analysis of specific films important to a history of cinema as an art form and medium of mass communication.
HIST 329A: The Family in European History
3
Credits
This course will begin with a brief examination of family law in antiquity and the structure of the European medieval family before considering the transformation of the family in the early modern period, particularly in response to the Reformation and the rise of the nation state. Although the Renaissance is often described as the birthplace of modern individualism, the early modern period can just as easily be seen as dominated by families who employed cultural strategies to increase their collective reputation and power. The course will finish by examining the challenges to the modern European family in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A wide range of experiences will be covered, from the family life of royalty and aristocracy to the demographic and legal evidence of everyday life in the homes of artisans and peasants. The social and economic pressures that shaped the family will be discussed, as well as debates over the emotional life of the early modern family. Readings will include letters, journals, legal documents, instructional pamphlets, sermons, novels, and moralizing treatises.
HIST 330: Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft, 1400 to the Present
3
Credits
This course will begin with a brief examination of family law in antiquity and the structure of the European medieval family before considering the transformation of the family in the early modern period, particularly in response to the Reformation and the rise of the nation state. Although the Renaissance is often described as the birthplace of modern individualism, the early modern period can just as easily be seen as dominated by families who employed cultural strategies to increase their collective reputation and power. The course will finish by examining the challenges to the modern European family in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A wide range of experiences will be covered, from the family life of royalty and aristocracy to the demographic and legal evidence of everyday life in the homes of artisans and peasants. The social and economic pressures that shaped the family will be discussed, as well as debates over the emotional life of the early modern family. Readings will include letters, journals, legal documents, instructional pamphlets, sermons, novels, and moralizing treatises.
HIST 331A: Early Modern Europe, 1450 - 1750
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 332: The French Revolution
3
Credits
France from 1750 to 1799. Emphasis on the origins and causes of the French Revolution, the attempt to reform the Old Regime, the nature and explanation of the Reign of Terror, and the meaning and importance of the Revolution for subsequent historical development.
HIST 333: Modern Japan
3
Credits
The aim of this course is to examine cultural and social change over the past one and a quarter centuries; to focus primarily upon literature and language change, cinema, and education as, simultaneously, important indicators of, and factors effecting and shaping, that change; and to explore the complex interactions between "traditional" and "modern" factors as Japan has evolved.
HIST 334: Religion and Society in Early Modern Germany
3
Credits
This course will approach the history of Germany from the perspective of religious experience and change in the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries. A central part of the course will be the Protestant Reformation, which began in Germany with Martin Luther's protest. But we will also examine the Catholic movement for reform, its response to the Protestant challenge, as well as how changes in Catholic and Protestant devotion took hold among the people. Other topics include the relationship between political and religious culture, the witch-hunts of the sixteenth and seventeenth century, popular religion, Anabaptism and other sectaries, and the Thirty Year's War.
HIST 335: American Indian History
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 336: Women in Modern Europe
3
Credits
Examines the experience of women and the meaning of gender in Britain, France, and Germany from the onset of industrialization through the period following the Second World War. Particular attention to: the impact of industrialization on the European family; the Victorian construction of separate spheres; the role of the state, industry, and science in defining gender roles; the impact of war on gender relations; the growth of the welfare state.
HIST 337: The Science of Man: Great Works of Modern Social Thoughts
3
Credits
"This course examines the great works of modern social science, works of ongoing interest and influence that have achieved the status of classics. Each work is studied in its historical context, with an eye to bringing out the themes of perennial interest for the study of society, politics, economics psychology and culture. Those studied include Hobbes, Adam Smith, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud Weber, Durkheim and Simmel."
HIST 338: Europe, 1945-1995
3
Credits
The history of Europe, west and east, during the Cold War. Topics include the division of Germany, the communization of eastern Europe, the development of the welfare state, decolonization, the New Left, the exhaustion of the welfare state and neo-liberalism, the collapse of communism, and the attempt to build democratic, capitalist societies in eastern Europe.
HIST 339: The Hinge Years: The World from 1945-1949
3
Credits
This course deals with the ways in which western intellectuals have thought about capitalism, not only as an economic system, but in terms of its moral, political, and cultural ramifications. It explores the historical roots of thinking about what has come to be called ¿globalization.¿ Does the spread of the market ¿ across geographical borders and into ever greater regions of our lives ¿ make us better off or worse? What effect does it have on personal development, on the family, and on collective identities? This course focuses on the response to such questions by major European thinkers from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries.
HIST 339A: Capitalism in Modern European Thought
3
Credits
This course deals with the ways in which western intellectuals have thought about capitalism, not only as an economic system, but in terms of its moral, political, and cultural ramifications. It explores the historical roots of thinking about what has come to be called "globalization." Does the spread of the market -- across geographical borders and into ever greater regions of our lives -- make us better off or worse? What effect does it have on personal development, on the family, and on collective identities? This course focuses on the response to such questions by major European thinkers from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries.
HIST 340: Modern European Intellectual History I
3
Credits
Examines the major trends and great individual works of modern European thought by situating them in their historical contexts, with an emphasis on the development of social and political thought. First semester: the Enlightenment to the mid-nineteenth century; explorations of works by Voltaire, Hume, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, the Romantics, Hegel, Marx, Hobbes, Locke, Mill, and others.
HIST 341: Modern European Intellectual History II
3
Credits
Continues from 340. Second semester: the period from the late nineteenth century to the present; begins with the critique of liberalism and rationalism in the works of Nietzsche, Pareto, and Freud; examines Durkheim, Weber, and the rise of sociology; the intellectual reaction to the First World War, to communism and to fascism; and the reformation of liberal, conservative, and radical thought in the later twentieth century.
HIST 342: History of Technology, 15th - 20th Century
3
Credits
In our time, science and technology combine to provide the material framework of daily life, but only in the past two centuries have the two streams begun to converge in a meaningful way. For much of human history, technology has had a far greater impact on human survival. Tool use has allowed humans to expand and exploit their habitat, and increase their control over the natural world. Technological advances and adaptations accelerated militarization, modernization and industrialization in the `Western¿ world, which in turn skewed the global power balance in its favor. Modern medicine and agriculture have led to longer lives and larger populations that increasingly compete for the same resources, while communication and transportation technology continue to shrink the world. This course covers the constantly evolving interaction between our use and abuse of technology and the resulting changes in our world.
HIST 342A: US Business: A History of its Industrial, Technological, Political and Cultural Legacy, 1800-1990
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 345: Imperial Austria I
3
Credits
A survey of Imperial Austria and its European holdings. Part I: 1496-1792. Explores social, cultural, political, and religious history. Concentrates on border conflicts with the Ottoman Empire, the development of government structures, the role of the peasantry, and Vienna's Golden Age of Music.
HIST 346: Imperial Austria II
3
Credits
Continues from 345. Part II: 1792-1920. Examines relations with Napoleon, the Congress of Vienna, the Age of Metternich including the Biedermeier, the revolutions of 1848, the rise of political Nationalism, political and social turmoil in the empire at the end of the nineteenth century, and World War I.
HIST 347A: History of Europe, 1848-1920
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 348: America and the World
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 349: Washington:Symbol and City
3
Credits
Examines the history of Washington, DC, in the context of the larger history of American urbanization. The course makes extensive use of Washington¿s resources, with numerous field trips and classes at various city locales.
HIST 350: Europe Since 1945
3
Credits
The history of Europe, west and east, since the end of the Second World War. Topics include the division of Germany, the communization of eastern Europe, the development of the welfare state, decolonization, the New Left, the dilemmas of the welfare state, the collapse of communism and the attempt to build democratic societies in eastern Europe.
The several film screening will be held on Wednesday evenings, in place of class hours.
Requirements include a mid-term, a final examination, and a short paper.
HIST 351: The United States in the 20th Century, 1914-1948
3
Credits
The first in a two-course sequence exploring the political, social, intellectual, and diplomatic history of the United States in the "short" 20th Century. This course begins with the First World war and ends with the advent of the Cold War.
