fullname qtr yr	Crs	Sec	Title	Instructor	Description
Spr 12	10103	01	African Civ 3	Levine, Donald	Full Course Title: African Civ 3: Colonial African History In the late nineteenth century, European nations embarked on an ambitious effort to conquer and occupy Africa. This course considers the conditions that enabled the European Scramble for Africa and the long-lasting consequences of that project. We will use primary sources, secondary texts, fiction, and films to explore the meanings and manifestations of colonization for African peoples and societies. Specific themes to be investigated include: colonial institutions and systems of rule; social and political effects of colonialism; colonial religious movements; resistance and rebellion; nationalism and independence. Case studies will be drawn from French West Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and South Africa.
Spr 12	11801	01	The People of the book: Scriptural rivalry and Scriptural community in Judaism, Christianity and Islam	Nirenberg, David
Spr 12	13002	08	Hist of European Civ 2	Panzer, Sarah	"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.
Spr 12	13002	09	Hist of European Civ 2	Dunwoody, Sean	"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.
Spr 12	13002	10	Hist of European Civ 2	Craig, 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.
Spr 12	13003	01	Hist of European Civ 3	Tazzara, Corey	The third quarter supplements the two-quarter sequence of European Civilization and is chosen from several topics designed to expand a student's understanding of European civilization in a particular direction. Instructor's Title: Capitalism in the Italian Renaissance. This course will examine Renaissance society through the lens of economic life. The achievements of the Italian Renaissance were not isolated events but rather the products of an unusually dynamic, creative, and wealthy society. Indeed, Italians not only pioneered the business practices of early capitalism, but also created the first large-scale bourgeois society. Students will study a variety of sources, ranging from account books to short stories to scholarly articles, and will learn how to bring economic, sociological, and cultural interpretation to bear on a range of practices and institutions.
Spr 12	13003	02	Hist of European Civ 3	Tazzara, Corey	The third quarter supplements the two-quarter sequence of European Civilization and is chosen from several topics designed to expand a student's understanding of European civilization in a particular direction. Instructor's Title: Capitalism in the Italian Renaissance. This course will examine Renaissance society through the lens of economic life. The achievements of the Italian Renaissance were not isolated events but rather the products of an unusually dynamic, creative, and wealthy society. Indeed, Italians not only pioneered the business practices of early capitalism, but also created the first large-scale bourgeois society. Students will study a variety of sources, ranging from account books to short stories to scholarly articles, and will learn how to bring economic, sociological, and cultural interpretation to bear on a range of practices and institutions.
Spr 12	13300	01	Western Civ 3	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.
Spr 12	13700	00	America in World Civilization 3	Dailey, Jane	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.
Spr 12	13700	00	America in World Civilization 3	Staff	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.
Spr 12	13700	02	America in World Civilization 3	Briones, Matthew	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.
Spr 12	13700	05	America in World Civilization 3	Stansell,Christine	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.
Spr 12	15200	00	Intro to East Asian Civ 2	Ketelaar, James	This sequence on the civilizations of China, Japan, and Korea emphasizes major transformation in these cultures and societies from their inception to the present.
Spr 12	15200	01	Intro to East Asian Civ 2	Ketelaar, James	This sequence on the civilizations of China, Japan, and Korea emphasizes major transformation in these cultures and societies from their inception to the present.
Spr 12	15200	02	Intro to East Asian Civ 2	Ketelaar, James	This sequence on the civilizations of China, Japan, and Korea emphasizes major transformation in these cultures and societies from their inception to the present.
Spr 12	15200	03	Intro to East Asian Civ 2	Ketelaar, James	This sequence on the civilizations of China, Japan, and Korea emphasizes major transformation in these cultures and societies from their inception to the present.
Spr 12	15200	04	Intro to East Asian Civ 2	Ketelaar, James	This sequence on the civilizations of China, Japan, and Korea emphasizes major transformation in these cultures and societies from their inception to the present.
Spr 12	15200	05	Intro to East Asian Civ 2	Ketelaar, James	This sequence on the civilizations of China, Japan, and Korea emphasizes major transformation in these cultures and societies from their inception to the present.
Spr 12	15200	06	Intro to East Asian Civ 2	Ketelaar, James	This sequence on the civilizations of China, Japan, and Korea emphasizes major transformation in these cultures and societies from their inception to the present.
