fullname quarter	Crs	Sec	Title	Instructor	Description
Spring	10103	01	African Civ 3	Staff	This course sequence fulfills the Common Core requirement in civilization studies. This course presents the political, economic, social, and cultural development of sub-Saharan African communities and states from a variety of points from the pre-colonial past up to the present. The autumn quarter treats the social organization and political economy of several pre-colonial societies in southern, central, and eastern Africa. The winter quarter focuses on a comparative archaeological and ethnographic exploration of states and cities in East and West Africa, including an intensive examination of a stateless society in a modern post-colonial state (the Luo of Kenya). The spring quarter deals with a single region (the Manden of West Africa), covering village social structure and political economy, pre-colonial trade and empire, Islam, European colonialism, and post-colonial society.
Spring	13002	12	Hist of European Civ 2	Gullo, Kevin	"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.
Spring	13002	14	Hist of European Civ 2	Siarny, Gerry	"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.
Spring	13002	15	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.
Spring	13002	13	Hist of European Civ 2	Grischany, Thomas	"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.
Spring	13003	09	Hist of European Civ 3	Rothfeild, Lawrence	The third quarter supplements the two-quarter sequence of European Civiliation and is chosen from several topics designed to expand a student's understanding of European civilization in a particular direction.
Spring	13003	07	Hist of European Civ 3-Liberalism	Novak, William	This course is open to undergraduates who choose to take a third quarter of a European Civilizational sequence. Conceived as a capstone course to this sequence, this course takes a comparative and historical approach to one of the larger themes in modern history the changing nature and definition of modern liberalism. We will read and discuss many of the classic statements on modern liberalism from the texts of Locke, Smith, and Mill to the more recent extensions and revisions of John Dewey, Isaiah Berlin, and Richard Rorty. We will pay particular attention to those commentaries that utilize a comparative historical approach e.g., Hannah Arendt s comparison of the French and American Revolutions in On Revolution. And we will take note of some of the most devastating critiques of liberalism in the 20th century e.g, Carl Schmitt.
Spring	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.
Spring	13404	00	The French Revolution and European Political Culture	Cheney, Paul	Beginning in 1789 the French demolished their Old Regime, and set about regenerating the French nation by establishing a new political, cultural and social order. In the first part of this course, we will examine the extraordinary events of the revolutionary decade (1789-1799) in France. Beyond France, the Revolution initially provoked a wave of utopian excitement, but it also set in motion twenty-five years of almost uninterrupted warfare in Europe. We will therefore move on to a consideration of the wider impact of the French Revolution on European institutions and political culture. As we will see, this was often a highly paradoxical process; many of the reforms associated with a modern, enlightened state were imposed by a conquering French nation or by its "backward" enemies, which had to impose internal reform in order to better oppose the Napoleonic war machine. The materials for this course will include primary and secondary readings, as well as film screenings.
Spring	13404	01	The French Revolution and European Political Culture	Cheney, Paul	Beginning in 1789 the French demolished their Old Regime, and set about regenerating the French nation by establishing a new political, cultural and social order. In the first part of this course, we will examine the extraordinary events of the revolutionary decade (1789-1799) in France. Beyond France, the Revolution initially provoked a wave of utopian excitement, but it also set in motion twenty-five years of almost uninterrupted warfare in Europe. We will therefore move on to a consideration of the wider impact of the French Revolution on European institutions and political culture. As we will see, this was often a highly paradoxical process; many of the reforms associated with a modern, enlightened state were imposed by a conquering French nation or by its "backward" enemies, which had to impose internal reform in order to better oppose the Napoleonic war machine. The materials for this course will include primary and secondary readings, as well as film screenings.
Spring	13404	02	The French Revolution and European Political Culture	Cheney, Paul	Beginning in 1789 the French demolished their Old Regime, and set about regenerating the French nation by establishing a new political, cultural and social order. In the first part of this course, we will examine the extraordinary events of the revolutionary decade (1789-1799) in France. Beyond France, the Revolution initially provoked a wave of utopian excitement, but it also set in motion twenty-five years of almost uninterrupted warfare in Europe. We will therefore move on to a consideration of the wider impact of the French Revolution on European institutions and political culture. As we will see, this was often a highly paradoxical process; many of the reforms associated with a modern, enlightened state were imposed by a conquering French nation or by its "backward" enemies, which had to impose internal reform in order to better oppose the Napoleonic war machine. The materials for this course will include primary and secondary readings, as well as film screenings.
Spring	13700	05	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.
Spring	13700	02	America in World Civilization 3	Simons, Peter	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.
Spring	13700	03	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.
