fullname qtr yr	Crs	Sec	Title	Instructor	Description
Aut 09	13001	01	Hist of European Civ 1	Amos, Jennifer	"European Civilization" is a two-quarter sequence designed to introduce students to the nature and history of European civilization from the early middle ages to the twentieth century. It complements parallel sequences in ancient Mediterranean, Byzantine, Islamic, and American civilizations, and may be supplemented by a third quarter designed to expand a student's understanding of European civilization in a particular direction. Emphasis will be placed throughout on the recurring tension between universal aspirations and localizing boundaries, and on the fundamental rhythms of tradition and change. Method consists of close reading of primary sources intended to illuminate the formation and development of a characteristically European way of life in the high middle ages; the collapse of ecclesiastical universalism in the early modern period; and the development of modern politics, society, and culture in the centuries to follow. Individual instructors may choose different sources to illuminate those themes, but some of the most important readings will be the same in all sections.
Aut 09	13001	02	Hist of European Civ 1	Palmer, Jennifer	"European Civilization" is a two-quarter sequence designed to introduce students to the nature and history of European civilization from the early middle ages to the twentieth century. It complements parallel sequences in ancient Mediterranean, Byzantine, Islamic, and American civilizations, and may be supplemented by a third quarter designed to expand a student's understanding of European civilization in a particular direction. Emphasis will be placed throughout on the recurring tension between universal aspirations and localizing boundaries, and on the fundamental rhythms of tradition and change. Method consists of close reading of primary sources intended to illuminate the formation and development of a characteristically European way of life in the high middle ages; the collapse of ecclesiastical universalism in the early modern period; and the development of modern politics, society, and culture in the centuries to follow. Individual instructors may choose different sources to illuminate those themes, but some of the most important readings will be the same in all sections.
Aut 09	13001	03	Hist of European Civ 1	Palmer, Jennifer	"European Civilization" is a two-quarter sequence designed to introduce students to the nature and history of European civilization from the early middle ages to the twentieth century. It complements parallel sequences in ancient Mediterranean, Byzantine, Islamic, and American civilizations, and may be supplemented by a third quarter designed to expand a student's understanding of European civilization in a particular direction. Emphasis will be placed throughout on the recurring tension between universal aspirations and localizing boundaries, and on the fundamental rhythms of tradition and change. Method consists of close reading of primary sources intended to illuminate the formation and development of a characteristically European way of life in the high middle ages; the collapse of ecclesiastical universalism in the early modern period; and the development of modern politics, society, and culture in the centuries to follow. Individual instructors may choose different sources to illuminate those themes, but some of the most important readings will be the same in all sections.
Aut 09	13001	04	Hist of European Civ 1	Padgett, John	"European Civilization" is a two-quarter sequence designed to introduce students to the nature and history of European civilization from the early middle ages to the twentieth century. It complements parallel sequences in ancient Mediterranean, Byzantine, Islamic, and American civilizations, and may be supplemented by a third quarter designed to expand a student's understanding of European civilization in a particular direction. Emphasis will be placed throughout on the recurring tension between universal aspirations and localizing boundaries, and on the fundamental rhythms of tradition and change. Method consists of close reading of primary sources intended to illuminate the formation and development of a characteristically European way of life in the high middle ages; the collapse of ecclesiastical universalism in the early modern period; and the development of modern politics, society, and culture in the centuries to follow. Individual instructors may choose different sources to illuminate those themes, but some of the most important readings will be the same in all sections.
Aut 09	13001	05	Hist of European Civ 1	Albritton Jonsson, Fredrik	"European Civilization" is a two-quarter sequence designed to introduce students to the nature and history of European civilization from the early middle ages to the twentieth century. It complements parallel sequences in ancient Mediterranean, Byzantine, Islamic, and American civilizations, and may be supplemented by a third quarter designed to expand a student's understanding of European civilization in a particular direction. Emphasis will be placed throughout on the recurring tension between universal aspirations and localizing boundaries, and on the fundamental rhythms of tradition and change. Method consists of close reading of primary sources intended to illuminate the formation and development of a characteristically European way of life in the high middle ages; the collapse of ecclesiastical universalism in the early modern period; and the development of modern politics, society, and culture in the centuries to follow. Individual instructors may choose different sources to illuminate those themes, but some of the most important readings will be the same in all sections.