Spr 12	15801	01	Intro to the Middle East	Donner, Fred	An introduction to the history and cultures of the Middle East, from the neolithic to modern times, for those with little or no background. Topics include physical and human geography/ethnography of the Middle East, origins of human civilizations in the region, basic tenets of Islam, key themes in modern history of the region, modern Middle Eastern literature's, film and music.
Spr 12	16103	01	Latin American Civ 3	Tenorio, Mauricio	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.
Spr 12	16900	00	Anc Mediterranean World 3-Late Antique	Kaegi, Walter	Introduction to problems and changes from the late second to sixth century. Lectures and discussion. Principal aspects of change and historical interpretation of the ancient world. Readings from selected primary sources and modern scholarship. Assignments include: Peter Brown, The World of Late Antiquity, and primary sources. Mid-term and Final examination, with short paper.
Spr 12	16900	01	Anc Mediterranean World 3-Late Antique	Kaegi, Walter
Spr 12	16900	02	Anc Mediterranean World 3-Late Antique	Kaegi, Walter
Spr 12	17501	01	Sci/Cult/Soc 3: Med since Renaissance	Winter, Alison	This course is an examination of various themes in the history of medicine in Western Europe and America since the Renaissance. Topics include key developments of medical theory(e.g., the circulation of the blood and germ theory), relations between doctors and patients, rivalries between different kinds of healers and therapists, and the development of the hospital and laboratory medicine.
Spr 12	17502	01	Science/Culture/Society in West Civ 3	Evans, James	This civilizational sequence focuses on the origins and development of science in the West. Each quarter may be taken independently, although it is suggested that students take the entire sequence in order. This course examines various themes in the history of medicine in western Europe and America since the Renaissance. Topics will include key developments of medical theory (such as the circulation of the blood and germ theory), relations between doctors and patients, rivalries between different kinds of healers and therapists, and the development of the hospital and of laboratory medicine.
Spr 12	20707	99	Greek Antiquity & It's Legacy I	Hall, Jonathan
Spr 12	20909	99	Greek Antiquity & It's Legacy III	Hall, Jonathan
Spr 12	22001	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 middle 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.
Spr 12	22111	01	Mary and Mariology	Fulton, Rachel	More than a saint but less than God, no figure of Christian devotion other than Jesus Christ himself has inspired as much piety or excited as much controversy as the Virgin Mother of God. In this course, we will study the development of her image and cult from her descriptions in the Gospels through the modern papal definitions of Marian dogma so as to come to some understanding how and why this woman about whom the Gospels say so little has become a figure of such popular and theological significance. We will consider both the medieval flowering of her cult and its dismantling, transformation, transmission and reinvention in the centuries since.
Spr 12	22202	01	Jewish Hist and Society III	Auslander, Leora	This course is both an introduction to European Jewish history from the mid 19th century to the present and a case study in the history of diasporic, minority cultures. Key topics include the effects of urbanization and social mobility on Jewish life; transnational migration; Jewish engagement in colonialism, socialism and feminism as well as Zionism; consequences of the two world wars; changing forms of anti-Semitism; and the rebuilding of European Jewry following the Shoah. These issues will be addressed through intensive analysis of a variety of media; books, newspaper articles, cartoons and caricature, painting, photography, prints, advertisements, and film. Extensive use will be made of the Rosenberger and Sondheim collections in Special Collections and several sessions will be held in the study room of the Smart Museum.
Spr 12	23002	01	Protestant Reformation in Germany	Fasolt, Constantin	This course is designed to clarify and test the assumptions underlying the present state of knowledge about the Protestant Reformation. Its method consists of reading extensively in the historiography and reflecting intensively on the issues raised by that reading. So as to maintain a well-defined focus the course is largely limited to the Reformation in Germany. So as to develop a broad perspective the course is not limited to the most recent literature. We will begin with some of the most famous older interpretations (Hegel, Ranke, Engels, Troeltsch, Weber, Febvre). We will then go on to consider the redefinition of the historical agenda since the 1960's and the current state of our knowledge by reading the work of leading contemporary historians of the Reformation (e.g., Bernd Moeller, Thomas Brady, Heiko Oberman, Jean Delumeau, Peter Blickle, Heinz Schilling). I will focus on explaining the readings, but I will also leave room for questions and discussion.