HIST 352: The US in the 20th Century, 1949 - 1989
3
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no description available
HIST 353: The Era of Civil War and Reconstruction
3
Credits
Investigates the military, political, social, and economic aspects of the war that sundered the United States in 1861. Topics include: the background of the sectional crisis; military events and political affairs during the war; the experiences of Americans on the battlefield and the home front; the destruction of slavery; and the post-war reconstruction of the South and the nation.
HIST 353A: Abraham Lincoln in History and Memory
3
Credits
This course will explore the life, presidency, and public memory of America's 16th President. By reading historians' accounts as well as the words of Lincoln and his contemporaries, we will examine his multiple roles: as antebellum lawyer and politician; as wartime executive and commander in chief; as public orator and man of ideas. We will also study how successive generations have commemorated his presidency and made him such a potent symbol for the meaning and promise of America's past.
HIST 355: Social History of the Early American Family
3
Credits
Examines changing gender roles, family structure, demographic patterns, and attitudes toward sex and marriage from the founding of the British colonies to 1848, the Seneca Falls Convention.
HIST 357: Hist of Old South 1607-1865
3
Credits
This course surveys the history of the U.S. South from the founding of Jamestown through the Civil War. It examines the origins and development of plantation slavery and racial ideology; the intertwined histories of masters, slaves, and non-slaveowning white Southerners; the growth of the sectional conflict; and the Confederacy?s attempt to establish an independent slaveowning republic.
HIST 357A: US South Since The Civil War
3
Credits
This course will survey the history of the American South from the end of the Civil War through the current day. Its purposes are two-fold: to provide students an understanding of the South and of Southerners, and to explore what the experience of the South can teach us about America as a nation. Through primary and secondary readings, lectures, and class discussions we will examine such topics as: the political and economic reconstruction of the South after the Civil War; the Populist revolt; the politics of race in the era of Jim Crow and disfranchisement; the rise of the ¿Sunbelt¿ South; the Civil Rights movement; and the question of persisting regional distinctiveness.
HIST 358: Interwar America: 1918-1941
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 359: Women in U.S. History, 1750-Present
3
Credits
Surveys the "female experience" in America from the later colonial period to the present. Examines change and continuity of women's experience of courtship, marriage and child-rearing, education, religion, employment, and politics (broadly defined). Also considers how examining our national history through the lens of female experience affects our understanding of that history and historical processes more generally.
HIST 360: U.S. Immigration & Ethnicity
3
Credits
This course traces successive waves of immigration to the United States, beginning in the 1840s and continuing to the present day. It examines American attitudes and responses to immigration over the generations, including laws governing immigration and citizenship, and the various immigrant reactions to these. It also examines community building among various immigrant populations and the ethnic groups this ultimately gave rise to. In this regard, the course explores immigrant and ethnic religion, education, politics, patterns of work and sociability, and attitudes toward assimilation.
HIST 361: War and Society in the Middle Ages
3
Credits
This course will analyze the relationships between military, social and cultural history of Europe during the Middle Ages. Proceeding chronologically, we will examine changes in European methods of warfare, social organization, and thought about warfare from the period of Germanic invasions, to the spread of feudalism, and to the rise of centralized states. You will be expected to work with various types of primary sources, such as chronicles, epics, romances, theoretical treatises on warfare and chivalry, and archeological reports.
HIST 361A: The Legacy of Lincoln: American Art and Culture from 1809 to 1930
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 362: Nazism
3
Credits
Examines the roots of Nazism in German political culture before and during the First World War, the failure of Germany's first liberal democratic republic, the rise of National Socialism and the consolidation of Hitler's totalitarian regime; the attempt to recast Europe in the mold of Nazi racial ideology during World War II and the systematic murder of European Jewry. Concludes with a look at the aftermath of National Socialism in Germany.
HIST 364: Catholicism in America Since 1945
3
Credits
An interdisciplinary examination of change and continuity in American Catholicism since the close of World War II. Among the issues to be explored: change and continuity in religious practice and devotional culture; assimilation, ethnicity and the impact of heightened immigration; politics and social movements; the varied and shifting sources of Catholic identity.
HIST 366: Devotionalism in U.S. Catholicism, 1850-1970
3
Credits
This course will explore the origins and development of devotionalism to U.S. parishes; topics treated include immigration, nativism, anti-Catholicism, religious separatism, the devotional subculture, the proliferation of parish confraternities and sodalities dedicated to Mary, the saints, the Eucharist, and the Holy Spirit, parish missions, the liturgical movement, the Second Vatican Council, and the continuity of devotions. These topics will be placed in relation to changes in church and society.
HIST 367: Colonial North America
3
Credits
The coming together of Europeans, native peoples, and Africans in colonial North America produced new societies, new cultures, even new peoples; and laid the foundations for the society we live in today. This course begins with the dynamics that brought these peoples together in the sixteenth century, and focuses on the development of English colonies in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to explore how their interactions created new worlds. We will explore such themes as the responses of Indian groups to European traders, settlers, and missionaries; the development of slavery and African-American cultures; the emergence of distinctive colonial societies along the Atlantic seaboard; and continuing rivalries among European empires.
HIST 369: US Civil Rights Movement, 1945-Present
3
Credits
After briefly surveying developments in U.S. race relations from Reconstruction through the Second World War, this course explores in depth the civil rights activism and politics of the 1950s and 1960s. The latter portion of the course examines the evolution of such "post-Movement" policies as busing and affirmative action and traces the course of American race relations since the 1970s.
HIST 370: Religion and Society in the Early Modern World
3
Credits
This course analyzes religion, politics, and society in Europe and the European empires (especially the British and Spanish empires), ca. 1450-ca. 1700. Readings will focus on primary sources. Among the topics to be studied are relations between Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and other non-Christian peoples; the lives and works of Erasmus, Thomas More, and Martin Luther; the Inquisition in Spain and Portugal; imperial rivalries in their political and religious contexts; the development of biblical criticism; and religious toleration.
HIST 371: Latin America: 20th Century
3
Credits
A survey of economic, social, and political developments with the emphasis on understanding the causes and consequences of political and economic change.
HIST 373: America in World Affairs: 1775-1898
3
Credits
A new look at an old period: American commercial and diplomatic relations with the world, including Native Americans from 1775 to 1898. With the recent publication by the National Archives of the consular correspondence of the early years of the Department of State, new information is available on the patterns and problems of American commerce. This along with recent scholarship on leaders and policies bring an additional dimension to the historiography of the American Republic in the nineteenth century and the vital role that foreign commerce played in providing money for the operations of the Federal government. Incorporates new insights, information, and interpretations into the story of American relations with the world.
HIST 374: Slavery in America
3
Credits
Studies the emergence of colonial slave societies, their development in nation-states, and the demise of slavery. Emphasis on slave-free relations, the economics of slavery, and the impact of slavery on societal politics. How slaves developed their own subculture within a hegemonic society.
HIST 375: Revolutionary America
3
Credits
1740-1880. This course explores one of the most dramatic and formative eras in our national history. Lectures and seminars focus on three major events: the imperial crisis of the 1760s, the War for Independence, and the creation of the Federal Constitution. Emphasis throughout is on the relationship between political events and trends in society and culture. Readings balance historical interpretations and primary sources so that we can all work towards our own judgments about this controversial period.
HIST 376A: The First World War, 1914 - 1918
3
Credits
This course examines the First World War in terms of its social political, economic, cultural, and military impacts, both on Western Europe as well as Africa, Asia, and North America. Drawing on a range of primary sources, including government documents, personal narratives, fictional accounts, and film, the course places the First World War in global perspective.
HIST 377: World War II
3
Credits
Major developments in American foreign policy from the American Revolution to the end of World War II. Special attention to the development and modification of ideas and principles in the evolution of American diplomacy in the nineteenth century and the impact of the various presidents and their secretaries of state.
HIST 378: Immigrants in America:1820-1940
3
Credits
Traces the history of immigration to America from the advent of the great migration of the 1840s to the end of mass immigration in the 1920s. Discusses the causes of immigration; the adjustments of immigrants to American life; and the ethnic identities and cultures forged by American born descendants of the immigrants. Focuses on Irish, German, Italian, Polish, Chinese, and Japanese immigrants and ethnics as well as other groups that were part of this era of mass immigration to America.
