Spring 2005 Course Descriptions
500 Level
HIS 502 - African American History: Selected Topics
M 7:00-9:50
Loren Schweninger
Examination of the African American experience from its beginning in Africa, through the slave trade, slavery in the Caribbean, Central and South America, British North America, the Gulf Coast, and the United States. Includes discussions of free people of color in the Americas, free women of color in the United States South, and free blacks in the North and South during the antebellum era as well as an analysis of emancipation during the Civil War.
HIS 511A - Seminar in Historical Research and Writing
R 4:00-6:50
Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie
Writing and Speaking Intensive. Permission of the department required.
Reconstruction is one of the most complicated periods in US history. It is also one of the most controversial. When did Reconstruction begin? What was the difference between Presidential and Congressional Reconstruction and why did one replace the other? Was this era a pivotal moment in shifting property relations? What role did former slaves play in Reconstruction? Was Reconstruction a glorious moment, or a tragic failure? How does this period fit within the broader dimensions of US history as well as compare with the reconstruction of other post-emancipation societies?
HIS 511C - Seminar in Historical Research and Writing
"Popular Protest in Chinese History"
W 7:00-9:50
Jamie Anderson
Writing and Speaking Intensive. Permission
of the department required.
This course will examine the nature of popular protest in Chinese history. Topics examined during the semester will include the role religion played as a source of social volatility in traditional Chinese culture and society, peasant revolutions, the May Fourth Movement, popular protest in the rise of nationalism and communism, and domestic political protest since the 1949 founding of the People�s Republic of China. Most importantly, students in this course will be responsible for individual research projects, for which they will locate and use historical source materials, written and oral, published and unpublished. Comparing and analyzing a variety of primary source materials, students will write their own histories of Chinese popular protest and in the end develop their skills in observing societies with different origins than their own.
HIS 520 - Southern History: Selected Topics
MW 2:00-3:15
Watson Jennison
Selected topics in the history of the American south from the colonial origins to our time. Examples include politics, education, economic development reform, race, and gender.
HIS 541 - Ancient World: Selected Topics
MWF 12:00-12:50
Stephen Ruzicka
Varying topics in ancient Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman history, including politics and public rituals, patterns of social organization, ancient slavery, cross-cultural interactions. May be repeated once for credit when topic varies.
HIS 547 - History Museum Curatorship: Collections Management
R 7:00-9:50
Jon Zachman
Professional practices in the care and management of historic site and history museum collections, including priniciples of collection development, object registration, cataloging, and preservation. Same as IAR 547.
HIS 548 - Architectural Conservation
T 2-4:50
Jo Leimenstoll
Overview of contemporary architectural conservation principles, practice and technology. A series of field exercises, group projects and investigation of an individual research topic expand upon lectures and readings. Same as IAR 548.
HIS 567 - French History, Selected Topics
"The Enlightenment and the French Revolution"
TR 12:30-13:45
Paul Mazgaj
This course will focus, first, on that major eighteenth-century shift in intellectual and cultural perspectives known as the French Enlightenment. After an attempt to define the Enlightenment against the backdrop of traditionalist assumptions, we will consider various interpretations of the Enlightenment (from Peter Gay�s defense of it as a �recovery of nerve� to Michel Foucault�s critique as the origins of the �disciplinary society�). Second, we will take on the French Revolution. We will be concerned, first, with a brief narrative account of the events of the Revolution before examining the great historiographical debate that has engaged several generations of revolutionary historians.
HIS 625-01 - Preservation, Planning, and Law
W 3:00-5:30
Autumn Rierson
An examination and analysis of the relationship of government programs and policies, community and regional planning strategies, and legal case precedents to the field of historic preservation. Same as IAR 625.
HIS 627 - Museum and Historic Site Interpretation: Principles and Practice
M 4:00-6:50
Kathy Franz
Theory and practice of interpreting history to the public in the context of museums and historic sites. Topics include exhibit planning and technologies, living history, research methods, and audience evaluation. Same as IAR 627.
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HIS 692 - Advanced Topics
HIS 697 - Independent Study
HIS 702 - Colloquium in American History
702-01 Lisa Levenstein T 7:00-9:50
702-02 Tom Jackson T 7:00-9:50
Written permission of the Director of Graduate Studies is required.
Issues of historical interpretation from Reconstruction to the present..
HIS 704 - Seminar in American History
704-01 Staff TBA
Written permission of the Director of Graduate Studies is required.
Research and writing on selected topics in American history.
HIS 706 - Colloquium in European History since 1789
706-01 Paul Mazgaj T 7:00-9:50
Written permission of the Director of Graduate Studies is required.
Interpretations of selected historical problems from the French Revolution to the present.
HIS 708 - Seminar in European History
708-01 Staff TBA
Written permission of the Director of Graduate Studies is required.
Research and writing on selected topics in European history.
HIS 709 - Introductory Research Seminar
709-01 Rick Barton W 7:00-9:50 (European)
709-02 Tom Jackson W 7:00-9:50 (American)
Written permission of the Director of Graduate Studies is required.
709-01 Course Description
The conquest of England by Duke William of Normandy in 1066 was one of the most significant watershed moments of the Middle Ages. William�s dramatic victory earned him a new nickname (�the Conqueror�) and ushered in changes in almost every aspect of English society. The first goal of the course will thus be to make sense of the events of the conquest and the changes wrought by it. Through careful reading of primary and secondary sources, the class will establish a common base of knowledge concerning many of these important changes, including changes in government, law and administration, changes in social organization, changes in religious administration and practice, changes in language and culture, and changes in social roles, including gender categories.
The second goal of this course is the production of a research paper (20-30 pages in length) on some aspect of Anglo-Norman England. Early assignments - including a bibliography, a source critique, a critique of a modern historian, a thematic analysis, and an oral report - are designed to develop research skills; these assignments will be tailored towards the research interests of the students who take the class, and should help to provide both the background and the skills necessary for producing a research paper. No prior knowledge of medieval history is required for this course.
709-02 Course Description
Will focus on methods, sources, and writing; research paper based on primary and contextualized in secondary sources. May be repeated once for crecit when topic varies.
HIS 710 - Colloquium in the Atlantic World
710-01 Colleen Kriger R 7:00-9:50
Written permission of the Director of Graduate Studies is required.
The Atlantic World brought together four continents � Europe, Africa, North America, and South America � into one enormous zone of human exchanges, migrations, and interactions. This course is designed to be an introduction to the history of the Atlantic trading system, with a focus on major topics in the historiography of Atlantic World studies. Examples of topics and themes that will be examined include: the Indian Ocean trade and European exploration; the rise of plantation agriculture and slave labor; Old and New Worlds � the Columbian exchange; economic development and underdevelopment; migration, gender, and demography. Landmark studies will be included in the course readings as well as important recent scholarship.
HIS 714 - Varieties of Teaching
714-01 Jeff Jones M 4:00-6:50
Written permission of the Director of Graduate Studies is required.
Introduction to college level teaching in history with attention to syllabi, lecturing, examinations, discussions, grading, and responding to student input. Students participate in teaching actual courses. (Graded on S-U basis)
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