Spr 12	23005	01	Commercial and Economic Exchange and Integration in Premodern Europe	Dunwoody, Sean	This course shall examine the geographies, the actors, the products, the institutions, and the consequences of interregional exchange and economic integration in pre-modern Europe between ca. 800 and 1700AD. With a starting point in the period of post-Roman economic disintegration of western Europe, we will learn how European merchants, consumers, and states began the slow process of reintegration over the next eight centuries, thereby establishing the means by which European merchants became capable of competing in the wider economic world from the late fifteenth century. This is a hybrid lecture-discussion course. Each session shall begin with a lecture on the daily topic, lasting roughly one-half of the class time. The remainder of each session will be dedicated to a discussion of the primary documents and the secondary literature assigned for that day.
Spr 12	23306	01	Europe, 1914-present	Zahra, Tara	This lecture course will provide an introductory survey to European history in the twentieth century. It aims to provide a critical overview of political, economic, social, and cultural developments. Topics covered will include: the causes, experiences, and effects of the First and Second World Wars, decolonization and the Cold War; transformations in society and economy, including changes in class- and gender relations, the changing place of religious belief, and the consequences of post-colonial immigration; mass politics and particularly the conflict between Bolshevism and Fascism, protest- and new social movements in the 1960s and 1970s, and anti-globalization mobilization at the end of the 20th century; issues of national sovereignty, raised by the Europeanism, Bolshevism and Americanism as well as the cha! ng! ing relations between European metropoles and peripheries. A reflection on the state of Europe today will conclude the course.
Spr 12	23407	01	Comparative Kingship: Rulers in 12th Century Europe	Lyon, Jonathan	The purpose of this course is to examine the different forms that kingship took in the Latin Christian kingdoms of Europe during the twelfth century. In the first half of the course, we will read and discuss a broad range of primary and secondary sources that will give us the opportunity to analyze critically kingship in England, France and Germany (the Holy Roman Empire). In the second half of the course, we will broaden our discussion to consider how other kingdoms in Europe including Scotland, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Hungary, Sicily, Aragon and Castile do and do not conform to more general models of 12th-century European kingship.
Spr 12	24111	01	The Japanese Empire and Nation Formations in East Asia	Chen, Wei-ti	The rise and fall of the Japanese colonial empire in the first half of the twentieth century is an event of singular important in the history of modern Japan as well as its concurrent East Asia. This course surveys the imperial or colonial roots of the formation of modern East Asian nations mainly Japan but also Taiwan, Korea, and China with a focus on the complex interplays between nationalism and imperialism or colonialism. By examining several key issues of colonial studies, we will look at the intertwinement and tensions between empire-building and nation-forming. All readings are in English.
Spr 12	24206	01	Medicine and Culture in Modern East Asian	Burns, Susan	This course will focus on the cultural history of medicine in China, Japan, and Korea from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1980s. We will be concerned with tracing the circulation of new medical knowledge and understanding its cultural and social implications. Topics to be explored include the introduction of "Western medicine" and its impact for "traditional" medicine, the struggles over public health, gender, medicine, and modernity, consumer culture and medicine. No knowledge of an East Asian language is required, but those with reading skills will be encouraged to utilize them.
Spr 12	24507	01	Everyday Maoism:work, daily life, and material culture in socialist China	Eyferth, Jacob	The history of Maoist China is usually told as a sequence of political campaigns: land and marriage reform, nationalization of industry, anti-rightist campaign, Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, etc. Yet for the majority of the Chinese population, socialism was as much about material changes as about politics: about the two-storey brick houses, electric lights and telephones (loushang louxia, diandeng dianhua) that the revolution had promised; about new work regimes and new consumption patterns or, to the contrary, about the absence of such change. If we want to understand what socialism meant for different groups of people, we have to look at the "new objects" of socialist modernity, at changes in dresscodes and apartment layouts, at electrification and city planning. We have to analyze workplaces and labor processes in order to understand how socialism changed the way people worked. We also have to look at the rationing of consumer goods and its effects on people's daily lives. The course has a strong comparative dimension: we will look at the literature on socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, to see how Chinese socialism differed from its cousins. Another aim is methodological. How can we understand the lives of people who wrote little and were rarely written about? To which extent can we read people's life experiences out of material objects?
