| fullname qtr yr | Crs | Sec | Title | Instructor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aut 07 | 31101 | 01 | Science in Victorian Britain | Winter, Alison | This course examines developments in science and intellectual life in British society from the 1830s through the end of the nineteenth century, with an emphasis on the use of original sources (both as readings and during class discussion). We will explore the status of science in public culture, the rise of specialization and professionalization, the status of "heterodox" or "alternative" scientific and medical practices, and a variety of specific intellectual developments and projects, including evolution, mathematical physics, and sociology. |
| Aut 07 | 31701 | 01 | Byzantine Empire, 330-610 | Kaegi, Walter | A lecture course, with limited discussion, of the formation of early Byzantine government, society, and culture. Although a survey of event and changes, including external relations, many of the latest scholarly controversies will also receive scrutiny. There will be some discussion of relevant archaeology and topography. No prerequisite. Readings will include some primary sources in translation and examples of modern scholarly interpretations. Final examination and a short paper. Graduate students may register for grade of R (audit) or P (Pass) instead of a letter grade, except for History graduate students taking this as a required course. |
| Aut 07 | 32001 | 01 | Byzantium and Islam | Kaegi, Walter | This is a lecture and discussion course on selected Byzantine-Islamic experiences from the emergence of Islam in the seventh century through the midddle of the eleventh century. This is not a narrative survey. There is no single textbook. Topics will include diplomatic (political), military, economic, cultural, and religious relations that range from subtle influences and adaptations to open polemics. Readings will include modern scholarly interpretations as well as primary source readings in translation. No prerequisite. Final examination and short paper. |
| Aut 07 | 32203 | 01 | The Holy Roman Empire, 962-1356 | Lyon, Jonathan | During the first four centuries of its existence, the Holy Roman Empire emerged as one of the most politically and culturally heterogeneous states in all of Europe. A vast expanse of central Europe that is today divided among more than a dozen different nations was ruled at least in theory by the emperors during the High Middle Ages. The purpose of this course is to trace some of the major developments in imperial history between 962 (Emperor Otto I s coronation) and 1356 (the Golden Bull). Topics will include the changing nature of imperial authority from the Ottonians to the Habsburgs; the Church s and the nobility s establishment of quasi-independent lordships inside imperial territory; papal-imperial relations; and the eastward expansion of the empire. |
| Aut 07 | 32204 | 01 | Modern Britain 1688-1990 | Albritton Jonsson, Fredrik |
Our focus in this survey will be the vexed question of Britain's modernity from James II to Margaret Thatcher. Why and how did this island nation evolve into a global empire? Through primary sources and case studies we will emphasize the connections between empire and industry with a particular stress on problematic topics such as political stability and taxation, the 1707 union with Scotland, the emergence of classical political economy, industrialization and class consciousness, free trade imperialism, women and the origins of the welfare state. Readings will include texts by John Brewer, E.P. Thompson and Nicoletta Gullace. |
| Aut 07 | 33000 | 01 | Intellectual Property & Piracy | Johns, Adrian | Intellectual property presents some of the most pressing problems in modern science, industry, and law. This course helps students to understand why. It explains the principles of modern intellectual property, by examining their historical development over the last five hundred years. Using sources from the history of literature, art, and music as well as from modern science and information technology students will discover how piracy and property have clashed since the Renaissance, and still do so today. They will then be well-placed to address the central problem of intellectual property, and one of the most basic questions facing today's universities: what is the proper relation between creativity and commerce? |