Spring	15300	00	Intro to East Asian Civ 3	Cumings, Bruce	This sequence on the civilizations of China, Japan, and Korea emphasizes major transformation in these cultures and societies from their inception to the present.
Spring	15300	01	Intro to East Asian Civ 3	Cumings, Bruce	This sequence on the civilizations of China, Japan, and Korea emphasizes major transformation in these cultures and societies from their inception to the present.
Spring	15300	02	Intro to East Asian Civ 3	Cumings, Bruce	This sequence on the civilizations of China, Japan, and Korea emphasizes major transformation in these cultures and societies from their inception to the present.
Spring	15300	03	Intro to East Asian Civ 3	Cumings, Bruce	This sequence on the civilizations of China, Japan, and Korea emphasizes major transformation in these cultures and societies from their inception to the present.
Spring	15300	04	Intro to East Asian Civ 3	Cumings, Bruce	This sequence on the civilizations of China, Japan, and Korea emphasizes major transformation in these cultures and societies from their inception to the present.
Spring	16103	01	Latin American Civ 3	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.
Spring	16303	01	Writing Colonial Latin America History	Lee, Kittiya	Through study of historical primary sources and critical reading of secondary sources about colonial Latin America, students will learn the history and geography of Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean from 1492 until the independence era in the early 1800s. This seminar-styled course is organized to prepare students to write and to speak knowledgeably about early Latin American history. For this reason, active participation in presentations, discussions, peer reviews and writing will be cores aspects of class requirements.
Spring	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.
Spring	16900	01	Anc Mediterranean World 3-Late Antique	Kaegi, Walter
Spring	16900	02	Anc Mediterranean World 3-Late Antique	Kaegi, Walter
Spring	17502	01	Science/Culture/Society in West Civ 3	Johns, Adrian	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. The advances science has produced have transformed modern life beyond anything that a person living in 1833 when the term 'scientist' was first coined could have anticipated. Yet science's dazzling success continues to pose questions that are both challenging and, in some instances, troubling. How will our technologies affect the environment? Should we prevent the cloning of humans? Can we devise a politically acceptable framework for the patenting of life? Such questions make it vitally important that we try to understand what science is and how it works, even if we ourselves never enter laboratories or do experiments. This course helps us achieve that understanding, whatever our initial level of scientific expertise. The course uses evidence from today's scientific controversies ranging from the human genome project to the international space station to throw light on the enterprise of science itself.
Spring	17601	01	Amer Revolution: Culture and Politics	Slauter, Eric	This course explores the causes and consequences of independence and the creation of national identity. Readings include texts by Abigail and John Adams, Franklin, Jefferson, and Paine, as well as histories describing the contributions of ordinary people, free and unfree, and the meaning of the Revolution for later generations.
Spring	17903	01	US Women's History	Stanley, Amy	This course explores the history of women in the modern United States and its meaning for the world of both sexes. Rather than studying women in isolation, it focuses on changing gender relations and ideologies, on the social, cultural, and political forces shaping women's lives, and on the implications of race, ethnic, and class differences among women. Topics include the struggle for women's rights; slavery and emancipation; the politics of sexuality; work; consumer culture; and the rise of the welfare state.
Spring	17904	01	History of American Secularism	Gilpin, W. Clark	This course will consider changing ideas of the secular, secularism, and secularization in the history of the United States from the American Revolution to the present.
Spring	18302	01	Colonizations 2	Fikes, Kesha	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.
Spring	18302	02	Colonizations 2	Wang Wen-Yi	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.
Spring	18303	02	Colonizations 3	Agrama, Hussein	This is the third quarter of .Colonizations,. a Civilization course that approaches the concept of .civilization. from an emphasis on cross-cultural/societal connections. This quarter will address the processes and consequences of decolonization both in the newly independent nations and the former colonial powers. The temporal focus will be on the period from 1945 to the present (but with .flashbacks. to the nationalist movements of the interwar period) and the geographic reach will include South-Asia, North and West Africa, and the Caribbean and the relevant colonial powers (Great Britain and France). We will start with a discussion of the independence movements, their intellectual and political foundations, political organization and strategy, as well as the responses to them by both the colonial authorities and international pol! itical organizations. It is, however, the period since independence that will be the focus of most of our attention, addressing the impact of different routes to independence on the new nations, the interactions of former colony and metropole, and the impact of globalization and European unification. Materials emphasize primary documents, including fiction, film, music and material culture. We will, however, also however read some secondary sources (history, anthropology, and sociology).