Aut 09	13001	06	Hist of European Civ 1	Dudley, Christopher	"European Civilization" is a two-quarter sequence designed to introduce students to the nature and history of European civilization from the early middle ages to the twentieth century. It complements parallel sequences in ancient Mediterranean, Byzantine, Islamic, and American civilizations, and may be supplemented by a third quarter designed to expand a student's understanding of European civilization in a particular direction. Emphasis will be placed throughout on the recurring tension between universal aspirations and localizing boundaries, and on the fundamental rhythms of tradition and change. Method consists of close reading of primary sources intended to illuminate the formation and development of a characteristically European way of life in the high middle ages; the collapse of ecclesiastical universalism in the early modern period; and the development of modern politics, society, and culture in the centuries to follow. Individual instructors may choose different sources to illuminate those themes, but some of the most important readings will be the same in all sections.
Aut 09	13100	01	Western Civ 1	Weintraub, Katy	The purpose of this sequence, which fulfills the common core requirement in civilizational studies, is threefold: 1) to introduce students to the principles of historical thought, 2) to acquaint them with some of the more important epochs in the development of Western civilization since the sixth century B.C., and 3) to assist them in discovering connections between the various epochs. The purpose of the course is not to present a general survey of Western history. Instruction consists of intensive investigation of a selection of original documents bearing on a number of separate topics, usually two or three a quarter, occasionally supplemented by the work of a modern historian.
Aut 09	13500	01	America in World Civilization 1	Betz, Jacob	This sequence, which fulfills the Common Core requirement in civilizational studies, uses the American historical experience, set within the context of Western civilization, to 1) introduce students to the principles of historical thought, 2) probe the ways political and social theory emerge within specific historical contexts, and 3) explore some of the major issues and trends in American historical development. The course is not a general survey of American history.
Aut 09	13500	02	America in World Civilization 1	Stansell, Christine	This sequence, which fulfills the Common Core requirement in civilization studies, uses the American historical experience, set within the context of Western civilization, to 1) introduce students to the principles of historical thought, 2) probe the ways political and social theory emerge within specific historical contexts, and 3) explore some of the major issues and trends in American historical development. The course is not a general survey of American history.
Aut 09	13500	03	America in World Civilization 1	Cook, Ted	This sequence, which fulfills the Common Core requirement in civilization studies, uses the American historical experience, set within the context of Western civilization, to 1) introduce students to the principles of historical thought, 2) probe the ways political and social theory emerge within specific historical contexts, and 3) explore some of the major issues and trends in American historical development. The course is not a general survey of American history.
Aut 09	13500	04	America in World Civilization 1	Swafford, Emily	This sequence, which fulfills the common core requirement in civilizational studies, uses the American historical experience, set within the context of Western civilization, to 1) introduce students to the principles of historical thought, 2) probe the ways political and social theory emerge within specific historical contexts, and 3) explore some of the major issues and trends in American historical development. The course is not a general survey of American history.
Aut 09	13500	05	America in World Civilization 1	Slauter, Eric	This sequence, which fulfills the common core requirement in civilizational studies, uses the American historical experience, set within the context of Western civilization, to 1) introduce students to the principles of historical thought, 2) probe the ways political and social theory emerge within specific historical contexts, and 3) explore some of the major issues and trends in American historical development. The course is not a general survey of American history.
Aut 09	13900	01	Intro to Russian Civilization 1	Fein, Julia	This 2-qtr, interdisciplinary course studies geography, history, literature, economics, law, fine arts, religion, sociology, and agriculture, among other fields, to see how the civilization of Russia has developed and functioned since the ninth century. The first quarter covers the period up to 1801; the second, since 1801. The course has a common lecture by a specialist in the field, usually on a topic about which little is written in English. Two weekly seminar meetings are devoted to discussion of the readings, which integrate the materials from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. The course attempts to inculcate an understanding of the separate elements of Russian civilization. Emphasis is placed on discovering indigenous elements of Russian civilization and how they have reacted to the pressures and impact of other civilizations, particularly Byzantine, Mongol-Tataric, and Western. The course also considers problems of the social sciences, such as the way in which the state has dominated society, stratification, patterns of legitimization of the social order, symbols of collective social and cultural identity, the degrees of pluralism in society, and the autonomy an individual has vis-à-vis the social order. Also examined are such problems as the role of the center in directing the periphery and its cultural, political, and economic order; the mechanisms of control over the flow of resources and the social surplus; and processes of innovation and modernization.