| Aut 07 | 33810 | 01 | Sex and Gender in Russian Culture, 1830-Present | Larsen, Susan | This course traces the history of Russian debates about gender and sexuality from the 19th through the 21st centuries as registered in literary, visual, political, and material culture. Course topics include: the emergence of Russian women as writers in the 1830s; gender roles and radical politics in the 1860s and 1870s; decadent art and homoeroticism in the 1890s and 1900s; utopian social goals and revolutionary sexualities in the 1920s; shifting Soviet and post-Soviet constructions of gender and sexuality; Russian feminisms and nascent queer movements. Primary texts will include fiction, memoir, poetry, drama, political manifestos, fashion design, posters, paintings, popular song, and cinema. Short secondary readings will provide both theoretical and historical contexts. Discussions will be conducted in English. All texts will be available in both English and Russian. |
| Aut 07 | 35100 | 01 | Gender in Hist of Sci/Med | Winter, Alison | FULL TITLE: "Gender in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine" An examination of how notions of masculinity and femininity have influenced the history of science, technology, and medicine since 1600. Topics will include study of the rise of women in scientific and medical institutions and of the ongoing debates about whether men and women have (or have had) different ways of understanding the natural world. |
| Aut 07 | 35203 | 01 | Econ/ Soc Hist of Euro, 1700-1880 | Craig, John | This course examines the causes, characteristics, and effects -- economic, social, and otherwise -- of the "industrious" and industrial revolutions. The course reviews an array of unresolved debates, among them the so-called Brenner debate and the debates over proto-industrialization, the enclosure movements, the sources of technological innovation, path dependence and diffusion patterns within and across economies, the family economy, the standard of living, the formation of the middle and working classes, the consequences of literacy, and the voluntary iniatives and public policies addressing such social problems as poverty, disease, illegitimacy, and crime. The course is the first in a two-course sequence covering the economic and social history of Europe from 1700 to the present, but each course is free-standing -- students enrolled in this course are not required to take its sequel. |
| Aut 07 | 35304 | 01 | Goethe: Literature, Science, Philosophy | Richards, Robert | This lecture-discussion course will examine Johann Wolfgang von Goethe s intellectual development, from the time he wrote Sorrows of a Young Werther through the final stages of Faust. Along the way, we will read a selection of Goethe s plays, poetry, and travel literature. We will also examine his scientific work, especially his theory of color and his morphological theories. On the philosophical side, we will discuss Goethe s coming to terms with Kant (especially the latter s third Critique) and his adoption of Schelling s transcendental idealism. The theme uniting the exploration of the various works of Goethe will be the unity of the artistic and scientific understanding of nature, especially as he exemplified that unity in the eternal feminine. German is not required, but helpful. |
| Aut 07 | 35704 | 01 | Islamic History and Society 1 | Fleischer, Cornell | The course covers the period ca. 600 to 1100 C.E., including the rise and spread of Islam, the Islamic empire under the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphs, and the emergence of regional Islamic states from Afghanistan and eastern Iran to North Africa and Spain. |
| Aut 07 | 36101 | 01 | Latin American Civ 1 | Borges, Dain | This sequence fulfills the Common Core requirement in civilizational studies by introducing students to the history and cultures of Latin America, including Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean Islands. Autumn quarter examines the origins of civilizations in Latin America with a focus and the political, social, and cultural features of the major preColumbian civilizations of the Maya, Inca, and Aztec. The quarter concludes with consideration of the Spanish and Portuguese conquest and the construction of colonial societies in Latin America. Winter quarter addresses the evolution of colonial societies, the wars of independence, and the emergence of Latin American nation-states in the changing international context of the nineteenth century. Spring quarter focuses on the twentieth century, with special emphasis on the challenges of economic, political, and social development in the region. |
| Aut 07 | 36104 | 01 | Independence & State Formation in 19th Century Latin Amer | Myers, Jorge | Full Title: Independence & State Formation in 19th Century Latin America: New Research Perspectives Approaches to the political and Institutional history of Latin America In the 1810-1880 period, with and emphasis on the study of elections, citizenship, and the various elements contributing to the formation -- or absence -- of a public sphere In Argentina, Brazil, Peru and Mexico. |