Spring	18303	01	Colonizations 3	Chakrabarty, Dipesh	Need Course descriptions
Spring	18500	01	Politics of Film in 20th-C Amer History	Cumings, Bruce	This course examines selected themes in twentieth-century American political history through both the literature written by historians, and filmic representations by Hollywood and documentary filmmakers. We will read one historical interpretation and view one film on themes like the following: Woodrow Wilson and WW I, the emergence of Pacific Rim cities like Los Angeles, Roosevelt's New Deal, the Japanese-American experience in World War II, McCarthyism and the Korean War, the cold war and the nuclear balance of terror, the radical movements of the 1960s, and multiculturalism in the 1990s.
Spring	18803	01	Civil Rights in 20th century America	Dailey, Jane	This course focuses on struggles over the definition of civil rights and who could claim them over the course of the twentieth century. The African American Freedom Movement is at the narrative center of this course, but other civil rights movements, such as the women's movement, the gay rights movement, and other ethnic-based rights movements will be discussed as well.
Spring	20103	01	Urban History in Colonial and Contemporary Africa	Jean-Baptiste, Rachel	Although towns and cities have existed in Africa since early times, the twentieth century ushered in unprecedented urbanization across the continent. How and why did people, societies, and states create, alter, and live in urban spaces in this era? What are the challenges of the sources and methods historians use to explore this question? This course introduces students to the craft of researching and writing African social history through the exploration of urban life in colonial and contemporary Africa. Course content will consist of primary source materials drawn from varied case studies across the continent. By studying a range of primary sources newspapers and popular literature, correspondence, sociological studies, novels and memoirs, government documents, film, and music the course will focus on how to critically assess and interpret sources. Themes to be addressed include: colonial and post-colonial states; architecture and urban planning; ethnicity, language, and identity; money and work; family, gender, and sexuality; leisure and popular culture; and rural-urban migrations.
Spring	20502	01	Empire and Enlightenment	Ando, Clifford	The European Enlightenments were a formative period in THE  development of modern historiography. Theirs was also an age in  which the expansionist impulse of European monarchies came under intense philosophical scrutiny, on moral, religious, cultural and economic grounds. We will chart a course through these debates by focusing in the first instance on Enlightenment histories of Rome, by Montesquieu, Robertson and Gibbon. We will consider, too, writings on law, history and international politics by Vico, Voltaire, Adam Smith, and others.
Spring	21702	01	Byzantine Empire, 610-1025	Kaegi, Walter	A lecture course, with limited discussion, of the principle developments with respect to government, society, and culture in the Middle Byzantine Period. Although a survey of event and changes, including external relations, many of the latest scholarly controversies will also receive scrutiny. No prerequisite. Readings will include some primary sources in translation and examples of modern scholarly interpretations. Final examination and a short paper.
Spring	22104	01	Colloq: Thinking/Acting Race in Europe	Auslander, Leora	This course 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 ostcolonial Europe, implications of Europeanification and German reunification for racial thinking, the new racism and anti-racist mobilizations.
Spring	22202	01	Jewish Hist and Society III	Auslander, Leora	Full Title: Jewish History and Society III: European Judaism as Minority Diasporic Culture This sequence surveys Jewish history and society from the era of the ancient Israelites until the present day. Students explore the ancient, medieval, and modern phases of Jewish culture(s) by means of documents and artifacts that illuminate the rhythms of daily life in changing economic, social, and political contexts.
Spring	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.
Spring	25300	01	Amer Revolution, 1763-1789	Cook, Edward	This lecture and discussion course explores the background of the American Revolution and the problem of organizing a new nation. The first half of the course uses the theory of revolutionary stages to organize a framework for the events of the 1760s and 1770s, and the second half of the course examines the period of constitution-making (1776-1789) for evidence on the ways in which the Revolution was truly revolutionary.
Spring	25505	01	Environment and the Body	Gugliotta, Angela	From the time of the Hippocratic medical text Airs, Waters and Places, the natural and built environments were understood to shape the states and characteristics of human bodies. This connection is evident through many centuries of medical theory and practice, as well as in arguments advanced for the climatic and geographical determination of racial traits. The relationship between the body and the environment became a matter of particularly intense political struggle in 19th century England and has become so again in our own time. This course will examine the history of conceptions of the environmental shaping of human bodies with particular attention to nineteenth and twentieth century conflicts over sanitation, disease theories and poverty and to contemporary debates over toxic contamination and health.
Spring	25705	01	Historical Sources and How to Exploit Them	Bauden, Frederic	This course will offer students the opportunity to examine a great variety of historical sources. The seminar has a two-fold aim: to show students how the scholar should approach such sources and to teach them how they should be used. Two main categories of (mostly handwritten) sources will be examined: 1) historiographic works representing various genres such as chronicles, annuls, biographical dictionaries, notebooks, diaries, and 2) documents, either official or private. The common link between these two categories is obviously the material medium: parchment or paper. With this in mind, epigraphy and numismatics will also be touched upon: these disciplines in fact require skills different from those implied by handwritten material. Several methods of approach, suitable for the various sources under consideration, will be developed during the seminar.
