| fullname qtr yr | Crs | Sec | Title | Instructor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spr 09 | 10201 | 01 | Themes in West African History | Osborn, Emily | This course will explore major themes in West African history, from the emergence of the Empire of Mali in the thirteenth century through the jihad of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the European colonial conquest and occupation of Africa in the nineteenth century. Themes of study include: the expansion of Islam; the creation of ethnic trading diasporas; the trans-Atlantic slave trade; metissage and the creation of coastal Creole communities; and legitimate commerce. |
| Spr 09 | 12200 | 01 | Religion & Soc in Medieval Spain | Pick, Lucy | This course traces relations between Christians, Muslims, and Jews in medieval Spain. We will consider such topics the myths Christians used to explain their defeat by the Muslims, the idea of Reconquest, the military leader, El Cid, the pilgrimage road to Compostela, the missionary activity of the Ramon Llull to both Muslim and Jews, and the role of Isabel of Castile. |
| Spr 09 | 12800 | 01 | Music in West Civ, 1750-pres | A two-quarter sequence in the history of Western music from its origins through the present, emphasizing the evolution of musical style. History 12700 covers music up to 1750, including the medieval, renaissance, and baroque periods; History 12800 covers music from the classical ear until the present. Either course fulfills the general education requirement in the musical, visual, and dramatic arts and may be taken individually. Students must confirm enrollment by attending one of the first two sessions of class. | |
| Spr 09 | 13002 | 09 | Hist of European Civ 2 | "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 09 | 13002 | 10 | Hist of European Civ 2 | Boyer, 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 09 | 13002 | 12 | 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 09 | 13002 | 11 | Hist of European Civ 2 | Lyon, Jonathan | "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 09 | 13002 | 09 | Hist of European Civ 2 | 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. |
| Spr 09 | 13003 | 05 | Hist of European Civ 3 | Cheney, Paul | 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. |
| Spr 09 | 13003 | 01 | Hist of European Civ 3 | Palmer, Jennifer | 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. |
| Spr 09 | 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 09 | 13700 | 01 | 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 09 | 13700 | 03 | America in World Civilization 3 | Sparrow, James | 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 09 | 13700 | 05 | America in World Civilization 3 | Sparrow, James | 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 09 | 15200 | 00 | Intro to East Asian Civ 2 | Burns, Susan | 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 09 | 15200 | 01 | Intro to East Asian Civ 2 | Burns, Susan | 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 09 | 15200 | 02 | Intro to East Asian Civ 2 | Burns, Susan | 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 09 | 15200 | 03 | Intro to East Asian Civ 2 | Burns, Susan | 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 09 | 15200 | 04 | Intro to East Asian Civ 2 | Burns, Susan | 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 09 | 15200 | 05 | Intro to East Asian Civ 2 | Burns, Susan | 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 09 | 15200 | 06 | Intro to East Asian Civ 2 | Burns, Susan | 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 09 | 16103 | 01 | Latin American Civ 3 | Borges, Dain | This sequence fulfills the common core requirement in civilizational studies by introducing students to the history and cultures of Latin America, including Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean Islands. Autumn quarter examines the origins of civilizations in Latin America with a focus and the political, social, and cultural features of the major preColumbian civilizations of the Maya, Inca, and Aztec. The quarter concludes with consideration of the Spanish and Portuguese conquest and the construction of colonial societies in Latin America. Winter quarter addresses the evolution of colonial societies, the wars of independence, and the emergence of Latin American nation-states in the changing international context of the nineteenth century. Spring quarter focuses on the twentieth century, with special emphasis on the challenges of economic, political, and social development in the region. |
| Spr 09 | 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 09 | 16900 | 01 | Anc Mediterranean World 3-Late Antique | Kaegi, Walter | |
| Spr 09 | 16900 | 02 | Anc Mediterranean World 3-Late Antique | Kaegi, Walter | |
| Spr 09 | 17501 | 01 | Sci/Cult/Soc 3: Med since Renaissance | staff | 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 09 | 17502 | 01 | Science/Culture/Society in West Civ 3 | staff | 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. |