| Aut 07 | 37100 | 01 | Amer Landscapes, 1926-1964 | Harris, Neil | This course treats changes in the natural and human-made environment, focusing on the settings American designers, builders, architects, and their clients developed for work, housing, education, recreation, worship, and travel. Lectures attempt to relate specific physical changes to social values, aesthetic theories, technological skills, and social structure. |
| Aut 07 | 38301 | 01 | Amer Political Cult,1600-1820 | Cook, Edward | This colloquium examines the culture and practice of political participation in early America, with a comparative look at early Modern England. It traces the formation of a deferential, nonpartisan politics in the colonies, and its replacement in the Revolutionary era with politics that increasingly used political party as a means of democratic participation. |
| Aut 07 | 38900 | 01 | Roots of the Modern American City | Conzen, Michael | This course traces the economic, social, and physical development of the city in North America from early industrialization to the present. Emphasis is on evolving urban systems and the changing spatial organization of people and land use. All-day Illinois field trip required. Superior term papers from this course may be selected for special publication. |
| Aut 07 | 39303 | 01 | Human Rgts 3 | Gzesh, Susan | This course examines the main features of the contemporary human rights system. It covers the major international treaties, and the mechanisms international, regional, and national established to implement them. We also discuss the uses and limitations of the international treaty system, and the relationship between international obligations and domestic implementation. Problems of rights implementation are related to issues of evidence, professional ethics, and political feasibility. Legal and medical concepts are applied to topics such as torture, political repression, war crimes and genocide, refugees, women s rights, children's rights, violations of human rights within the United States, and medical ethics. |
| Aut 07 | 49901 | 01 | Sacrament and Liturgy in the Medieval West | Fulton, Rachel | Sacrament stands at the center of Christian experience as both revelatory and obscure, an obligation and a gift, a rupturing and a making whole. Few modern theories of ritual have been able to capture this mystery in its entirety; this course seeks to explain why by concentrating on the history of sacrament and sacramental theology from the patristic period through the Reformation. Particular emphasis will be given to the sacraments of baptism and the eucharist in their liturgical and theological contexts. Sources will include theological writings from Augustine, Peter Lombard, Aquinas, and Martin Luther, as well as liturgical commentaries, liturgical formulae, meditations and prayers. |
| Aut 07 | 50100 | 01 | Oral Sources of History | Osborn, Emily | This course examines oral sources and their use for studying the past. Focusing largely but not exclusively on Africa, we will study different oral genres (interviews, epics, narratives, songs, poems, rumors, popular stories) and read exemplary works of historical scholarship that rely on oral sources, including life histories, testimonials, community studies, and political and social histories. We will investigate the relationship of historical production to the politics of memory by considering research on violence, colonialism, apartheid, and slavery and the slave trade; we will also consider how historians and others have used oral sources and ethnographic research to cast light on people and processes that are absent from or obscured by the archive. Students will be expected to consider ethical and practical issues that arise in conducting interviews and engaging in field work, and they will also have the opportunity to prepare a human subjects protocol, required for social science research that involves human subjects. This course will appeal to students interested in using oral sources and exploring alternative methods of investigating historical change and transformation. Undergraduates may enroll with prior approval from instructor. |