Aut 09	15100	00	Intro to East Asian Civ 1	Alitto, Guy	This sequence on the civilizations of China, Japan, and Korea emphasizes major transformation in these cultures and societies from their inception to the present.
Aut 09	15100	01	Intro to East Asian Civ 1	Alitto, Guy	This sequence on the civilizations of China, Japan, and Korea emphasizes major transformation in these cultures and societies from their inception to the present.
Aut 09	15100	02	Intro to East Asian Civ 1	Alitto, Guy	This sequence on the civilizations of China, Japan, and Korea emphasizes major transformation in these cultures and societies from their inception to the present.
Aut 09	15100	03	Intro to East Asian Civ 1	Alitto, Guy	This sequence on the civilizations of China, Japan, and Korea emphasizes major transformation in these cultures and societies from their inception to the present.
Aut 09	15100	04	Intro to East Asian Civ 1	Alitto, Guy	This sequence on the civilizations of China, Japan, and Korea emphasizes major transformation in these cultures and societies from their inception to the present.
Aut 09	15100	05	Intro to East Asian Civ 1	Alitto, Guy	This sequence on the civilizations of China, Japan, and Korea emphasizes major transformation in these cultures and societies from their inception to the present.
Aut 09	15100	99	Intro to East Asian Civ 1		This sequence on the civilizations of China, Japan, and Korea emphasizes major transformation in these cultures and societies from their inception to the present.
Aut 09	15602	01	Ancient Empires I: The Neo-Assyrian Empire	Staff	Taking these courses in sequence is not required. This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. Three great empires of the ancient world are introduced in this sequence. Each course focuses on a particular empire, with attention to the similarities and differences among the empires covered in this sequence. By exploring the rich legacy of documents and monuments that these empires produced, students are introduced to ways of understanding imperialism and its cultural and societal effects both on the imperial elites and on those they conquered. Extensive use is made of visual materials, including artifacts on display in the Oriental Institute Museum.
Aut 09	15702	01	Semitic Languages, Cultures, and Civilizations I: Semitic Lang. in the Ancient & Modern Middle East	Hasselbach, Rebecca	Not open to first-year students. Taking these courses in sequence is recommended but not required. This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. This sequence deals with the Semitic languages and peoples of the ancient and modern Middle East. Semitic languages include ancient languages (e.g., Akkadian, Biblical Hebrew, Classical Arabic, Phoenician, Classical Ethiopic) and modern languages (e.g., Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, Aramaic). Concentrating on case studies from ancient Mesopotamia (today s Iraq), the Syro-Palestinian corridor, and modern Middle Eastern states, we study continuity and changes in ancient and modern societies, the connections between writing and history, language, history and national identity, and literature and history. Although there is an overall chronological framework, the sequence is thematically oriented to analyze the way historical actors addressed political problems and historical situations. Through an interdisciplinary approach we reflect on the creation and cohesion of states, empires, modern nation states and national identities.
Aut 09	16101	01	Latin American Civ 1	Kouri, Emilio	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 09	16205	01	Democracy in Central America	Iber, Patrick	Democracy in Central America. *Achieving democracy has been a core goal of social and political movements for centuries, yet the meaning of the word seems to be constantly changing. In this course we will look at the histories of the nations of Central America (focusing on Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica) to see how people experienced democracy in their daily lives, struggled for it, and sometimes, lost it. We will explore the sometimes surprising relationships of Communism, imperialism and revolution (three forces that have weighed heavily on the history of Central America in the twentieth century) to democracy. We will draw on various sources, including novels, testimonial literature, film, and traditional scholarship from historians and political scientists.
Aut 09	16700	00	Anc Mediterranean World 1-Greece	Bresson, Alain	This sequence fulfills the common core requirement in civilization studies. This quarter surveys the social, economic, and political history of Greece from prehistory to the Hellenistic period. The main topics considered include the development of the institutions of the Greek city-state, the Persian Wars and the rivalry of Athens and Sparta, the social and economic consequences of the Peloponnesian War, and the eclipse and defeat of the city-states by the Macedonians.
Aut 09	16700	01	Anc Mediterranean World 1-Greece	Bresson, Alain	This sequence fulfills the common core requirement in civilization studies. This quarter surveys the social, economic, and political history of Greece from prehistory to the Hellenistic period. The main topics considered include the development of the institutions of the Greek city-state, the Persian Wars and the rivalry of Athens and Sparta, the social and economic consequences of the Peloponnesian War, and the eclipse and defeat of the city-states by the Macedonians.