Spring	25802	01	U.S. Intervention and Regime Change in Latin America	Wolfe, Mikael	The US war in Iraq to force a regime change in March 2003 was hailed as a new departure in US foreign policy, but just how new was this policy of regime change? In this course, our focus and emphasis will be US interventions in Latin America, a region where preemptive regime change has long been operative US policy. Using the tools of historical research such as analyzing declassified US government documents and other illuminating sources, we will investigate the strategies and rationales behind US-backed or engineered regime changes, local resistance to and collusion with these operations, and their historical consequences via three case studies: Guatemala in the 1940s and 1950s, Chile in the 1960s and 1970s, Nicaragua in the 1980s, with a view towards their implications for Venezuela in the present.
Spring	25904	01	Islamic History and Society 3	Shissler, Holly
Spring	26005	01	Coll: Sources for the Study of Islamic History	Woods, John	This course is designed to acquaint the student with the basic problems and concepts as well as the sources and methodology for the study of premodern Islamic history. Sources will be read in English translation and the tools acquired will be applied to specific research projects to be submitted as term papers. Offered in alternate years.
Spring	26500	01	Hist of Mexico, 1876-pres	Katz, F. & Kourí, Emilio	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.
Spring	26702	01	Historical Introduction to Indian Cinema	Majumdar, Rochona	This is a survey of Indian cinema starting in the silent era, covering the early talkie and studio period, the rise of art and regional cinemas, up to the recent advent of "Bollywood." It explores the rise of cinema in India in the age of Empire and traces the many faces of the cinematic tradition in the country over a ninety year period. Often all Indian cinema is conflated with Bollywood. While that is a mistake, it is impossible to understand Bollywood, the most popular and globalized version of Indian cinema, without contextualizing it in a longer history of Indian film.
Spring	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 present. Referencing episodes from that history, we will 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 the 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, etc). Of necessity, this will be a history class that acknowledges its place within a robust interdisciplinary conversation. Students can expect to read works of autobiography and poetry, sociology, documentary photography, political science, and criminology, as well as more straightforward historical analysis. By the end of the class, students should have grounding in the history of Black Chicago, as well as an appreciation of how this history outlines and anticipates a broader account of Black life and racial politics in the modern United States.
Spring	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.
Spring	27403	01	Af-American Lives & Times	Holt, Thomas	This colloquium will examine selected topics and issues in African-American history during a dynamic and critical decade, 1893 and 1903, that witnessed the redefinition of American national and sectional identities, social and labor relations, and race and gender relations. A principal premise of the course is that African American life and work was at the nexus of the birth of modern America, as reflected in labor and consumption, in transnational relations (especially Africa), in cultural expression(especially music and literature), and in the resistance or contestation to many of these developments. The course will focus on the Chicago World's Fair and the publication of Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk as seminal moments in the era. Our discussions will be framed by diverse primary materials, including visual and aural sources, juxtaposed with interpretations of the era by various historians. A principal goal of the course is that students gain a greater appreciation for interpreting historical processes through in-depth examination of the complex and multiple currents of an defined era-a slice of time--as well as skills in interpreting diverse primary sources.
Spring	27803	01	Civil Rights History	Green, Adam	This course offers an intensive survey of the Little Rock Central High School desegregation struggles beginning in 1957, as a landmark episode in modern Civil Rights history. We will engage emerging and established literatures on the Central High story, African American movement activism, and the relationship of the Little Rock episode to both national movement and national political cultures, as well as selected primary sources. Besides evident thematic concerns (social activism, white backlash or conservative resistance, constitutional questions of governmental authority, horizons and limits of the ideology of the New South, the viability of racial liberalism in the 1950 s U.S., education as a terrain of social struggle) this class will also address the role of history and memory together in establishing how the Civil Rights Movement has been, and is, remembered.