| Aut 07 | 53301 | 01 | Coll: Gender in Europe | Auslander, L & Gal, S. | The seminar will discuss current theories of gender as they illuminate and are challenged by contemporary and historical visions of gender relations and gender politics across the European continent. Topics to be covered include: Practices and regulation of sexuality and reproduction (gay marriage, marriage as migration strategy, birth control, abortion, medically-assisted reproduction, adoption); the gendering of politics (national and supranational governmental institutions, NGOs, grass-roots organizations); religion; and, changes in labor force participation and the structuring of the workplace. In all the cases the implications of post-coloniality and the expanding European union for gender will be considered. Comparisons, circulations and contrasts along an east/west and north/south axis will be of continuing interest; we will focus on material as well as discursive cultural practices. |
| Aut 07 | 54000 | 01 | Coll: Euro/Colonialsm/Globalsm | Austen, Ralph | FULL TITLE: "European Overseas Expansion, Colonialism, and the Postcolonial World: Chronology, Political Economy, Culture" This course encompasses European overseas expansion from the fifteenth through nineteenth centuries, the emergence from this process of new colonial territories inhabited by non-Europeans, and the fate of these territories as "postcolonies" in the late-twentieth and twenty-first century global order. The analytic goal is to integrate politics ( the formation of colonial regimes and successor nation-states); economics (the dialectics of colonialism, "underdevelopment," and global capitalism) and culture (the construction of European and "Third World" identities via colonialism). |
| Aut 07 | 56800 | 01 | Coll: Intro to Science Studies | Johns, A & Evans, J | This course explores the interdisciplinary study of science as an enterprise. During the twentieth century, sociologists, historians, philosophers, and anthropologists all raised interesting and consequential questions about the sciences. Taken together, their various approaches came to constitute a field, "science studies." The course provides an introduction to this field. Students will not only investigate how it coalesced and why, but will also apply science-studies perspectives in a fieldwork project focused on a science or science-policy setting. Among the topics we may examine are: the sociology of scientific knowledge and its applications; actor-network theories of science; constructivism and the history of science; images of normal and revolutionary science; accounts of research in the commercial university; and the examined links between science and policy. |
| Aut 07 | 57701 | 01 | Sem: Important Things | Over a free lunch, we talk about the latest literature in history and philosophy of science. | |
| Aut 07 | 59401 | 01 | Coll: Transnational approaches to US & Mexican Histories | Tenorio, Mauricio | The seminar examines the literature(on both Mexico, the U.S. and some other countries) in search of possibilities for a new historical perspective between and within conventional U.S. and Mexican histories. Can historical topics be treated solely as the problems of conventional national histories? This is the key question that the course explores. The seminar is experimental. History (rerum gestarum) has been a matter of national framework.. Of course, when writing history from large U.S. institutions we count with such entelechies as Latin America, Africa, etc... But by and large we write history for and within national--nationalistic-skeletons. The seminar seeks to find topics and approaches that consider the nation just as another factor and not as the raison d'etre of our stories. The methodological, practical, ideological, and linguistic obstacles to achieve this intellectual goal are vast. That is why the seminar is experimental. The course includes readings dealing with various historical periods, mostly-not exclusively--about the U.S. and Mexico. |
| Aut 07 | 59701 | 01 | Coll: Latin American and Latino Sexualities | Gutierrez, Ramon | This course studies the relationship between sexual and ethnic identities in Latin America and among Latinas and Latinos in the United States. Using the methods of social history, cultural anthropology, and sociology, we will explore debates about the meanings of the body, gender, sexual practices, the emergence of identities based on heterosexuality, homosexuality, and bisexuality, the development of sexual subcultures, and the relationship between power and desire as inflected by class, race, and generational differences. |
| Aut 07 | 62500 | 01 | Coll: Market, Culture, & Society | Stanley, Amy | This course takes as its organizing premise that the ascendance of market relations in America constituted a profound ideological problem. It studies the historical scholarship addressing this problem as it unfolded from the early modern era to the mid-twentieth century. It concentrates on the following issues: the commodity as a paradigm for selfhood and social exchange; market relations as a focus of the contest between freedom and slavery; the transition from market economy to market society to consumer culture; the gender implications of market principles of freedom and virtue; cultural responses to the class cleavages generated by free market relations; mass culture, individual agency, and advertising. |