| Spr 09 | 17803 | 01 | Amer Politics & Society, 1865-Present | Dailey, Jane | This course explores the development of American politics and society since Emancipation. Special emphasis is placed on the expansion of fundamental rights and the impact of war on American society. |
| Spr 09 | 18302 | 00 | Colonizations 2 (confirm sec no) | 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. | |
| Spr 09 | 18303 | 01 | Colonizations 3 | Need Course descriptions | |
| Spr 09 | 18303 | 02 | Colonizations 3 | ||
| Spr 09 | 18600 | 01 | US Labor History | Stanley, Amy | This course will explore the history of labor and laboring people in the United States. The significance of work will be considered from the vantage points of political economy, culture, and law. Key topics will include working-class life, industrialization and corporate capitalism, slavery and emancipation, the role of the state and trade unions, race and sex difference in the workplace. |
| Spr 09 | 20003 | 01 | African American Religion: Themes and Issues | Evans, Curtis | This is an introductory course on the history and religious experiences of African Americans. I focus especially on the social and cultural context of the evolution of African American religion, relationships between black and white churches, and black and white interpretations of African American religion. |
| Spr 09 | 21004 | 01 | Roman Law | Ando, Clifford | The course will treat several problems arising in the historical development of Roman law: the history of procedure; the rise and accommodation of multiple sources of law, including the emperor; the dispersal of the Roman community from the environs of Rome to the wider Mediterranean world; and developments in the law of persons. We will discuss problems like the relationship between religion and law from the archaic city to the Christian empire, and between the law of Rome and the legal systems of its subject communities. |
| Spr 09 | 21400 | 01 | 18th-Century Britain | Cook, Edward | This mixed lecture and discussion course explores the main political, social, intellectual, economic, and religious developments in Britain from the Glorious Revolution to the Napoleonic wars. Emphasis is on the relationship between politics and the social order, and on the evolution of modes of political behavior. |
| Spr 09 | 22002 |
01 | Byzantine Military History | Kaegi, Walter | Interpretation of major issues of institutional, operational, and strategic history, between the fourth and fourteenth centuries. Readings include selections from Byzantine military manuals and historians, as well as recent historical assessments. Among topics are debates on the theme system and numbers. Final examination and short paper. |
| Spr 09 | 23003 | 01 | Urban Europe 1600-present | Craig, John | This course examines the growth, structure, and impact of urban Europe from an era of guilds, merchant capitalism, and state-building to the present. Attention goes both to the changing forms and functions of urban systems and to the defining features of different categories of town and city to the occupational structure, the built environment, the provisioning, the physical and other disamenities, the policing, and so on. Emphasis is on the spatial, the economic, the social, and the political, but consideration is also given to shifting images of urban life, pro and con, and to current thinking about the prospects of urban Europe. |
| Spr 09 | 23300 | 01 | Capitalism in Mod Euro | Sewell, William | Full Title: Emergence of Capitalism in Early Modern Europe This course investigates the emergence of capitalism in Europe and the world as a whole between the early sixteenth and the late eighteenth centuries. We discuss the political and cultural as well as the economic sources of capitalism and explore Marxist, neoclassical, and cultural approaches. |
| Spr 09 | 23401 | 01 | Genocide Euro Jews, 1933-1945 | Wasserstein, Bernard | A lecture-discussion course which asks the following questions: What explanations can be offered for the mass murder of the Jews in Europe? Who were the perpetrators? What were the respective roles of the German police apparatus, of the German army, of the Nazi Party, of the state bureaucracy, of ordinary Germans? What were the responses of occupied populations in Europe, of neutral countries, of the Allies, and of Jews themselves? How have historical interpretations evolved over the past half-century? |
| Spr 09 | 24302 | 01 | Society and the City in Edo Japan | Burns, Susan | This course will examine urban society in 18th century with a particular focus on the city of Edo. Emphasis is on the analysis of primary sources (in translation) to explore issues of status, gender, the family, and labor. |
| Spr 09 | 25904 | 01 | Islamic History and Society 3 | ||