HIST 379: The Cold War 1945-1975
3
Credits
The development of American policies toward the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and mainland China from World War II to the 1970s. The influence of domestic political policies and the role of the United Nations, as well as major aspects of historical interpretation of the period.
HIST 380: The Irish in America
3
Credits
Addresses the history of the Irish in the United States as a case study in the history of American immigrants and ethnicity. Examines how Irish American definitions of identity, cultural practices and beliefs, and even group boundaries changed over time, and how Irish American experiences varied in different regions of the country. Traces the story from the seventeenth century to the 1960s and 1970s, but focuses most heavily on the period since the Famine migration in the 1840s and 1850s. Addresses such topics as Irish American Catholicism, nationalism, family and gender roles, and politics.
HIST 381: Border Culture:Mexico and the Southwestern United States, 1776-1930
3
Credits
Examines the relations between indigenous, Hispanic, and United States communities from the late eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. Compares treatment of indigenous populations in the expansion of Mexico to the north, and the United States to the west in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; the reasons for the separation of Mexico from its far northern provinces in 1848; and the cultural, political, and economic impact of the frontier, as well as the relationship between Hispanic and Anglo-Saxon communities on both sides of the frontier after 1848.
HIST 382: World War II: A Military and Diplomatic Perspective
3
Credits
World War II, its causes, major events, major leaders, and results. Viewed from a worldwide perspective.
HIST 383: Latin America & U.S. History
3
Credits
United States and Latin American independence; the Monroe Doctrine; borders with Mexico, Panama Canal; Roosevelt corollary; intervention 1910-1930; the United States and revolution.
HIST 384: Race, Family, and Social Change in Latin America,1800-1930
3
Credits
Examines how economic and political change interacted with social transformations in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Latin America. Topics include the changing social and economic roles of women, family structures, slavery and abolition, immigration, urbanization, and impact of change on Indian communities.
HIST 385: Culture and Society in Modern Latin America
3
Credits
Explores politics and culture in Latin America since the late nineteenth century. Central themes include the role of the church in politics; the politics of modernization, social movements and the transition to civilian rule, and art and literature in Latin America.
HIST 386: Modern Mexico
3
Credits
Readings in economic, social, and political development of Mexico, 1900 to the present.
HIST 387: Junior Seminar
3
Credits
Develops skills necessary for critical analysis of historical methods, arguments and writing. Instructor and students read and discuss exemplary historical works, while extensive writing assignments encourage sharpened analytical and argument skills. Part I: Varieties and methodologies of history. Required of all history majors in their junior year, open to others at instructor's discretion. Prerequisites: 101 and 102.
HIST 388: Junior Seminar
3
Credits
Continues from 387. Part II: Major historiographical issues among modern historians. Required of all history majors in their junior year, open to others at instructor's discretion. Prerequisites: 101 and 102.
HIST 390A: Crisis and Continuity in Seventeenth Century Europe
3
Credits
This course will examine a critical period of transition in European history, the age of the first ¿world¿ war, the period in which kings were overthrown and the right to rebel was first defended by philosophers, the era of the scientific revolution and the early Enlightenment, and the time in which both modern republicanism and absolutism were established alongside the idea of the nation-state. The course will begin from the argument made by historians that the seventeenth century was a time of universal crisis, and will consider from there the many political, philosophical, and cultural resolutions that emerged.
HIST 391: Hapsburg Emp East Eur to 1848
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 393: The Scientific Revolution
3
Credits
Examines the scientific revolution from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Topics include immediate origins of the revolution, Copernican astronomy through Kepler and Galileo, the new algebra, circulation of the blood, methods of Bacon and Descartes, atomism, Newtonian science and Leibniz's monads, through the seventeenth century. Examines Euler and the exact sciences, the Kantian critique, Lagrange and Laplace, and chemical science from Paracelsus to phlogiston theory to Lavoisier for the eighteenth century. Considers the work of the four new national science academies and major universities, and probes discourses between the new sciences and religious and cultural developments of the Reformation and Enlightenment.
HIST 394: History of Modern Science and Medicine
3
Credits
This course examines the evolution of the natural sciences, mathematics, and medicine from 1800 to the present. It focuses on major themes, persons, and institutions that have shaped these fields. Science and medicine are set within a social and cultural context and the role it had in generating or impeding them. Among the topics studied are the rise of chemical atomism, the dispute over the energy conservation principle, the reaction to Darwin's evolution by natural selection, Freud's psychoanalysis, Einstein's relativity, the development of modern medicines, such as penicillin, and the growing professionalization of the sciences. Both successful and erroneous ideas as well as acerbic controversies are considered. In this course, the critical-constructive analysis of primary sources, secondary books, and articles, along with clear, well-organized writing are important.
HIST 399: The Non-Western World,1500-1900
3
Credits
Considers the impact of contact with North Atlantic societies on traditional cultures in Latin America, China, India and the Middle East. Emphasizes political and intellectual themes.
HIST 401: Senior Thesis Seminar
3
Credits
Required for senior concentrators. The culminating requirement for every student seeking a B.A. degree in history is an undergraduate thesis, based on primary research in original sources. For concentrators in history, this thesis requirement substitutes for the comprehensive examination required for most other undergraduate subjects. Each fall semester, the several sections of HIST 401 are offered in different areas of history (Medieval Europe, Early United States, etc.); groups of students work on their individual projects but present each stage of their research to their fellow students in the tutorial group. Entry to tutorial sections is arranged during the previous semester (during HIST 388). Prerequisites: 101, 102, 387, and 388.
HIST 409: From Empire to Kingdom:Romans and Barbarians in the Early Middle Ages
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 493: Internship
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 495: Independent Study
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 497: Directed Readings
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 498: Directed Readings
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 520: Pagan & Christian Historians: from Late Antiquity to the Western Middle Ages
3
Credits
Pagan & Christian Historians: from Late Antiquity to the Western Middle Ages
HIST 521: Medieval World in Late Antiquity
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 529: Ireland 19th/20th Century (Ireland)
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 531: Renaissance
3
Credits
An examination of current scholarship on such topics as civic humanism (Florence and Venice), Florentine Platonism, humanistic theology, art, epideictic oratory, Roman Renaissance, conciliarism, education, Erasmian humanism, Italian confraternities, the family, the roles of women, and northern humanism.
HIST 534: Modern Irish History
3
Credits
This course examines nationalism and unionism in their constitutional and revolutionary forms from the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Beginning with the long-debated issue of whether Ireland was a kingdom or a colony, the examination will progress from Protestant Patriotism and United Irishmen in the eighteenth century to Union, Famine, Home Rule and Unionism in the nineteenth century, and to revolution, civil war and partition in the twentieth century. The course will incorporate an examination of theoretical perspectives among Irish historians in terms of revisionism, post-colonialism and gender.
HIST 535: Public History
3
Credits
This course will discuss the interpretation of history to non academic audiences through school curricula, websites, monuments and memorials, and television and movie documentaries. It will focus in particular on interpretations of history of historical houses, walking tours and heritage trails, and museums. The course will be taught through classroom readings, lectures, and discussions as well as observations and discussions on tours and site travels.
HIST 539: Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe & New England
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 540: Famine Irish Immigrants and their Children: A Case Study in Immigration
3
Credits
This course will focus on the story of the Irish immigrants who fled their homeland's famine in the late 1840s and their children, who grew to maturity at the turn of the twentieth century, as a case study in American immigration and ethnic group history. Participants will read from all the major secondary sources on topics such as family history and family memory; the background of Famine Irish society; the Famine and its aftermath in Ireland, the processes of migration; the theory of ethnic group evolution in America; Irish participation in the American economy; Irish American neighborhoods; Irish American families; the civic, religious and leisure lives of Famine immigrants and their children; and Irish Americans and other immigrant groups. Participants will also learn how to use primary sources in Ireland and the United States to reconstruct histories of Irish and Irish American families and communities in the nineteenth century.