| Aut 07 | 62502 | 01 | Coll: Metropolitan Life | Stansell, Christine | Metropolitan Life introduces students to exemplary historical writing in the history of cities in the 19th and 20th centuries. While the cases we discuss are mostly American and European (New York, Chicago, Paris, London, Berlin), urban interests from other regions are welcome. The attention will be on urban culture, spatial relations, gender/sexuality, racial/ethnic minorities, artistic and intellectual elites, and labor history . Readings include; Richard Evans, Death in Hamburg, Tom Sugrue, Origins of the Urban Crisis, Self, American Babylon, Mumford, The City in History, Stansell, American Moderns; Chauncey, Gay New York. Students are required to read one novel about a metropole in the course of the semester. |
| Aut 07 | 71103 | 01 | Sem: State & Subject in Roman Empire 1 | Hawkins, C & Ando, C. | This course will examine the effects of imperial government on provincial societies in the Roman empire, in social, cultural, legal and economic terms. We will devote particular attention to recent theoretical work on empire and state formation, as well as to problems of evidence in ancient history. These embrace both access and interpretation--what kinds of evidence are there, and where may they be found; how are they interpreted, individually and in aggregate. |
| Aut 07 | 73801 | 01 | Sem: Race, Racism, Anti-racism in Euro 1 | Auslander, Leora | Full Title: Race, Racism, and Anti-Racist Movements in Modern Europe During the first term of this two-quarter research seminar we will examine conceptions of race, forms of racism (including anti-Semitism), and anti-racist movements in France and the German lands from the late eighteenth century through the late twentieth. We will briefly consider eighteenth-century understandings of race before moving on to an analysis of the place of those understandings in the emancipation of both Jews and slaves during the French Revolution. Nineteenth-century topics will include: intersections of race and nation, abolitionism, French understandings of race in Algeria, new conceptions of racial difference in 19th century imperialism, and changes in anti-Semitism. Twentieth-century themes will include the meanings of race under the Third Reich and Vichy, decolonization and postcolonial Europe, implications of Europeanification and German reunification for racial thinking, the new racism and anti-racist mobilizations. Readings for the fall quarter will all be in English. Students planning to specialize in French, German or Central European history will, however, be required to use the appropriate languages in their Winter quarter seminar papers. Each session will include discussion of both primary and secondary materials. Primary sources analyzed will include texts, visual and material culture, and music. Most of the secondary literature will be historical, but the approaches of social theorists, literary scholars and anthropologists will also be considered. Enrolment permitting, the Fall quarter may be taken alone. The Fall quarter is, however, a prerequisite for the Winter. |
| Aut 07 | 74801 | 01 | Sem: Euro/Colonialsm/Globalsm 1 | Austen, Ralph | FULL TITLE: "European Overseas Expansion, Colonialism, and the Postcolonial World: Chronology, Political Economy, Culture" This course encompasses European overseas expansion from the fifteenth through nineteenth centuries, the emergence from this process of new colonial territories inhabited by non-Europeans, and the fate of these territories as "postcolonies" in the late-twentieth and twenty-first century global order. The analytic goal is to integrate politics ( the formation of colonial regimes and successor nation-states); economics (the dialectics of colonialism, "underdevelopment," and global capitalism) and culture (the construction of European and "Third World" identities via colonialism). |
| Aut 07 | 75601 | 01 | Sem: Mod Korean Hist 1 (canceled) | Cumings, Bruce | By modern, we mean Korea since its "opening" in 1876. We read about one book per week in the autumn. Before each session, one student will write a 3-4 page paper on the reading, with another student commenting on it. In the winter, students present the subject, method, and rationale for a significant research paper. Papers should be about forty pages and based in primary materials; ideally this means Korean materials, but ability to read scholarly materials in Korean, Japanese, or Chinese is not a requirement for taking the seminar. Students may also choose a comparative and theoretical approach, examining some problems in modern Korean history in the light of similar problems elsewhere, or through the vision of a body of theory. |