Spr 12	24606	01	From the Qing Empire to Chinese National State	Hanneman, Stacie	This course is an investigation of Chinese history, as visible through certain points of interaction between China, non-China, and global patterns of historical development. It will explore the transition from Qing Empire to Chinese Nation State as a series of historical transformations and incorporation's mediated by global historical developments. In doing so, the course will attempt to build out an alternative to prevailing modes of interpreting Chinese history that frame it either in terms of Western impact-Chinese response or in terms of exclusively Chinese historical dynamics. By unpacking the historically specific practices and thought that constituted the transformation from Qing Empire to Chinese Nation State and the incorporation of both into a set of global relations and dynamics, the course seeks to denaturalize the transition from empire to nation state and put it into dialog with similar developments elsewhere in the world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Great
Spr 12	24710	01	Oral History and the Politics of Memory in Socialist China	Eyferth, Jacob	Perhaps more than most other national histories, the history of China has been shaped by selective remembering and forgetting. This course will look at how history was and is produced in China. We will look at official sites of memory (museums and memorials) and at official historiography. At the same time, we will ask to which extent local, unofficial memories can be recovered. We will look not only at the methodology of oral history interviewing but also at the interface of written and oral cultures: who wrote, and why? What was written down and what is not? How did transcription and ritualized retelling affect memory? We will look at the numerous collections and sound recordings of oral texts and memories produced in twentieth century China: recorded folk songs and folk stories in the Republican era; the Maoist Four Histories of families, villages, communes, and factories; the memoir literature of the 1980s; the systematic cataloguing and appropriation of local cultural heritage in the last decade. The course should also provoke self-critical reflections about how our work as historians differs from state attempts to permanently fix memories for administrative and political purposes.
Spr 12	25104	01	History and Philosophy of Biology	Richards, R. & Bloch, C.	This course will focus on pivotal moments in the history of biology from the Hippocratics and Aristotle in the Classical period and Descartes and Kant in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to Darwin and neurobiology in the last two centuries. We will explore relevant philosophical issues that arise in these moments, for instance: medicine as art or science, teleological causation, the nature of biological explanation, laws in biology, the physiology of sensation and perception, the use of images in science (including brain imaging), mind-body problems, eugenics, etc. A general concern throughout the course will be the ways biology might differ from or be similar to the other sciences. The format of the course will be short lectures followed by discussion. It is not assumed that the instructors will agree about many of the issues discussed.
Spr 12	25107	01	Sciences of Mind and the Moving Image	Winter, Alison	This course will examine the relationship between moving images, particularly motion-picture films, and the human sciences broadly construed, from the early days of cinema to the advent of fMRI. It will use primary source documents alongside screenings to allow students to study what the moving image meant to researchers wishing to develop knowledge of mind and behavior - what they thought film could do that still photography, and unmediated human observation, could not. The kinds of motion pictures we will study will vary widely, from infant development studies to psychiatric films, from documentaries to research films, and from films made by scientists or clinicians as part of their laboratory or therapeutic work, to experimental films made by seasoned film-makers. We will explore how people used the recordings they made, in their own studies, in communications with other scientists, and for didactic and other purposes. We will also discuss how researchers' claims about mental processes - perception, memory, consciousness, and interpersonal influence - drew on their understandings of particular technologies.
Spr 12	25807	01	The High Caliphate	Donner, Fred	Review of major developments in the history of the Islamic community from ca. 700 CE until ca. 1000 CE, with focus on the extensive secondary literature devoted to key issues, including: character of Umayyad rule, conversion and taxation, rise of piety-minded opposition, character of the "Abbasid revolution," nature of Abbasid rule, development of Shi´ism and åe Alid-Abbasid rivary, the Abbasid civil war, Byzantium and the caliphate, evolution of military institutions, vizierate and bureaucracy, rise of Samarra and the Samarra period, rise of regionalism, beginnings of Ism´ailism, commercial relations, the Buyid ascendancy.
