Graduate Courses
The following is a list of the seminars we have offered in
the past. Our list of seminars is, of course, tailored to suit the needs of our
present graduate students, so some of these may not be repeated.
HIST 534 - CIVILIZING
MISSIONS
Credits: 4
The development of "civilizing missions" legitimized territorial and
spiritual conquest and validated the suppression of subject customs, cultures,
and religions. Course will explore the idea which became an integral part of
imperial, religious, and national ideologies. Readings include (in translation)
modern historical, geographical, legal, ethnographic, religious, and literary
texts.
HIST 537 - COMPARATIVE
EMPIRES
Credits: 4
Graduate seminar examines Roman and Ottoman notions of empire, European and
Eastern historiography of empire in the 18 & 19th centuries, and imperial
practice as it was conceived and carried out in both the Ottoman and British
contexts (focusing primarily, but not exclusively, on Egypt and India).
HIST
538 BEAUTY & THE BODY Camp, S.
Credits: 4
Class explores what bodies have meant in the West, especially the United
States, how beauty has been idealized, how those meanings and ideals have
changed over time, and why. Work will move between the study of bodily norms
and ideals as promulgated by the powerful and self-presentation by the ordinary
HIST 539 ORIGINS OF AFRO AMERICA Alexander
Byrd
Credits: 4
Graduate research seminar focused on central issues in the articulation of
black society, culture, and labor in the Americas from the 15th century to the
early 19th century
HIST 540 -
INDUSTRIALIZATING AMERICA
Credits: 4
Seminar will examine, through readings and discussion, the transformation of
the United States under the impact of industrialization from 1870 through World
War I. Topics include labor, immigration, feminism, the social gospel,
Progressivism, the Great Migration of African Americans from the South, and the
rise and fall of Victorian culture.
HIST 541 - HISTORY OF
THE MODERN SOUTH
Credits: 4
Seminar designed to introduce graduate students to historiographic background,
sources, and methods for conducting primary research in post-1865 southern U.S.
history. Topics will include, but not be limited to: labor, politics, and civil
rights. Research paper required.
HIST 542 - THE
RENAISSANCE IN EUROPEAN HISTORY
Credits: 4
Graduate version of HIST 442: Seminar examines major approaches to and
interpretations of the European Renaissance (the period from about 1350-1600)
and then analyzes the place that this era came to occupy in our understanding
of "western civilization" and of European history generally.
HIST 543 TOPICS
MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY Lora
Wildenthal
Credits: 4
INTERPRETING NAZISM : Graduate research seminar explores the ongoing history of
how Europeans and Americans interpreted Nazism during the "Third
Reich" and since 1945.
Through older works of scholarship as well as the most recent (all in
English or in translation), we will examine decades of debates over how to
understand the nature of Nazism and their implications for theorizing the past
and for public history. Students
will write a research paper using primary sources. U.S. history students will be able to pursue topics using
English-language sources, such as those from the U.S. occupation's
understanding of Nazism; works by émigré scholars, histories of U.S. museums,
etc.
HIST 544 - MAX WEBER
Credits: 4
Graduate seminar, examines sociologist Max Weber in context. Focus on: Weber's
methodology and notion of the "ideal type"; modernization theory; the
typologies of religious and political understanding; political sociology; the
crisis of German liberalism in Weber's own politics.
HIST 545 - WOMEN AND
GENDER: EUROPE AND BEYOND
Credits: 4
Graduate seminar exploring recent work in key areas of research on women and
gender: nationalisms; the modern welfare state; and the challenges which
histories of working-class women have posed to definitions of politics,
feminism, class, and family. Settings will include colonial Britain, India,
Africa, Netherlands, Indonesia, France, and Germany. Cross-list: SWGS 545.
HIST 546 - KARL MARX
IN CONTEXT
Credits: 4
Graduate seminar focuses on reading key works of Marx in the context of
post-idealist philosophy, German politics, European social thought, and
industrialization. Undergraduates permitted with permission of instructor.
HIST 550 MAIN ISSUES:CARIBBEAN HISTORY Edward Cox
Credits: 4
MAIN ISSUES IN CARIBBEAN HISTORY :Examination of the major
local and international forces and ideas that have shaped the course of the
history of the Caribbean.
HIST 551 - U.S.
WOMEN'S HISTORY
Credits: 4
Graduate Seminar. Contents vary. Cross-list: SWGS 551.
HIST 552 AM SOUTH:
GENDER & SEXUALITY Stephanie Camp
Credits: 4
Class proceeds from the assumption that ideas about the roles of women, men and
sexuality inform human behavior and human societies. Questions include did
ideas about gender and sexuality shape the American South? How did notions of
gender and sexuality interact with ideas about race?
HIST 553 - HUMAN
RIGHTS
Credits: 4
Graduate seminar will explore the history of human rights through disciplines
of anthropology and legal philosophy as well as historical case studies of
individual states and human rights organizations.
HIST 559 - MIGRATION
AND DISPLACEMENT IN MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY
Credits: 4
Seminar investigates the historiography of migration in European history, from
the point of view of labor immigration, forced displacement and political
exile. Exploration of how nation-states have invited, categorized, regulated
and repelled various types of European migrants since the end of the 19th
century.
HIST 560 - AFRICAN
AMERICAN STUDIES RESEARCH SEMINAR
Credits: 4
Interdisciplinary graduate research seminar in African American studies.