| Aut 07 | 76601 | 01 | Sem: Japanese Hist 1 | Ketelaar, James | Reading and research in Japanese history, which culminates in a major seminar paper at the end of winter term. |
| Aut 07 | 78201 | 01 | Sem: Ottoman World/Suleyman 1 | Fleischer, Cornell | FULL TITLE: "The Ottoman World in the Age of Suleyman the Magnificent" The course focuses on the formation of the Ottoman polity as an imperial entity following the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 and up to the end of the sixteenth century. Taking as its thematic center point the ideological, social, cultural, and administrative changes introduced by Sultan Suleyman (1520-1566), the seminar also provides a survey of the institutions of his most extensive of early modern Muslim empires. Themes of particular significance are the changing relationship of religion and state, the development of imperial culture, the rule of law, rivalry with contemporary Christian and Muslim powers, and the transition from universal to regional empire. Reading knowledge of at least one European language recommended. |
| Aut 07 | 78601 | 01 | Sem: Iran and Central Asia 1 | Woods, John | The first quarter will take the form of a colloquium on the sources for and the literature on the political, social, economic, technological, and cultural history of Western and Central Asia from 900 to 1750. Specific topics will vary and focus on the Turks and the Islamic world, the Mongol universal empire, the age of Timur and the Turkmens, and the development of the "Gunpowder Empires". The second quarter will be devoted to the preparation of a major research paper. |
| Aut 07 | 79201 | 01 | Sem: Lat Am Cultural Hist 1 | Borges, Dain | The first half of a research seminar covering debates and methods in Latin American history, with emphasis on the period from 1750 to the present. This years seminar will explore social mobility. |
| Aut 07 | 82001 | 01 | Sem: Soviet History 1 | Fitzpatrick, Sheila | This seminar covers the period 1917-1964; it includes historiography (English and Russian language) and a survey of sources. A reading knowledge of Russian is required to take the two-quarter seminar sequence; the first quarter can be taken as colloquium by students without knowledge of Russian. |
| Aut 07 | 83101 | 01 | Sem: US Social History 1 | Conzen, Kathleen | Topic for 2007-08: Varieties of 19th Century American Pluralism. This two-quarter graduate research seminar will explore the tension between 19th century America's quest for a cohesive national identity and the practical pluralism of its varied varied religious, ethnic, racial, regional, and class "elements." During the autumn quarter, students will read and discuss relevant scholarly literature and prepare a historiographical essay/research proposal; during the winter quarter, students will research and write a seminar paper based on their own original research. The autumn quarter may be taken independently; the winter quarter is open only to students who have taken the autumn quarter. |
| Aut 07 | 83401 | 01 | Sem: Topics in Mod Amer Political Hist 1 | Dailey, Jane | Issues and methods in the interpretation of American political history and social movements from the end of the nineteenth century forward. |
| Aut 07 | 90000 | ## | Rdg/Rsch: History Grad | Arr | |
| Aut 07 | 90600 | ## | Oral Fields Preparation: History | Arr | |
| Aut 07 | 97800 | 01 | Wksp: Hist/Philos of Science | ||
| Aut 07 | 97900 | 01 | Wksp: Hist of Human Sciences | Richards, Robert | |
| Aut 07 | 99001 | 01 | Workshop: Professional Issues | staff | This practical workshop advises students on their professional development from the first years of graduate course work to a career as a freshly minted Ph.D. Meeting every two weeks throughout the academic year, the workshop features panel discussions and tours led by upper-level graduate students, faculty, and staff and addresses such issues as study, research, and teaching skills; orals fields; dissertation proposals; grantsmanship and conference presentations, among other topics. The workshop is open to students in all stages of the doctoral program, as well students in masters programs who are contemplating a career as an historian. |
| Aut 07 | 99101 | ## | Workshop: Dissertation Writing | Auslander, Leora | |
| Aut 07 | 99700 | ## | Thesis Preparation: History | Arr | |
| Aut 07 | 99800 | ## | Tching Eurpn Hist-UG Colleges | Arr | |
| Aut 07 | 99900 | ## | Apprenticeship: Teaching History | Arr |