HIST 550: Reformation
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 551: Nationalism and Consequences in 20th Century
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 552: Modern European Intellectual History
3
Credits
An introduction to major themes and methods in the study of modern European intellectual history. Emphasis on contextual approaches, on the history of social and political thought, and on the social and political roles of intellectuals. This course covers the period from the late nineteenth century to the present, beginning with the critique of liberalism and rationalism in the works of Nietzsche, Pareto, and Freud: examines Durkheim, beber, and the rise of sociology; th intellectual reaction to he First World War, to communism, and to fascism; and the reformulatiion of liberal, conservative and radical thought in the later twentieth century. Prevously offered as 626 and 641.
HIST 553: Classics of Social Thought
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 568: History of European Cooperation (Leuven)
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 569: Europe: A Cultural Entity (Leuven)
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 571: Latin America:Culture and Politics
3
Credits
The course will focus on the intellectual history of Latin America from the independence period to the present. Topics will include the development of national identity; the historical and philosophical essay in Latin America; art, literature, music, and film; the transition from monarchy to republic in Brazil; the comparative history of Brazil and Spanish America; and the relationship between Latin America and the United States.
HIST 572: Church in Colonial Latin America
3
Credits
A survey of the process of evangelization, the development of church institutions, the nature of religious belief and popular religiosity from 1492 until the end of the colonial period. The emphasis will be on Hispanic America but comparisons to the experiences in Portuguese America will be made.
HIST 574: The Missionary Church in America, Asia and Africa, 1500-1800
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 575: Religion and Society in the Early Modern World
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 585: Latin America: Religion and Society in 19th and 20th Century
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 601: Historical Analysis and Methodology
3
Credits
An introduction, for students in all fields of history, to the varieties of current historical research and their analysis at the graduate level. Special attention to political, economic, and social structures and systems, cultural and gender studies, and comparative analysis. Students analyze historical works in depth, concentrating upon research design and philosophy.
HIST 603: Historical Teaching
3
Credits
A practicum for teaching history at the undergraduate level, intended for and limited to graduate students serving as teaching assistants in the department.
HIST 604: Historical Teaching
3
Credits
A practicum for teaching history at the undergraduate level, intended for and limited to graduate students serving as teaching assistants in the department.
HIST 605: Late Antiquity to Early Byzantium
3
Credits
Traces the transformation of the Eastern Roman Empire into a medieval Greek empire in the fourth through eighth centuries. Dual emphasis on 1) religious conversion, changing notions of holiness, cosmology, and ethics, and 2) changes in Mediterranean trade, demography, and urbanism.
HIST 607: Women, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages, 1100-1500
3
Credits
Moving thematically as well as chronologically, examines the intersecting themes of women, sex, and gender in the period 1100-1500. Documentary as well as literary sources, including the works of Hildegard of Bingen and Christine de Pisan. Also considers historiography of women's history and recent literature on the history of gender and sexuality. Topics include gender as a category of analysis, medical science and gender, gender and religion, sexual orientation, questions of literacy, marriage, family and work.
HIST 608: Anglo-Saxon England
3
Credits
Looks at the British Isles from the Roman period to the end of the twelfth century, with an emphasis on the Anglo-Saxon society and culture; primary sources from Caesar, the laws of Alfred, William the Conqueror and his heirs elucidate social, political, and economic developments; attention to historiographical questions like the origin of feudalism.
HIST 608A: Anglo Saxon England in Comparative Perspective
3
Credits
This readings course will focus on current trends in the field of Anglo-Saxon Studies. Over the course of the semester, we will attempt to come to terms with not only modern standard works in the field (e.g., D. Rollason's Saints and Relics in Anglo-Saxon England and J. Blair's The Church in Anglo-Saxon Society) and certain recent controversies (e.g., that surrounding A. Smyth's King Alfred the Great), but also, occasionally, classic studies that have retained their relevance (e.g., W. Levison's England and the Continent in the Eighth Century). A common thread in our reading will be the question of insular exceptionalism, and as a result we will devote some time to examining parallels in the Continental historiography of the same period (e.g., the relevant sections of S. Reynold's important study, Fiefs and Vassals). Evaluation: Several book reviews and one longer historiographical essay on a topic of the student's choosing.
HIST 609: Medieval Civilization I
3
Credits
This course will serve to introduce students to some of the major themes and problems which currently define the field of early medieval history, circa 500-1200. We will read some classic works of history on the early Middle Ages, as well as new and innovative approaches. Topics will include archaeology, the ¿Feudal Revolution¿, and ritual, among others. The class will be structured around some of the major debates which dominate the study of early medieval history.
HIST 610: Medieval Civilization II
3
Credits
This course is neither lecture nor survey; rather, it is designed as an introduction to some of the major historiographical themes and problems of the later medieval period. We shall examine historians' methods and approaches to these topics by way of a mixture of classic monographs and articles interspersed with some of the newest and most stimulating contributions to the field. Topics can include: women and gender; twelfth-century renaissance; family; violence and civil disorder; towns; political configurations; theories and practice of government; religious life; plague; rebellions. All readings are in English.
HIST 611: Medieval Monarchy
3
Credits
Examines primarily the Eastern Roman Empire and the Islamic Caliphate from the establishment of their medieval forms in the eighth century to the advent of the Crusades. Emphasis on 1) comparison of types of polities and relationships between structures of society and the organization of political power, and 2) the competition for the expansion of Orthodox, Islamic, and Western European religious and social systems into Eastern Europe and Western Asia.
HIST 612: Medieval France
3
Credits
Focuses on the evolution of a centralized monarchy, its attributes and relationship to constituent institutions, particularly the church and local government; the emergence of the independent principalities in the late Carolingian period, for instance, Normandy and Aquitaine. Examines the growth of towns, largely through primary source readings (usually in translation) and selected secondary works.
HIST 612A: Archaeology for the Medieval Historian
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 613: The Reformation
3
Credits
Examines current scholarship on such topics as the state of religion on the eve of the Reformation, Luther, the Peasants' War, diffusion of Reformation ideas (printing, sermons, art, etc.), Reformation in the German cities, origins of Anabaptism, Evangelism in Italy, the role of civil government in the English Reformation, women, Jews, witch-craze, and the effects of the Reformation.
HIST 614: The Renaissance
3
Credits
An examination of current scholarship on such topics as civic humanism (Florence and Venice), Florentine Platonism, humanistic theology, art, epideictic oratory, Roman Renaissance, conciliarism, education, Erasmian humanism, Italian confraternities, the family, the roles of women, and northern humanism.
HIST 615: The Crusades
3
Credits
This readings course introduces students to the major trends and recent developments in the historiography of the medieval crusades to the Near East.
HIST 616: Church and Monarchy in Medieval Europe: The Investiture Controversy
3
Credits
Examines changes in the relationship between the rulers in Western Europe and the papacy; Carolingian visions, changes during the Viking invasions; revival of piety including strong lay movements; Cluny and Italian monastic developments; Salian Germany and introduction of the reform to Rome by Henry III; changes in emphasis among Roman reformers; the revival of canon law; a new understanding of the primitiva ecclesia and a new vision of the papal role in the world; Gregory VII and the prohibition of investiture; results of the prohibition on the feudal society of the day; equilibrium between monarchy and church found at Worms in 1122.
HIST 617A: Anglo-Norman England
3
Credits
This course is designed to introduce graduate students to scholarship on Anglo-Norman England. We will read both classic texts and more recent studies. The course will be organized both chronologically and thematically. After examining different approaches to constructing general surveys of the period, we will explore some of the major controversies in Anglo-Norman political, legal, social, religious, and cultural history, including the impact of the Norman Conquest, the ethnic assimilation of English and Norman, the creation of a distinctly English historiography, the nature of the so-called ¿Angevin Empire,¿ and the birth of the English Common Law. We will concentrate throughout on analyzing historians¿ use of evidence and their construction of arguments.
HIST 618: Greek Palaeography
3
Credits
The study of Greek manuscripts and writing from the third to fifteenth centuries.
HIST 619: Readings on the Old South
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 621: Introduction to Byzantine History
3
Credits
The primary goals of this class are to a) learn the basic course of events in the Empire in the 8-12th centuries; b) introduce various genres of source material and their methodological issues; c) read notable examples of these genres; d) and explore how studying a particular text can lead to understanding the mentality of the author and his or her culture.