Contents vary. Cross-list: RELI 552.
HIST 561 - GRADUATE
TOPICS IN EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
Credits: 4
Graduate research seminar on selected themes in European intellectual history.
Contents vary. Reading knowledge of German is not required, but definitely
advantageous.
HIST 562 - SHAPING OF
THE POST-WAR ORDER, 1945-1955
Credits: 4
Seminar examines how a new "post-war order" emerged in the U.S. and
Western Europe during the decade following WWII. Emphasis on international and
domestic features: rise of international institutions, welfare states and
planning, ethnic cleansing and population management, effects of the Marshall
Plan and Americanization, European integration and race relations.
HIST 564 - EARLY
AMERICA, 1607-1800
Credits: 4
Study of major works on the English colonies of North America, as well as
topics of particular interest to individual students from 1607 - 1800
HIST 566 NORTH AMERICA, 1500-1800 Rebecca
Goetz
Credits 4:
Overview of historical literature pertaining to British North America and the
Atlantic World from 1500-1800.
Related topics in Spanish and French North America also considered
HIST 567 - RACE IN EARLY
AMERICA
Credits: 4
Graduate research seminar focusing on the complicated and often perilous
history of race as a concept in early North America.
HIST 568 - POST-1945
U.S. HISTORY Matusow
Credits: 4
Readings seminar for graduate students on post-1945 United States history.
HIST 569 - RACE,
LABOR, AND REGION IN AMERICAN HISTORY
Credits: 4
Graduate seminar focusing on the struggle over jobs, equality, and civil rights
in both the American South and the Southwest, from the 1880s to the 1960s. Readings
will allow comparisons of Mexican-American, African-American and white working
class experiences.
HIST 570 - 20TH
CENTURY AMERICAN CONSERVATION MOVEMENT
Credits: 4
Exploration of the American conservation movement from Pres. Theodore
Roosevelt, Sierra Club founder John Muir, and Chief of the U.S. Forest Service
Gifford Pinchot to naturalists John Burrough and John Perkins Marsh - focusing
on their work in context of current issues in global warming, and wetlands
restoration.
HIST 571 - TOPICS IN
MODERN FRENCH HISTORY
Credits: 4
Readings seminar for graduate students in modern French history. Contents vary.
HIST 573 TOPICS 20TH
C AM POLITICS Douglas
Brinkley
Credits: 4
Graduate seminar on topics in 20th century American politics. Contents vary.
HIST
575 INTRO TO DOCTORAL STUDIES Zammito, J.
Credits: 4
Introduction to a range of methodological and theoretical approaches to
historical research, as well as to important current debates about the nature
of historical investigation and interpretation.
Seminar. Instructor permission
required.
HIST 576 - TOPICS IN
U.S. WOMEN'S HISTORY
Credits: 4
Graduate seminar. Contents vary.
HIST
577 PEDAGOGY SEMINAR Wildenthal,
L.
Credits: 2
For ABD students who intend to teach.
HIST 578 - GRADUATE
TOPICS IN SOUTHERN HISTORY
Credits: 4
Graduate reading seminar will entail in-depth examination of the historiography
of particular issues in the history of the American South. Topics will vary.
HIST
580 THE LUSO-ATLANTIC WORLD Metcalf, A.
Credits: 4
Graduate seminar traces the rise of Brazil in the south Atlantic of the
16th-19th centuries. Topics include: discoveries and encounters, go-betweens
and colonization, slavery and the slave trade, the rise of sugar coffee
plantations, patters of family life, the development of frontiers, religion,
and the abolition of slavery.
HIST 581 BRITISH
& IMPERIAL HISTORY, I Martin
Wiener
Credits: 4
Reading seminar in British and Imperial History. Open to all graduate students.
Required for graduate students in British history.
HIST
582 BRITISH & IMPERIAL HISTORY, II Wiener, M.
Credits: 4
continuation of HIST 581.
HIST 583 SOUTHERN HISTORY John Boles
Credits:
4
Graduate seminar on religion and slavery in the Old South.
HIST 584 - THE EARLY
SOUTH, 1600 - 1800
Credits: 4
Graduate research seminar focusing on the southern portions of colonial British
North America.
HIST
587 METHODS/U.S.CULTURAL HISTORY Wm. Caleb McDaniel
Credits: 4
Research seminar on American cultural/intellectual history, with emphasis on
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Contents vary. Research paper required.
HIST 588 19TH CENTURY
AMERICA Wm. Caleb
McDaniel
Credits: 4
Graduate readings seminar on American history from the early republic to World
War I. Contents vary
HIST 589 - HISTORIOGRAPHY
OF MAU MAU
Credits: 4
Graduate reading seminar on the historiography of Mau Mau.
HIST
590 INTRODUCTION TO WORLD
HISTORY Ward, K.
Credits: 4
Graduate reading seminar in world history
HIST
595 THE AMERICAN SOUTH Boles, J.
Credits: 4
Graduate reading seminar on major scholarly literature of southern history.
Includes readings, discussions, and a major paper on historiographical topic
decided in consultation with the instructor.
HIST 800 - PH.D.
RESEARCH
Credits: Hours Variable
Research for doctoral dissertation.
HIST 509 - DIRECTED
READINGS
Credits: 4
Graduate level, independent readings course. Not a seminar. Topics
vary.
HIST 510 - DIRECTED
READINGS
Credits: 4
Graduate level, independent reading course. Not a seminar. Topics
vary.