Aut 09	16700	02	Anc Mediterranean World 1-Greece	Bresson, Alain	This sequence fulfills the common core requirement in civilization studies. This quarter surveys the social, economic, and political history of Greece from prehistory to the Hellenistic period. The main topics considered include the development of the institutions of the Greek city-state, the Persian Wars and the rivalry of Athens and Sparta, the social and economic consequences of the Peloponnesian War, and the eclipse and defeat of the city-states by the Macedonians.
Aut 09	16700	03	Anc Mediterranean World 1-Greece	Bresson, Alain	This sequence fulfills the common core requirement in civilization studies. This quarter surveys the social, economic, and political history of Greece from prehistory to the Hellenistic period. The main topics considered include the development of the institutions of the Greek city-state, the Persian Wars and the rivalry of Athens and Sparta, the social and economic consequences of the Peloponnesian War, and the eclipse and defeat of the city-states by the Macedonians.
Aut 09	17103	01	Spoons Full of Sugar: The Economic, Political, and Social Repercussions of the Sugar Industry	Hughes, Amanda	This course introduces students to the political economy of sugar from its evolution as a medicinal treatment for the elite, to our daily morning coffee. Students will follow sugar's spread around the world and dissect its relationship to slavery, colonialism and the emerging global market. By the start of the revolutionary era, sugar was a major world commodity, serving as the underpinning of empires, countries and the slave trade. Throughout the nineteenth century new forces emerged attempting to regulate, protect, or challenge its continued dominance as a sweetener and as a major force in the world economy. Students will follow sugar through these changes and into the present day world of cartels, state regulation, global trade agreements, and zero calorie sweeteners. Students who engage thoroughly with course themes will come away with a framework to think about the role of commodities in world history and its future. Students will also be challenged to gain effective communication and writing skills through discussion and essay assignments.
Aut 09	17104	01	Losing the Farm: Globalization and Food Production in the 20th Century	Bivar, Venus	Who grows the food you eat? How do they grow it? Where do they grow it? And how is it that you can buy fresh fruit in the dead of winter? This course aims to answer these questions through an examination of the development of industrial agriculture in the 20th ^ century. We will pay particular attention to how the development of industrial agricultural emerged in the 20th century as a global phenomenon from the import and export of new and exotic foods to the global food crisis of the 1970s. Lastly, we will examine critiques of industrial and global agriculture, from the new agrarians to the rising popularity of the local foods movement. One Saturday field-trip required.
Aut 09	17300	01	Science/Culture/Society in West Civ 1	Richards, Robert	This civilizational sequence focuses on the origins and development of science in the West. The aim is to trace the evolution of the biological, psychological, natural, and mathematical sciences as they emerge from the cultural and social matrix of their periods, and in turn, affect culture and society. Each quarter may be taken independently, although it is suggested that students take the entire sequence in order.
Aut 09	17602	01	Introduction to Asian/ Pacific Islander American History	Briones, Matthew	Looking through a broad interdisciplinary lens, this course will examine the trajectory of Asians and Pacific Islanders in America. How did 19th- and early-20th-century sojourners become citizens ? What constituted the public s shift in perception of Asians from unassimilable alien to ostensible model minority ? We will interrogate not only what it means to have been and to be an Asian in America but also what role Asian Americans have played in striving for a multiracial democracy. Conscious of the tendency to homogenize all Asians in the historical imagination, the course will be explicitly comparative, incorporating the diverse and disparate experiences of East, Southeast, and South Asians, as well as Pacific Islanders in America. We will also investigate and compare the histories of African Americans, Native Americans, ethnic whites, Latinas/os, and Arab Americans to highlight the Asian American experience.
Aut 09	17603	01	Maid in America, Made in China: Laboring Women and Workers Rights in Global Perspective	Turk, Katherine	In recent decades, an increasing number of poor women worldwide have begun working for a wage. Women s labor has always been essential to the functioning of families and societies. Yet, this work has often either been unpaid domestic, agricultural, or reproductive or self-directed. Course readings and lectures will consider women workers rights and working conditions in societies where women s waged labor is a new phenomenon. We will juxtapose those transforming societies with others that have long had feminized wage labor particularly the United States. We will examine state, employer and worker conceptions of gender norms, the larger social and cultural consequences of women s presence in the workplace, and women s attempts to fashion identities as wage laborers on their own terms. Coursework will include midterm and final examinations, as well as an original research paper focusing on issues surrounding women and wage work in one or several societies.