Spr 12	25904	01	Islamic History and Society 3		Need course description
Spr 12	26209	01	Landscapes as Evidence: International Migration and the American Civ	Lopez, Sarah	Migration is an inherently spatial phenomenon; the study of migration is the study of places, people, processes, and the state. This course addresses the history of 20th century international migration with a focus on US-Mexico migration post WWII through the lens of the built environment. An interdisciplinary approach to the study of migration will incorporate urban and architectural histories, political economy, urban theory, ethnographies of individuals, families, and communities, material culture, and film to explore how North American cities and border regions are influenced by the continuous flow of people, ideas, dollars, and desire. We will engage concepts such as assimilation, transnationalism, diaspora, borderlands, and frontier, and investigate migrant experience, aspirations, ambivalence, and activism. Students will learn methods for conducting primary research on migration and places, and write a short original research paper on contemporary or historical migration and Chicago s built environment.
Spr 12	26413	01	Native Peoples and the State in Latin America	Barton, Matthew	This course will provide an historical background to contemporary indigenous movements throughout Latin America. Through a mixture of history, anthropology, political science, and anthropology, students will be able to contextualize the role of native populations in contemporary Latin American society. Questions to be addressed will include: the effect of indigenous populations on the formation of Latin American national identities; the changing roles of native populations in politics; and the role of the Church in indigenous affairs.
Spr 12	27400	01	Race & Racism in Amer Hist	Holt, Thomas	This lecture course examines selected topics in the development of racism, drawing on both cross-national (the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean) and multiethnic (African American, Asian American, Mexican American, and Native American) perspectives. Beginning with the premise that people of color in the Americas have both a common history of dispossession, discrimination, and oppression as well as strikingly different historical experiences, I hope to probe a number of assumptions and theories about race and racism in academic and popular thought. Two quizzes, midterm and final essay examinations required.
Spr 12	27711	01	Cultures of Consumption in the U.S.	Remus, Emily	This course explores the history of American consumer culture, reaching from the colonial period through the Cold War era. Drawing on both primary sources and modern scholarly interpretations, we will investigate key transformations in American consumer capitalism: the consumer boom of the eighteenth century; the market revolution and the feminization of consumption; the rise of the department store; the emergence of a mass market and the democratization of consumption; the commercialization of leisure; the development of modern advertising, credit, and sales; the proliferation of suburban shopping malls; and the globalization of American consumer culture. As we work to formulate and refine a useable historical definition of consumer culture, we will consider both celebrations and critiques of consumerism. Further, we will scrutinize the mutually constitutive interaction of consumption, gender, race, and class, as well as query how consumer culture shaped American values, politics, and national identity.
Spr 12	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.
Spr 12	28703	01	Baseball and American Culture, 1840-Present	Briones, Matthew	This course will examine the rise and fall of baseball as America's national pastime. We will trace the relationship between baseball and American society from the development of the game in the mid-nineteenth century to its enormous popularity in the first half of the twentieth century to its more recent problems and declining status in our culture. The focus will be on baseball as a professional sport, with more attention devoted to the early history of the game than to the recent era. Emphasis will be on using baseball as a historical lens through which we will analyze the development of American society rather than on the celebration of individuals or teams. Crucial elements of racialization, ethnicity, class, gender, nationalism, sexuality, and masculinity will be in play, as we consider the Negro Leagues, women's leagues, internment-era baseball, the Latinization and globalization of the game, and more.
Spr 12	29624	01	Hist Coll: Civil Rights & Cultural Revolution	Holt, Thomas	This course will examine the proposition that a cultural revolution in American life preceded and shaped the 1960s civil rights movement. Drawing on secondary and primary readings, music, film, and video resources, we will take a fresh look at the demographic, political, and economic developments conventionally viewed as sparking America's racial transformation by the mid-20th century. Since this course is designed to prepare undergraduates to undertake a major research project, its principal requirement is a substantial research paper.
Spr 12	29625	01	Hist Coll: The European Family	Lyon, Jonathan	This colloquium uses the family, one of the basic building blocks of human society, as a way of introducing students to issues and methodologies in the study of European history from the medieval period to the twentieth century. Students will have the opportunity to examine politics, economics, gender, religion, social structures and a variety of other subjects through the lens of the European family. Discussions will focus on both primary and secondary source readings, and each participant will design and carry out an original research project.
Spr 12	29700	##	Rdg/Rsch: History Ugrad	Staff