HIST 622: Topics in Medieval History
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 623: Early Modern France
3
Credits
France from the late fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries. Focuses on the cultural, political, and social development of France, with particular attention to the growth of the monarchy and an increasingly centralized state's effect on society. Readings drawn from the most recent scholarship.
HIST 623A: Topics in Seventeenth-Century Europe
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 624: Comparative Fascism
3
Credits
An introduction to contemporary research on the radical right in twentieth-century Europe, with a focus on National Socialism and the Third Reich, and attention to comparable regimes and movements elsewhere for comparative purposes. Topics include fascist ideology, sources of support, fascism and business, fascism and the churches, antisemitism and the Holocaust.
HIST 625: Modern Germany
3
Credits
An introduction to the major interpretive works and historiographical controversies in the history of modern Germany, from the mid-nineteenth century through the early years of the Federal Republic. Topics include the role of the governmental bureaucracy in modernization, the peculiarities of the German liberalism, the role of Catholics and anti-Catholicism in the politics of the Kaiserreich, the relationships between internal developments and foreign policy; the collapse of the Weimar Republic, the rise of radical nationalism, and the nature of the Third Reich.
HIST 628: Culture and Science During Europe's Eighteenth Century Enlightenment
3
Credits
Examines elaboration across Europe of Newtonian science, including quarrels with Cartesians in Paris, the inclusion of new science in the Encyclopedie, German studies of natural philosophy from Leibniz to Kant, and the reaction of the French Revolution to scientific research, set within the context of national science academies and responses by philosophies, enlightened despots, and cities.
HIST 629: Topics in Cold War History
3
Credits
A readings course examining the domestic politics, diplomacy, and global impact of the Cold War.
HIST 630: Scientific Revolution
3
Credits
Sets the sweeping changes in the exact sciences and medicine in the larger social, cultural, and intellectual contexts from which they sprang. Examines patronage and the formation of new royal institutional bases for the sciences as well as revisionist historical debates.
HIST 631: State & Society: Early Modern Europe
3
Credits
Statemaking and its social and cultural implications from 1450-1800. Issues examined include the military revolution, fiscal history, the rise of the court, revolt and revolution, and shifting political culture.
HIST 631A: Church, State, and Law in Early Modern Europe
3
Credits
Topics covered will include the relationship between church, state, and law in the Renaissance and Reformation, the Spanish Inquisition, overseas expansion, early modern Rome and the papacy, the wars of religion, absolutism and constitutionalism, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution. Particular attention will be given to definitions of natural law, the question of nationalism, the rise of the nation state and the growth of state power, religious toleration, codification, diplomacy, and sovereignty.
HIST 632: Tudor/Stuart England
3
Credits
An introduction to the variety of topics and of approaches evident in recent historical research and writing concerning England during the Tudor and early Stuart periods (roughly 1500-1650). The course consists of topically-based units of reading, illustrating different typologies of work exemplified in the current secondary literature at large. Roughly equal emphasis upon political, social and economic, and religious history. Major topics include the problems of the medieval/early modern divide, the English reformation(s), the foundations of the early modern state, and economic and demographic change. In-class discussions and writing assignments focus upon approaches and historiography.
HIST 633A: The Creation of the Middle Ages by the Early Modern World
3
Credits
The Renaissance self-consciously tried to distinguish itself from the ¿dark ages¿ that had preceded it, introducing a new and influential understanding of the European past. But the early modern period could not easily divorce itself from the Middle Ages, even as it often disparaged medieval ¿barbarism.¿ This course will consider the rise of medieval scholarship from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment and the powerful influence of medieval intellectuals on many aspects of early modern European life. Topics will include the contest between humanism and scholasticism, the circulation of medieval works, the survival of the manuscript in the age of the printing press, transitions in art and architecture, diverging interpretations of Church history, and the practice of history.
HIST 635: European Culture and Society, 1450-1800
3
Credits
This course will survey a range of themes and topics relating to the cultural evolution of Europe in the early modern period. The approach of the course is to look at the experiences, customs, and beliefs of Europeans of all classes and to place them within the context of the cultural development of society. This course will examine a series of "cultures," including print culture, learned culture, popular culture, religious culture, political culture, and consumer culture and the rise of the market culture.
HIST 637: Politics & Society :20th Century United States
3
Credits
Exploration of a tumultuous period of depression and world war; focuses on such issues as the causes of economic depression and recovery, the nature of the New Deal, the rise of organized labor, the character and influence of mass culture, the relationship of art and politics, and domestic effects of war mobilization, and continuities and changes in the lives of ordinary Americans. Special efforts to integrate the perspectives offered by political, cultural, and social history.
HIST 638A: History and Literature
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 640: Later Medieval England
3
Credits
Intended to give students an introduction to the variety of topics and of approaches in historical research and writing concerning later-medieval England (basically, the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries). The reading list has been put together, first, to construct topically-based units of reading, drawn from a variety of areas (political, religious, social, economic, etc.); and second, to illustrate different typologies of work exemplified in the current secondary literature at large. Emphasis in discussion not only upon substantive topics, but also upon historiography. Each student chooses one larger topic or problem arising out of the reading list for a more extended historiographical essay.
HIST 641: Modern European Intellectual History I
3
Credits
An introduction to major themes and methods in the study of modern European intellectual history. Emphasis on contextual approaches, on the history of social and political thought, and on the social and political roles of intellectuals. First semester covers the period from the mid-seventeenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries; explorations of works by Hobbes, Locke, Voltaire, Hume, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, the Romantics, Hegel, Marx, Mill, and others. Second semester covers the period from the late nineteenth century to the present, beginning with the critique of liberalism and rationalism in the works of Nietzsche, Pareto, and Freud; examines Durkheim, Weber, and the rise of sociology; the intellectual reaction to the First World War, to communism, and to fascism; and the reformulation of liberal, conservative, and radical thought in the later twentieth century. Previously offered as 626 and 641.
HIST 642: Modern European Intellectual History II
3
Credits
An introduction to major themes and methods in the study of modern European intellectual history. Emphasis on contextual approaches, on the history of social and political thought, and on the social and political roles of intellectuals. First semester covers the period from the mid-seventeenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries; explorations of works by Hobbes, Locke, Voltaire, Hume, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, the Romantics, Hegel, Marx, Mill, and others. Second semester covers the period from the late nineteenth century to the present, beginning with the critique of liberalism and rationalism in the works of Nietzsche, Pareto, and Freud; examines Durkheim, Weber, and the rise of sociology; the intellectual reaction to the First World War, to communism, and to fascism; and the reformulation of liberal, conservative, and radical thought in the later twentieth century. Previously offered as 626 and 641.
HIST 643: Medieval Monasticism
3
Credits
Designed as an introduction to the bibliography of and original research in published and unpublished records of medieval monasticism (fifth to twelfth centuries). Participants investigate sources involving several important aspects of this field of medieval history: intellectual, religious, political, economic, and social. Students required to participate in weekly discussions, to contribute oral presentations, and to write one research paper of 15-20 typewritten pages.
HIST 644: Topics in Modern Britain
3
Credits
This course provides an overview of major topics and methods of the historiography of Britain since 1750. Emphasis will be upon cultural, social, and political approaches to the study of history.
HIST 645: Power, Patronage and Propaganda in the Early Modern World
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 645A: Imperial Austria, 1740 - 1850
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 647: Religious Interpretation and Cultural Criticism in Modern Europe
3
Credits
This course examines the links between biblical criticism, challenging interpretations of Christianity, and political and cultural criticism. We examine why leading political analysts and cultural critics felt compelled to offer interpretations of the Bible and its significance, and why religious thinkers offered new interpretations of the meaning of Christianity (and its links to or distance from Judaism) in light of changing historical understandings. The focus is on the nineteenth century, but to put it in historical context, we will first look at how these issues were addressed by major thinkers from Hobbes through Kant. We then focus on comparing the analyses of Christianity and its relationship to modern culture in the work of John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold and Friedrich Nietzsche.
HIST 648: Women and Gender in Modern Europe
3
Credits
Provides an introduction to the methodology and historiography of women and gender in the European context. Readings encompass social, political, and cultural approaches to the writing of women's and gender history.