Aut 09	17804	01	Women in American Jewish History	Imhoff, Sarah	The class will explore the role of women in American Jewish history and the role of Jewish women in American history. We do not have a textbook, or even a book that provides an overarching narrative of the history of Jewish women in America. Instead, we will work to put together our own story of how and why Jewish women s lives have changed over time and what that means for writing history. We will also explore questions about what it has meant to be Jewish in America: Are Jews defined by their religion? What does it mean to be a Jew? Is Judaism a culture, or an ethnicity? During America s history the answers to these questions have had different answers. What does it mean that the definitions of Jewishness to both American Jews and non-Jews have changed over time?
Aut 09	18301	01	Colonizations 1	Palmie, Stephan	The course will approach the concept of "civilization" from an emphasis on cross-cultural and societal connections. We will explore the dynamics of conquest, slavery, and colonialism and their reciprocal relationships with concepts such as resistance, freedom, and independence with an eye toward understanding their interlocking role in the making of the modern world. The first quarter (Colonizations I) will take slavery, colonization, and the making of the Atlantic world as its central thematic. The second quarter (Colonizations II) will take colonization as its theme, with emphasis on Asia and the Pacific. It will start with a consideration of the pre-modern Arab and Chinese empires and then turn to European and Japanese colonialism (and decolonization) in Asia. The course will be taught as a two-quarter sequence. Students must take both quarters.
Aut 09	18301	02	Colonizations 1	Staff	The course will approach the concept of "civilization" from an emphasis on cross-cultural and societal connections. We will explore the dynamics of conquest, slavery, and colonialism and their reciprocal relationships with concepts such as resistance, freedom, and independence with an eye toward understanding their interlocking role in the making of the modern world. The first quarter (Colonizations I) will take slavery, colonization, and the making of the Atlantic world as its central thematic. The second quarter (Colonizations II) will take colonization as its theme, with emphasis on Asia and the Pacific. It will start with a consideration of the pre-modern Arab and Chinese empires and then turn to European and Japanese colonialism (and decolonization) in Asia. The course will be taught as a two-quarter sequence. Students must take both quarters.
Aut 09	21201	99	British Political History Since 1900	Wasserstein, Bernard	The course addresses major themes in twentieth-century British politics, including the rise and fall of working-class politics, the decline of the Liberal Party, the Irish question, the great depression, the impact of two world wars, the birth of the welfare state, the retreat from empire, immigration, Britain and European integration, Thatcherism, and New Labour. The course is open to students participating in the London program.
Aut 09	22107	01	Colonialism and Everyday Life in Modern France	Heath, Elizabeth	Full Title: Producing Empire, Consuming Empire: Colonialism and Everyday Life in Modern France. The French have long been seen as arbiters of fine taste and style especially in matters of food, clothing, and recreation. Upon closer look, however, the origins of many of these French goods and habits are actually intimately tied to France s colonial project in the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia. This class will look at the way everyday life in modern France has long been shaped by its colonial possessions. In the course of the class we will look at both the production of commodities in the colonies (and the social and environmental implication of these economic endeavors) as well as the ways these goods traveled to metropolitan France where they were consumed and integrated into habits of everyday life. Combining cultural, social, and economic approaches to the history of empire, the class will attempt a new way to answer an old question: how important were the colonies to France? Course requirements: Research paper
Aut 09	22401	01	Europe in the Early Middle Ages	Fulton, Rachel	This lecture-discussion course offers an in-depth introduction to the history of Europe from the conversion of the Roman Empire to the end of the first Christian Millennium. Principal themes include relations between Christians and pagans, the break-up of the Mediterranean world and subsequent cultural interaction between the three medieval "heirs of Rome," the origins of Latin Christendom and the European Kingdoms of northern and southern Europe, and the special role of the Church in the formation of a distinctive European culture. Readings include primary sources in translation from both Latin and the vernacular along with relevant scholarship.
Aut 09	23301	01	Europe, 1660-1815	Goldstein, Jan	This is the first installment of a three-quarter sequence, which offers a general introduction to the processes and events that constituted the passage to modernity in Europe: monarchical absolutism as a means to state-building on the Continent and its parliamentary alternative in Britain; the intellectual and cultural transformations effected by the Enlightenment, including the creation of a liberal public sphere; the French Revolution and its pan-European implications; the rise of the laissez-faire market and the Industrial Revolution; the emergence of feminism and socialism. The course will be conducted primarily by means of lectures. Readings will include both primary and secondary sources.