| Spr 09 | 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. |
| Spr 09 | 26602 | 01 | Mughal, India: Tradition and Transition | Alam, Muzaffar | Full Title: Mughal, India: Tradition and Transition This course will focus on the period of Mughal rule, from the late sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. This period exhibits signs of both continuity and change in relation to the earlier period of the Sultanate of Delhi, but there is also clear evidence of institutional change over the period of Mughal rule itself. The course will focus on some selected issues that have been at the centre of historiographical debate in the past decades. Some of the major texts on the basis of which Mughal legitimacy was defined and defended in the period will be discussed. The new efforts in the eighteenth century to define a stable basis for Mughal rule after the challenges posed from the outside and the provinces will be examined. The course will also deal with the role of language and religious traditions in Mughal politics, including the attempts in the period to translate scriptures and holy books of one tradition into another. Finally, there will also be an attempt to place the Mughal world in a wider context, in relation to Central Asia and Iran. |
| Spr 09 | 27805 | 01 | 19th Century US Western History | Conzen, Kathleen | Need course description |
| Spr 09 | 28702 | 01 | Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations | Fasolt, Constantin | Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations is one of the most important works of philosophy written in the twentieth century. Its influence has reached far and wide beyond the limits of philosophy. Yet its meaning remains deeply controversial. This is in part because Wittgenstein broke radically with some of the most common assumptions human beings, especially educated human beings, like to make about themselves, their minds, and the world. It is also because Wittgenstein's philosophical method made it a point of principle to propose no theories of any kind. The purpose of this course is to clarify the meaning of the Philosophical Investigations as far as is possible in ten weeks. The format will consist of a flexible mixture of lecture, commentary, and discussion of selected passages, points of special interest, and the significance of Wittgenstein's views for people other than philosophers. |
| Spr 09 | 29000 | 01 | Lat Am Religions, New & Old |
Borges, Dain | This course will consider select pre-twentieth-century issues, such as the transformations of Christianity in colonial society and the Catholic Church as a state institution. It will emphasize twentieth-century developments: religious rebellions; conversion to evangelical Protestant churches; Afro-diasporan religions; reformist and revolutionary Catholicism; new and New-Age religions. |
| Spr 09 | 29301 | 01 | Human Rgts 1 | Staff | 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. |
| Spr 09 | 29408 | 01 | Human Rights in Mexico | Gzesh, Susan | This course will examine human rights in Mexico from the early 20th century to the present. It begins with the notion of rights created in the post-revolutionary Constitution of 1917, through the consolidation of the relationship between the individual, sectors of society, and the state in the Cardenas period. The course will examine the role of Mexico in the formation of international and regional human rights agreements as well as Mexico s role as a country of refuge for political exiles. The second half of the course will focus on two contemporary case studies. In the area of civil and political rights, it will examine the 1968 massacre of students in Mexico City. In the area of economic, social, and cultural rights, it will examine either agrarian reform and right to land in west-central Mexico or the situation of indigenous peoples in southern Mexico. A reading knowledge of Spanish and good oral comprehension, and at least one course on Latin American history or culture are required. |
| Spr 09 | 29614 | 01 | Hist Coll: Varieties of Intellectual History | Goldstein, Jan | This discussion course will introduce undergraduates to the varieties of intellectual history through a sampling of the abundant scholarly literature on two pivotal modern thinkers, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Sigmund Freud. The course will be divided into two parts, one on each thinker. Each part will begin with a consideration of selected texts by Rousseau or Freud, followed by a consideration of a series of books and articles that, using very different methodologies, seek to make sense of those texts, account for their origins, or assess their impact. Although the course is open to all undergraduates, history majors interested in intellectual history should find it particularly helpful in framing topics for their B.A. essays. |
| Spr 09 | 29700 | ## | Rdg/Rsch: History Ugrad | Staff |