HIST 649: Citizenship in Britain
3
Credits
The subject of class has become a contentious one in modern Britain, no longer the primary category of historical analysis. Explores "the fall of class" and the rise of new categories, specifically of gender and citizenship, in the writing of modern British political and cultural history.
HIST 650: Race and American Society,1607 to the Present
3
Credits
During the past quarter-century, historians have produced a rich literature on the social construction of race in America and the protracted American struggle over the meaning and significance of race in an ever more pluralistic society. This course examines some of the most accomplished and innovative examples of this literature from the colonial era to the present.
HIST 651: Race, Culture and Politics in 20th Century U.S.
3
Credits
Examines what W.E.B. DuBois famously called "the problem of the color line," both in terms of its cultural manifestations and the growing impact on politics. Topics range ffrom the social dynamics of the Jim Crow system to the civil rights movements to electoral politics at the close of the twentieth century.
HIST 652: Gender and Sexuality: North America and Europe
3
Credits
Explores recent work on North America and Europe from the seventeenth through the eighteenth century in Europe is often called the Age of Absolutism. The final stage of that age--known as Reformed Absolutism or Enlightened Despotism--widely occurred from Portugal in the west to Russia in the east, but concentrated in Central Europe. Principally examines transformations in the state, political geography, and culture in the Austrian monarchy, Prussia, and Russia after 1740.
HIST 653: Antebellum U.S. History, 1789-1848
3
Credits
Covers major historiographical arguments and developments during the period from the Constitutional compromise to the war with Mexico. Topics include the decline of the republican synthesis; the impact of internal migration on the people, the land, and the economy; and the rise and fall of party systems as connected to the making of modern democratic society.
HIST 654: Religion and Society in Early America
3
Credits
This graduate seminar focuses on an enduring and protean theme in American life: religion. Religious movements were central to much of the migration to the English colonies in the New World, and many historians have argued that religious revivals were catalysts for some of the momentous events in American history, including the American Revolution and the Civil War. Focusing on the connections between religion and politics, family life, and culture, the course surveys the classics as well as the most important recent literature and engages in some of the current debates in the historiography.
HIST 656: Topics in Colonial Society and Thought
3
Credits
Explores historical works concerning subjects such as popular religion, family structure, work rhythms, gender relations, ecology, and slavery in the British colonies. Special attention to Puritan New England and the early Chesapeake.
HIST 657: Political Culture in Revolutionary America
3
Credits
Explores one of the most dramatic and formative eras in American history. Emphasizes politics, constitutionalism, and political culture. Course materials seek to understand the Constitution of the United States both as a process of crafting a frame of government and as a process of defining and contesting notions of citizenship and national identity. Readings focus on eighteenth-century North America, but also include comparative perspectives.
HIST 658: Political Development in Nineteenth Century America
3
Credits
1789-1896. An investigation of the development of the American political system in all its facets. Concentration on the idea and practice of democratic government; the origins, demise, and rebirth of the party system; the rise of mass political participation; and the demise of the second party system; the Civil War polity; and the Populist Revolt.
HIST 659: American Frontiers 1850-1920
3
Credits
Examines the contributions of America's southern and western frontiers in the continuing development of the American character and identity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Examines such issues as geographical expansion, varied ethnic and religious populations, family and community, and the legacy of slavery and Native American policies in the context of the emerging American identity and state formation. Examines historical interpretations in a topical and chronological manner, concluding with current historical understanding of the American frontier's role in defining what is America and American.
HIST 660: Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction
3
Credits
This colloquium explores the causes, course, and consequences of the
American Civil War. We will examine topics including: the politics of
pro- and anti-slavery and the sectional crisis of the 1850s; military
events and political affairs during the war; the experiences of
Americans on the battlefield and the home front; the destruction of
slavery; and the post-war reconstruction of the South and the nation.
HIST 661: Readings in American Religious History
3
Credits
Reading, analysis and discussion of important recent books and articles on various aspects of American religious history, including material from every chronological period of the American past. Also includes a variety of religious traditions: readings cover several variants of Protestantism, as well as Roman Catholicism, Judaism and Islam. Students who wish to read more widely will be able to do so.
HIST 662: The Gilded Age
3
Credits
Industrialization, immigration, and urbanization created new and increasingly complex social problems in America at the end of the nineteenth century. Examines the major themes in American social thinking, in particular the writings of Social Darwinists, Utopians, and Progressives up until the end of the First World War.
HIST 663: Immigration and Ethnicity in America, 1840-1970
3
Credits
Focuses on immigrants who came to America in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and their American-born children and grandchildren. Concentrates mostly on immigrants from Europe and their descendants, but includes discussions of Latino Americans and Asian Americans. Readings address such issues as immigrant life in the old world, causes and processes of immigration, adjustments made in the new world, family life and gender roles, group identities and boundaries, religious beliefs and practices, and participation in labor movements and politics.
HIST 664: American Cultural History 1877-1929
3
Credits
Examines urban industrial culture in late nineteenth-century America, which was characterized by the changing nature of time and speed, the rise of leisure and decline of religion, the changing roles of men and women, and a new environment of steel and glass which changed the way people thought and interacted. Explores urban Victorian culture in America.
HIST 665A: US Legal History
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 670: Slavery in America
3
Credits
Explores the rich and varied methods historians have developed to grapple with this crucial aspect of United States history. Emphasis on changing approaches to such basic issues as labor relations; the family, sexuality, and gender; the construction of racial identities; religion, music, material culture, and other aspects of cultural exchange and conflict. Readings focus on servitude and freedom in the U.S., including theoretical frameworks and comparative perspectives.
HIST 672: Readings in Atlantic History
3
Credits
This graduate readings course will introduce students to the burgeoning field of Atlantic history, examining interactions between the peoples of Europe, Africa and the Americas during the early modern period. The course will be comparative in focus, treating such topics as European perceptions if the New World; the construction and dissolution of empires; transatlantic religious communties; the movement of goods and people across the ocean; and the history of slavery. Throughout the semester we will assess the strengths and weaknesses of global approaches to history, asking exactly what the "Atlantic approach" adds to traditional interpretations of the European, American, and African past.
HIST 673: The Irish in America
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 673A: Nazism
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 674: Old Regime France and the French Revolution
3
Credits
This course will examine the structure of the old regime and the attempt by the French Revolution to remake society and government. The interaction between culture and politics will be highlighted throughout the course, which will focus on public opinion, secularism, religion, and the creation of conservative resistance. Particular attention will be paid to the historiographical debates over the causes and consequences of the French Revolution.
HIST 675: Revolutionary America: 1740-1820
3
Credits
How revolutionary was the American Revolution? Survey of the rich historiography of this crucial period, taking a broad view of politics, society, and culture. Throughout, interplay between change and continuity remains central concern.
HIST 676: History of the New South:1865-1919
3
Credits
Examines important works and historiographical debates about the history of the U.S. South from Reconstruction through the Progressive Era. Topics include: post-emancipation struggles between white and black Southerners over the meaning of freedom; the emergence of sharecropping and the limits of economic development; Populism; white supremacy in the era of disenfranchisement, Jim Crow, and lynching; and Progressivism in the South.
HIST 677: Gender in American History
3
Credits
This readings course will examine representative works in U.S. "gender history." The assigned books and articles cover the period from the mid seventeenth to the mid twentieth century. They examine the "construction of gender" and its consequences in a variety of social and political contexts. Students may, with the permission of the instructor, take this course as a seminar in U.S. gender history.
HIST 678: Byzantine History Writers
3
Credits
Examines Byzantine chronicles, encyclopedias, classicizing histories, family histories and epic histories written in the tenth through twelfth centuries. Emphasis is on understanding the texts as works of literature and the contexts of their production.
HIST 679: Medieval Hagiography
3
Credits
Examines writings about saints and sanctity in the Middle Ages. Moving from the Bollandists, and the emergence of hagiography as a scientific discipline, studies the saint's life not only as a genre of literature but as it has been used in recent years, as a source for historians.
HIST 680: The American Catholic Experience,1789-1970
3
Credits
An examination of the social history of American Catholicism. Emphasis on the expansion of the American Catholic Church through immigration and westward expansion during the nineteenth century, as well as the cultural legacy of distinct strains of European Catholicism on both urban and rural regions of the United States.