Aut 09	23408	01	Proto-Globalization: Empire, Science & Environment	Albritton Jonsson, Fredrik	This course investigates the beginnings of the modern global economy by analyzing the environmental basis of Western expansion 1492-1800. The power and wealth of early modern empires rested on the massive reordering of the natural world. We will track this process in multiple and interconnected dimensions: ecological, social, scientific, and political. In terms of geographic scope, we will look at a series of concrete case studies in colonization, from medieval Iceland to seventeenth-century Barbados and eighteenth-century Lapland, Mauritius, and New South Wales. Readings will include a variety of primary sources as well as scholarly classics of the field such as Alfred Crosby s Ecological Imperialism and Richard Grove s Green Imperialism.
Aut 09	23704	01	War and Peace	Steiner, Lina	Written in the wake of the Crimean War (1856) and the emancipation of the serfs (1861), Tolstoy's War and Peace represents Russia's most important national narrative. Tolstoy chooses to set his tale during the Napoleonic wars, the epoch commonly regarded as the moment of national awakening, which gave rise to major social and political transformations within the Russian society that were still underway at the time when Tolstoy wrote and published his epic. Reading War and Peace we not only learn a lot about Russian history and culture, but also have a rare chance to visit the writer's workshop and witness the creation of a completely original, organic work of art. It is a telling fact that Tolstoy's novel-epic-a unique hybrid of several different genres deliberately designed as a riposte to the typical West European novel - was never finalized, because after publishing this work in a serial form in a leading "thick journal" Tolstoy continued to return to War and Peace throughout the rest of his life. This course will focus on both the artistic and intellectual facets of War and Peace. This course is recommended for students interested in Russian and European literature, history and political science as well as those who are building a Fundamentals major. The course is open to all undergraduates and some graduate students (by consent). Reading, discussion and papers will be in English.
Aut 09	24100	01	Zen and History	Ketelaar, James	This course examines Chan/Zen history, debates over this history, and consequences of Chan/Zen for understanding history and historiographic perse.
Aut 09	24500	01	Reading Qing Documents	Alitto, Guy	Reading and discussion of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century historical political documents, including such forms as memorials, decrees, local gazetteers, diplomatic communications, essays, and the like.
Aut 09	25008	01	Scientific Lives: Biography in the History of Science	Holmes, Marcia	In this course we will explore the possibilities and problems of biography in the history of science by reading, writing about, and discussing various works that purport to describe the lives of famous scientists. The first four weeks of the quarter will be devoted to developing concepts and modes of critique that we can use to better understand the genre of scientific biography. In the remaining weeks of the quarter, we will read biographies of mid-twentieth century scientists. In reading these texts, it is hoped that not only will we learn more about the lives and achievements of scientists in historical context, but we will also become better equipped to assess the power of biography to capture, clarify, and challenge assumptions of how science works, what scientists do, and what role scientific biography can play in the study of the history of science.
Aut 09	25501	01	Evol of Mind/Morality, 19th-21st C	Richards, Robert	"Evolution of Mind and Morality, Nineteenth-Twenty-first Centuries" This lecture-discussion course will focus on efforts to give an evolutionary account of mind and moral judgment. We will consider individual theorists of such evolutionary accounts, e.g., Darwin, Spencer, James, Lorenz, Wilson, Sober, and Dennett; recent evolutionary psychologists, e.g., Tooby and Cosmedes, Gigerenzer; and critics of such efforts, e.g., G. E. Moore, Gould, Flew, etc. The considerations will encompass such topics as the evidence for evolutionary theories of mind, the naturalistic fallacy, naturalistic constructions of cognition, altruism, etc. Through gentle suasion the thesis will be advanced that, to borrow Dobzhansky's observation, nothing makes any sense except in the light of evolution.
Aut 09	25607	01	From Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic	Ülker, Erol	This course aims to investigate the political, socio-economic, and demographic processes that culminated in the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and the consolidation of Turkey as a new nation state. As a background for this inquiry, we will first outline the major patterns of the nineteenth century Ottoman modernization and reform movements. The second part of the course will focus on the traumatic and revolutionary developments of the period 1908-1945. In particular, we will examine the radicalization of the Young Turks movement along the ideological lines of Turkish nationalism, as well as the political and demographic consequences of this radicalization for the passage from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic. The course will conclude by looking at the major political and socio-economic developments that the republican regime underwent over the course of the period 1945-1980. We will pay close attention to the rise and fall of national developmentalism as a framework to understand the crisis of Turkish democracy in this period.