Spring	27804	01	The Color of justice	Neptune, Jessica	This discussion-based class will historicize the political, economic, and social conditions that produce the prison industrial complex, paying close attention to the racial and gendered discourses that enable the incarceration of over 2 million people in the United States. We will analyze these racial discourses to understand how incarceration can be made to appear necessary, natural, and inevitable. The class will examine historical concepts and practices regarding race and punishment, the war on drugs, racial dynamics of the politics of law and order, police brutality, the impact of the Civil Rights Movement on American penal practice and politics and inversely the impact of penal practices on civil rights advancements, the Anti-Prison Movement and the role of the prison in the Black Power Movement, as well as the significance of class in punishment practices and the growing impact of the carceral state on women of color. These questions will be put into the context of larger questions including the complex relationship between changes in American political economy in particular, deindustrialization in the 1960s and 70s, and globalization in the 1990s and changes in American penal practice and ideology. The last unit of this course will situate this discussion in relation to the U.S. "War on Terror" in an attempt to understand the linkages between state discourses of surveillance, policing, and punishment against racialized enemies in both domestic and global arenas.
Spring	28000	01	US Latinos: Origins & Histories	Gutierrez, Ramon	An examination of the diverse social, economic, political, and cultural histories of those who are now commonly identified as Latinos in the United States. Particular emphasis will be placed on the formative historical experiences of Mexican-Americans and Puerto Ricans. Topics include cultural and geographic origins and ties; imperialism and colonization; the economics of migration and employment; work, women, and the family; and the politics of national identity.
Spring	28201	01	US Civil War and Reconstruction, 1846-1890	Saville, Julie	An exploration of the coming, course and contestation of the outcomes of the U.S. civil war and the postwar crisis of Reconstruction.
Spring	28400	01	Mod Amer Legal Hist	Novak, William	This course explores the role of law in history and of history in law through a survey of American legal developments from the Civil War to the present. It treats the law not as an autonomous process or science, but as a social phenomenon inextricably intertwined with other historical forces. This quarter will will examine the life of the law in America through the twentieth century, exploring the interrelationships between changes in legal institutions and doctrines and larger social processes like industrialism, reform, state building, social-welfare legislation, and civil rights struggle. We will be particularly concerned with the rise of a new American liberal legal order.
Spring	28501	01	Historiography of Asian Amer Studies	Mah, Theresa	Asian American studies is a dynamic field with a forty year history. In recent years, scholarship on Asian Americans has undergone enormous growth and change, much of it reflecting the shifting demographics of Asians in the United States well as theoretical developments in the various academic disciplines that contribute to the field. This course is meant to be both an introduction to the field as well as an opportunity to critically examine the present state of Asian American scholarship and its future direction. During the quarter, we will familiarize ourselves with some of the classic texts in Asian American studies, identifying various approaches and debates, while also carefully considering historical contexts in which the works were written. Readings will alternate between historical narrative and theoretical works meant to provide the tools with which to think about how historical narratives are written. While tracing the development of the field from its founding in the late 1960s to the present, the course will also trace the 150 year history of Asians in the United States and encourage thoughtful discussion on related topics such as race, representation, immigration, gender, class, identity, community and politics.
Spring	28502	01	Beginning After the End: Reconstruction in Post-Catastrophic Societies	Stansell, Christine	In the twentieth century, political violence has led to mass disasters with increasing frequency. This course examines how people rebuild and reorganize families, communities, and nations after disasters which decimated their societies beyond recognition; and how outsiders aid workers, relief organizations, armies, observers have helped and how they ve hindered. The course addresses questions of human rights, justice, politics, social bonds, memory, policy and international relations in a historical framework. We will begin by considering Jewish survivors after World War II. We will then examine the two catastrophes of genocidal violence and their aftermaths: Cambodia, where the Khmer Rouge murdered one-quarter of the population in 1975-78; and Rwanda, where Hutu extremists set off a genocidal campaign that killed 800,000 people, the majority of them Tutsi, in 1994.
Spring	29308	01	Nature as Technology: A Philosophical and Historical Investigation	Pearce, Trevor	This seminar explores the historical development of philosophers and scientists analogies between technological artifacts and products of nature. Beginning with Plato s suggestion that divine tech produces natural things, we will examine the claim, which extends from ancient philosophy to present-day science, that nature is a kind of technology. For thinkers like Descartes and Leibniz, God was a divine engineer; likewise, some modern biologists and philosophers have interpreted natural selection as a kind of engineering or tinkering. Once we have analyzed these various historical perspectives, we will be in a better position to discuss recent debates in biomechanics and engineering over the pros and cons of a technology that attempts to mimic nature.
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Spring	29900	01	Tolkien: Medieval & Modern	Fulton, Rachel	J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings is one of the most popular works of imaginative literature of the twentieth century. This course seeks to understand its appeal by situating Tolkien's creation within the context of its medieval sources and modern parallels. Possible themes to be addressed include the nature of history and its relationship to story, the activity of creation and its relationship to language, and the interaction between the world of "faerie" and religious belief. Prerequisite: Students must have read the Lord of the Rings trilogy prior to the first day of class.