HIST 681: Politics and Religion: Early Modern Europe
3
Credits
The strengthening of European states during the late-sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was accompanied by religious divisions and by a proliferation of messianic and millenarian expectations. Analyzes the relationship between political developments, religious polemics, and messianic and millenarian traditions in England, the Dutch Republic, Spain, and Portugal. Topics include imperial rivalries in their political and religious contexts; independence movements in the Dutch Republic, Spain, and Portugal; the development of biblical criticism; and the readmission of Jews to England. Readings focus on primary sources, especially prophetic treatises, political theory, and official documents.
HIST 681A: The Family in Early Modern Europe
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 682: Shaping Population:Fertility,Contraception,Eugenics and Population Policy in W Europe&US 1880-1970
3
Credits
The decline of fertility in late nineteenth and twentieth century Europe and the United States is one of the most striking and significant phenomena of the age. Why it came about, how it was perceived, and how churches, intellectuals, social movements, and government reacted to it is the subject of this graduate colloquium.
HIST 683: Investiture Controversy
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 684: Religion and Culture in Latin America
3
Credits
Readings course examining the missionary efforts of the sixteenth century, and the political, social, economic, and cultural roles of religious institutions in Latin America to 1810.
HIST 685: Religion and Society in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Latin America
3
Credits
Focuses on the recent historical literature related to changes in Church-State relations; the effect of social and political modernization on Catholic ecclesiastical structures, clergy and communities; Protestantism; black religious practice; and popular religious phenomenon.
HIST 686: Modern Mexico
3
Credits
Readings course examining economic, social, and political development of Mexico, 1810-1940.
HIST 687: Latin America: Colonial Institutions
3
Credits
Readings course analyzing the economic, social, and political institutions of Colonial Spanish America. Emphasis on current trends in the literature.
HIST 688: Race, Family and Class in Latin America, 1850-1930
3
Credits
Analysis of traditional family and class structures in Latin America and the impact of commercial development during the nineteenth century on these institutions. Topics include family reconstruction, role of women, impact of slavery and abolition, urbanization, and immigration. Concentration on Mexico.
HIST 689: Cultural Frontiers: Mexico and the United States Southwest, 1850-1930
3
Credits
Is there a border culture that joins the northern states of Mexico to the southwestern states of the United States? A look at the meaning of political frontiers after 1848 and a comparison of the development of the northern states of Mexico and the states of the Southwestern United States. Themes include comparative patterns of immigration, relations between Hispanic, Indigenous and Anglo-Saxon communities, political and economic connections within the border region, and cultural relations.
HIST 690: Intellectual History of Latin America: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
3
Credits
Focuses on Latin American essayists from the post-independence period to the 1940s. Topics include development of national identity in the new nations; Latin American literature and art; and comparative history of Brazil and Spanish America.
HIST 692: Readings on Later Medieval Italy
3
Credits
An introduction to the recent scholarship on later medieval Italy, focusing on the twelfth through fourteenth centuries. Through the lenses of politics, religion, society, law, and economy, along with a variety of approaches, we will examine both Italy's distinctiveness and continuity in relation to Northern European institutions. Topics include communal politics, civic religion, women and family, the commercial revolution, violence and vendetta, literacy and patronage.
HIST 694: The Iberian World, 1500-1800
3
Credits
An analysis of central themes in the political, cultural, and religious history of Spain, Portugal, and their empires. Topics include the political and economic history of late-medieval Iberia; the Catholic church in the Iberian world; the establishment of the Inquisition and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain; the conquest and settlement of the Spanish and Portuguese empires in America and in Asia; slavery and the slave trade; the relationship between European, Indian and African cultures in America; and the comparative history of Brazil and Spanish America.
HIST 694A: Readings in Early Islamic History
3
Credits
Based on readings in contemporary historiography, this course seeks to set the emergence of Islam within the context of Late Antique religious change and sketch the development of Islamic religion and government up to the tenth century.
HIST 695: Latin America: 20th Century Revolutions
3
Credits
Examines literature related to economic and political change from 1900 to 1970. Particular emphasis will be given to the Mexican Revolution, the Cuban Revolution, and the political and social implications of the emergence of modern industrial societies in Brazil, Argentina and Chile.
HIST 696: Comparative Theories of Empire
3
Credits
Analyzes British, French, Spanish, and Portuguese theories of empire. Focuses on primary sources, including political, legal and religious treatises on European expansion.
HIST 697: Portugal and Brazil,1415-1806
3
Credits
The course explores central themes in the history of Portugal and Brazil from the foundation of the Portuguese empire to Brazilian independence. Topics will include Portuguese social and political history under the Aviz, Habsburg, and Braganca dynasties; European perceptions of Brazil during the colonial period; the missionary church and its relations with Portuguese settlers, Indians and Africans in Brazil; the Portuguese Inquisition; the bandeirantes and the exploration of the Brazilian interior; the history of slavery in the Luso-Brazilian empire; and the comparative history of colonial Brazil and Spanish America.
HIST 698: Colloquium: Council of Trent
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 699: Readings in Latin American History
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 701: Internship
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 798: Student/Faculty Research
1
Credits
Directed Research on a specific topic defined by an instructor.
HIST 802: Seminar: Bede
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 803: Seminar:Pope Gregory VII
3
Credits
Revolutionary or Saint? Gregory VII (1073-1085), the great successor of Saint Peter, will be studied through his own writings (letters and sermons), with particular emphasis on the Dictatus Papae and the canonstic background of the famous document that relates to the Donation of Contantine. Much of the material is accessible in translation, as is the most recent historiography.
HIST 805: Narrative Sources in Medieval England
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 806: Seminar: Investiture Controversy
3
Credits
Emphasis on the study of original sources in the fields of literature, liturgy, administration, theology, and hagiography in Latin Christendom. Assumes some prior knowledge of eleventh-century European and Papal history. Requires research paper.
HIST 807: Seminar: Crusaders and Colonies
3
Credits
This seminar will examine the kingdoms and principalities established by Latin Crusaders in the eastern Mediterranean and western Asia in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, including the Kingdom of Jerusalem, Latin Empire of Constantinople, Principality of the Morea, Kingdom of Cyprus et al; with particular focus on discovering how European institutions and cultural ideas were modified when brought to the east and how indigenous institutions and ideas were affected by the Crusaders. Student research projects may explore various aspects of the Crusader states including cultural, social, legal, institutional, military or economic. The class also will explore whether the vocabulary of colonization may be appropriately and helpfully applied to the Crusader States.
HIST 808: Carolingian France
3
Credits
An examination of the sources and historiography relating to the consolidation of the Frankish Empire with a focus on politics, religion, and economics. Some material will be read and analyzed in the Latin original.
HIST 808A: The Carolingian Empire
3
Credits
This seminar will explore key themes in the development of the Carolingian Empire, including the cultural expansion known as the Carolingian Renaissance, the political innovations of the Carolingian rulers, and the contribution of archaeology to our understanding of the economic basis of the Carolingian world. The course will also serve to introduce students to the main source collections and research tools used by early medieval historians. Students will undertake a research project of their own devising related to the themes of the course and drawing on the source collections and tools introduced during the course. A reading of knowledge of Latin is required.
HIST 809: Seminar:Early Medieval History
3
Credits
Topic examples: the Church in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; the Gregorian reform movement; investiture controversy; Pope Innocent III; the spread of heresy; the evolution of canon law; the twelfth century in the Latin West; councils and reforms, 843-1123; Carolingian society and culture.
HIST 810: Seminar: Later Medieval History
3
Credits
Topic examples: the Church in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; the Gregorian reform movement; investiture controversy; Pope Innocent III; the spread of Heresy; the evolution of canon law; the twelfth century in the Latin West; councils and reforms, 843-1123; Carolingian society and culture.
HIST 811: Seminar: Medieval France
3
Credits
Focuses on research in original sources of medieval France from the earliest period to the Capetians, with emphasis on methodology. Participants may work in any of several fields: politics, church history, economics, social classes, liturgy.