Aut 09	25704	01	Islamic History and Society 1	Donner, Fred	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 09	26500	01	Hist of Mexico, 1876-pres	Kouri, E & Tenorio, M	From the Porfiriato and the Revolution to the present, a survey of Mexican society and politics, with emphasis on the connections between economic developments, social justice, and political organization. Topics include fin de siècle modernization and the agrarian problem; causes and consequences of the Revolution of 1910; the making of the modern Mexican state; relations with the United States; industrialism and land reform; urbanization and migration; ethnicity, culture, and nationalism; economic crises, neoliberalism and social inequality; political reforms and electoral democracy; the zapatista rebellion in Chiapas; and the end of PRI rule.
Aut 09	27001	01	Law & Soc in Early Amer	Cook, Edward	This mixed level colloquium is intended for upper-level undergrads and early state graduate students. It considers law, legal institutions, and legal culture within the lived experience of colonial and revolutionary America. It will emphasize the interaction of social development and legal development, and will explore the breadth of everyday experience with legal institutions like the jury, with courts as institutions for resolving disputes, and with the prosecution of crime.
Aut 09	27200	01	Af-Am Hist to 1877	Holt, Thomas	This lecture course examines selected topics in the African American experience from the slave trade to slavery emancipation. Each lecture will focus on a specific problem of interpretation in African American history, all framed by an overall theme: the "making" of an African-American people out of diverse ethnic groups brought together under conditions of extreme oppression; and its corollary, the structural constraints and openings for resistance to that oppression. Readings will emphasize primary sources, especially autobiographical materials, supplemented by readings in important secondary sources. A midterm and final examination required.
Aut 09	27301	00	Introduction to Black Chicago, 1895-2005	Green, Adam	This course surveys the history of African Americans in Chicago, from before the 20th century to the near-present. In referring to that history, we treat a variety of themes, including: migration and its impact, origins and effects of class stratification; relation of culture and cultural endeavor to collective consciousness, rise of institutionalized religions, facts and fictions of political empowerment, and the correspondence of Black lives and living to indices of city wellness (services, schools, safety, general civic feeling). This is a history class that situates itself within a robust interdisciplinary conversation. Students can expect to engage works of autobiography and poetry, sociology, documentary photography, and political science as well as more straightforward historical analysis. By the end of the class, students should have grounding in Black Chicago s history, as well as an appreciation of how this history outlines and anticipates Black life and racial politics in the modern United States.
Aut 09	27301	01	Introduction to Black Chicago, 1895-2005	Green, Adam	This course surveys the history of African Americans in Chicago, from before the 20th century to the near-present. In referring to that history, we treat a variety of themes, including: migration and its impact, origins and effects of class stratification; relation of culture and cultural endeavor to collective consciousness, rise of institutionalized religions, facts and fictions of political empowerment, and the correspondence of Black lives and living to indices of city wellness (services, schools, safety, general civic feeling). This is a history class that situates itself within a robust interdisciplinary conversation. Students can expect to engage works of autobiography and poetry, sociology, documentary photography, and political science as well as more straightforward historical analysis. By the end of the class, students should have grounding in Black Chicago s history, as well as an appreciation of how this history outlines and anticipates Black life and racial politics in the modern United States.
Aut 09	27301	02	Introduction to Black Chicago, 1895-2005	Green, Adam	This course surveys the history of African Americans in Chicago, from before the 20th century to the near-present. In referring to that history, we treat a variety of themes, including: migration and its impact, origins and effects of class stratification; relation of culture and cultural endeavor to collective consciousness, rise of institutionalized religions, facts and fictions of political empowerment, and the correspondence of Black lives and living to indices of city wellness (services, schools, safety, general civic feeling). This is a history class that situates itself within a robust interdisciplinary conversation. Students can expect to engage works of autobiography and poetry, sociology, documentary photography, and political science as well as more straightforward historical analysis. By the end of the class, students should have grounding in Black Chicago s history, as well as an appreciation of how this history outlines and anticipates Black life and racial politics in the modern United States.