HIST 812: Seminar: Medieval English Society and Economic History
3
Credits
Topics include rural social structure, agriculture and manorial economy, urban growth and decline, law (including crime, disorder, property, and disputes), and demographic change. Emphasis upon thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries and upon criticism of original sources (with some paleography if appropriate).
HIST 813: Seminar: English Law and Society,1250-1600
3
Credits
Deals with two connected themes: the nature and implications of law within English society during the late Middle Ages, and the methodological and historiographical uses of legal sources as a means of studying English social and economic history during that period. Begins with standard secondary literature outlining the evolution of common, customary, and canon law and the corresponding courts from the twelfth century; then the class simultaneously reads original court documents (in microfilm or other facsimile from wherever possible) and recent secondary literature utilizing the same types of records. Primary goal: production of an article-length study based on a particular court record.
Note: Some background in Latin paleography is a prerequisite for the seminar; admission is solely by permission of instructor, who should be consulted ahead of time regarding participation.
HIST 814: Seminar: Medieval Heresy and Dissent
3
Credits
Research seminar; examines heresy and dissent in western culture, with special emphasis on the relationship between authority, institution, and society. Examines such problems as the relation of heresy and dissent to social and economic problems, heresy's alliance with reform movements, and heresy as a force against which orthodox Christendom defined itself.
HIST 815: Seminar: Medieval Law
3
Credits
The Canon Law and the Common Law: a comparative analysis.
HIST 816: Seminar: Geographical Methods
3
Credits
A basic introduction to geographical analysis and information display, and their applications to historical research, with an emphasis on computer mapping and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) using MapInfo software. Students should begin the course with a research project already in mind, chosen for its geographical content and applications (if in doubt, consult with instructor during previous semester). Open to graduate students in all periods and areas of history. Prerequisite: Background in computers and quantitative methods, by prior approval of instructor.
HIST 817: Council of Trent
3
Credits
Seminar on the background, debates, decrees, and implementation of the Council of Trent (1545-63).
HIST 818: Seminar: Southern France
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 819: Seminar: Byzantium and the West
3
Credits
This seminar will examine the cultural, economic, military and religious conflicts and competitions between the Byzantine Empire and elements of Latin Christendom in the eleventh through thirteenth centuries. Potential research topics include the role of Byzantium in the Crusades; realities of cultural differences between Greek and Latin medieval society; Latin expansion into the Eastern Mediterranean; the roles of economic and cultural competition in the development of medieval society east and west.
HIST 820: Colonies and Empires
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 821: Post war American Conservatism
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 822: Medieval Italy
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 823: Gender and Asceticism in the Early Middle Ages
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 824: The 'Ascetic Imperative' in the Middle Ages
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 825: Seminar: Byzantine Ethics, 800-1300
3
Credits
Selected readings in Byzantine Greek texts and historical analysis.
HIST 826: Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe
3
Credits
The history of medicine is one of the newest research fields in the discipline. Until recently, however, most historical research has been conducted by the physicians themselves and the agenda for research has largely been set by institutional interest in the medical profession and private medical and pharmaceutical corporations. Although the material achievements of medicine should not be denied, historians now routinely apply their skills of critical judgement to reveal the medical profession in a more human light. Historians (and medical anthropologists) remind us that, in addition to its empirical component, the practice of medicine also has important moral, political, and social and cultural dimensions.
HIST 827: Seminar: US Intellectual History
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 832: Seminar: Renaissance and Reformation
3
Credits
Among topics considered: conciliarism, the papacy, Erasmus and his critics, Reformation in Italy, colloquies between Protestants and Catholics, Trent.
HIST 833: Seminar: Issues in Renaissance Religion
3
Credits
Research into religious experience and its expressions in Western Europe during the Renaissance period c. 1320-1520--whether clerical or lay, group or individual, orthodox or heretical.
HIST 839: Seminar: Early Modern European Society
3
Credits
Focuses on a different topic each year it is offered. All topics considered in comparative perspective, within the context of Western Europe between the late Middle Ages and the French Revolution. Interdisciplinary approach informs the course material. Topics considered include comparative aristocracies, revolts, rebellions and revolutions; political culture in an early modern perspective; and state making.
HIST 840: Seminar: Modern German History
3
Credits
A research seminar on Germany and German-speaking central Europe in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with an emphasis on intellectual and cultural history.
HIST 841: Great Works of Modern Social Thought
3
Credits
This course examines the great works of modern social science, form Hobbes, Leviathan through Freud's Interpretation of Dreams, works of ongoing interest and influence that have achieved the status of classics. Each work is studied in its historical context, with an eye to bringing out the themes of perennial interest for the study of history, society, politics, economics, psychology and culture. Students produce a research paper on one or more of the selected thinkers.
HIST 842: Seminar: Capitalism In Modern European Thought
3
Credits
Explores the ways in which European intellectuals, political movements, and churches from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries have conceived of the moral, cultural, and political effects of the market.
HIST 843: The Medieval Monarchy
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 844: Political History of the Middle Ages
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 846: Seminar: Politics and Culture in Modern Britain
3
Credits
Designed to introduce students to current issues in modern British political and cultural history. Focuses on political languages and expression, and on the formation of political ideologies and communities of opinion. Students participate in ongoing discussions of common texts and complete a research project based on substantive primary research.
HIST 847: Byzantine Religion
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 849: Asceticism In Merovingian Gaul
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 851: Seminar: North Atlantic World
3
Credits
The emergence of an Atlantic world in the early modern period connected Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans in new dynamics of trade, warfare, migration, labor, and cultural exchange. Common readings will focus on a variety of contemporary sources and are designed to facilitate a wide range of research projects. Alongside the imaginative literature by which Europeans sought to make sense of this emerging Atlantic world, we will explore state papers about colonial policy; travel narratives about Ireland, the Levant, and Africa as well as North America; and documents that illuminate the changing visions and experiences of native peoples, immigrant Africans, and colonial settlers.
HIST 853: Seminar: Race and Politics in American History
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 854: Research Seminar: Immigration and Ethnicity
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 856: Seminar: Colonial Society and Thought
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 857: Seminar: Citizenship and Identity in North America
3
Credits
Designed to accommodate a variety of research topics concerning the relationship between individual senses of self, constructed communities, and the body politic in a period which many historians identify as crucial to the emergence of modern notions of nationalism, class, gender, race, religion, community, and sexuality. Common readings highlight current debates and model methods of analysis.
HIST 860: Seminar: Antebellum America
3
Credits
Topic examples: The coming of the Civil War, the South in the new nation, politics and reform in antebellum America, the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
HIST 860A: Seminar: 19th Century US
3
Credits
no description available
HIST 861: Seminar: Civil War and Reconstruction
3
Credits
Covers the years from 1845 to 1877; especially concerned with the relationship between the military world of the North and South and the social consequences of military actions for the people and the economy. The politics and political culture of warfare are also stressed.
HIST 870: Seminar: Modern American History
3
Credits
Offers students an opportunity to research a variety of topics pertaining to politics, culture, and society in the twentieth-century United States. Possible research subjects include the changing nature of liberalism, radicalism, and conservatism; the rise and fall of the labor movement; the emergence of a strong national state; the character of American nationalism and patriotism; the social experience of class, ethnicity, race, and gender.
HIST 879: Seminar: War and Society: America, 1880-1945
3
Credits
Explores the relationship between American industrial, commercial, diplomatic, naval, and military developments during a sixty-year period prior to World War II. Treats such issues as the rise of the United States to the status of a world power by the end of the Spanish-American war and its subsequent involvement in issues which led to World Wars I and II. American society and its approach to the problems of world leadership gradually were transformed by a series of events during periods of peace and war.
HIST 885: Seminar: Latin America, Society and Culture
3
Credits
Topics include revolutions in the twentieth century, religion and culture, urbanization and colonial society.
HIST 981: Directed Reading
3
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HIST 984: Folger Seminar
0
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HIST 991: Directed Reading
3
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HIST 992: Directed Reading
3
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HIST 993: Directed Research
3
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HIST 994: Directed Research
3
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HIST 995: Thesis - Masters
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HIST 996: Thesis - Masters
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HIST 997: Dissertation Doctoral
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HIST 998: Dissertation - Doctoral
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