Aut 09	27604	01	Asian Amer/Legacies of War Cancelled	Mah, Theresa	This is a course that explores the ways in which U.S. wars in Asia have transformed Asian American social, economic, political and cultural life in the United States. Focusing on political conflicts and their aftermath rather than on the diplomatic or political relations between nations, the course will open up discussions of migration, citizenship, U.S. imperialism, nationalism, neo- and post-colonialism, and the production and use of racial representations in political conflict. We will pay particular attention to the ways in which these conflicts affect social relations and the production of knowledge. During the quarter, we will trace Asian American histories and experiences through the Philippine-American War, World War II, the Korean War and conflict in Southeast Asia. The broad scope of this course will also allow us to examine such topics as race, gender, national identity, power, violence and cultural production within specific historical contexts.
Aut 09	28102	01	Business Hist of the late 20th Century	Levin, Matthew	Full Title: Business History of the Late 20th Century: From the Decade of Decadence to the New Gilded Age. This seminar will explore the history of American business during the final two decades of the 20th century. Throughout this period, American business saw a transformation in the way risk was evaluated, capital was raised, and organizations were led. Above all, the rules of the game during this era were altered regarding corporate control, business management and wealth creation. We will explore the transformations in business culture during the 1980s and 1990s that have led to current trends and problems. Students interested in the recent history of Wall Street, financial markets, and business culture will enjoy this seminar. This class will also appeal to people intrigued by late 20th century American society - specifically how business and American industry have influenced America s identity. Those who may want to explore a career involving business should find the seminar helpful in preparing for many types of professions across disciplines.
Aut 09	28900	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 09	29301	01	Human Rgts 1	Fleischacker, Samuel	This course deals with the philosophical foundations of human rights. The foundations bear on basic conceptual and normative issues. We examine the various meanings and components of human rights and the subjects, objects, and respondents of human rights. We ask questions such as Who has the rights? What are they rights to? Who has the correlative duties? What methods of argument and implementation are available in this area? The practical implications of these theoretical issues are also explored.
Aut 09	29507	01	Colloq:Overcoming Torture:Past and Present	Geyer, Michael	The abolition of torture, as well as of cruel and inhuman punishment, is one of the key standards of achievement of the modern era. Some intellectuals even think of it as the quintessential epistemic break that separates the modern from a pre-modern age. Of course, this latter idea makes a good part of the world, including the United States, outright medieval and challenges the solidity of human rights standards. But the fact of nations turning to torture is not our main concern. Rather, we start from the fact of torture as a remarkably persistent reality in order to explore how, in different times and places, it was contained and how it was overcome (if only temporarily). Classic European cases will feature in the first part of discussion. Human-rights and humanitarian campaigns against torture in the second half of the twentieth century will be the subject of the second part. And the United States, past and present, will be the focus of the third part. This is a discussion class that requires sustained reading, persistent writing, and active participation.
Aut 09	29613	01	Hist Coll: Hyde Pk & Chgo's So. Side as Historic Laboratory	Conzen, Kathleen	FULL TITLE: "Colloquium: Hyde Park and Chicago's South Side as Historical Laboratory" This colloquium uses Hyde Park and Chicago's South Side as a case study to introduce students to issues and methodologies in the history and historical geography of American urban life during the past century and a half. Discussions will focus on both primary and secondary source readings, and each participant will design and carry out an original research project.
Aut 09	29700	##	Rdg/Rsch: History Ugrad	Staff
Aut 09	29801	01	Senior Seminar 1	Acevedo, John	This seminar provides students with a forum within which research problems are addressed and conceptual frameworks are refined. The class meets weekly throughout autumn and winter quarters.
Aut 09	29801	02	Senior Seminar 1	Amos, Jennifer	This seminar provides students with a forum within which research problems are addressed and conceptual frameworks are refined. The class meets weekly throughout autumn and winter quarters.
Aut 09	29801	03	Senior Seminar 1	Antov, Nikolay	This seminar provides students with a forum within which research problems are addressed and conceptual frameworks are refined. The class meets weekly throughout autumn and winter quarters.
Aut 09	29801	04	Senior Seminar 1	Houlihan, Patrick	This seminar provides students with a forum within which research problems are addressed and conceptual frameworks are refined. The class meets weekly throughout autumn and winter quarters.
Aut 09	29801	05	Senior Seminar 1	Staff	This seminar provides students with a forum within which research problems are addressed and conceptual frameworks are refined. The class meets weekly throughout autumn and winter quarters.
Aut 09	29801	06	Senior Seminar 1	Neptune, Jessica	This seminar provides students with a forum within which research problems are addressed and conceptual frameworks are refined. The class meets weekly throughout autumn and winter quarters.