fullname qtr yr	Crs	Sec	Title	Instructor	Description
Spr 10	10102	01	African Civ 2	Staff	The second quarter of the African Civilization sequence takes up the classic question of continuity and change in African societies by examining the impact of colonialism on daily life. The course is structured in terms of critical themes in the study of modern African societies. The themes that we address include: the colonial experience, with particular emphasis on the symbolic and intimate dimensions of the colonial experience and anti-colonial movements and the construction of political imaginaries. Towards the end of the quarter, we will also consider the experience of everyday life in the context of neoliberal economic reform with a particular focus on popular culture and intimate practices. We will focus on the countries of South and South Eastern Africa: Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa and Madagascar.
Spr 10	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.
Spr 10	12100	01	War in the Middle Ages	Fulton, Rachel	In modern popular culture, the Middle Ages is often imaginatively synonymous with war: knights in shining armor, Vikings in their longships, Robin Hood with his longbow and "merry men." This lecture-discussion course seeks to complicate this image by examining warfare as a central fact of European civilized life. Problems to be addressed include the technology and economics of warfare, the sociology of warfare, major phases in the development of European warfare from the Carolingians through the Hundred Years' War, and the literary, religious, and psychological significance of war for the development of European civilization.
Spr 10	13002	07	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 10	13002	08	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 10	13002	09	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 10	13003	03	Hist of European Civ 3	Lyon, Jonathan	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 10	13003	05	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 10	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 10	13700	01	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 10	13700	02	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 10	13700	05	America in World Civilization 3	Bradley, Mark	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 10	15300	00	Intro to East Asian Civ 3	Choi, Kyeong-hee	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 10	15300	01	Intro to East Asian Civ 3	Choi, Kyeong-hee	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 10	15300	02	Intro to East Asian Civ 3	Choi, Kyeong-hee	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 10	15300	03	Intro to East Asian Civ 3	Choi, Kyeong-hee	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 10	15300	04	Intro to East Asian Civ 3	Choi, Kyeong-hee	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 10	15300	05	Intro to East Asian Civ 3	Choi, Kyeong,hee	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 10	15300	06	Intro to East Asian Civ 3	Choi, Kyeong-hee	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 10	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 10	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 10	16900	01	Anc Mediterranean World 3-Late Antique	Kaegi, Walter
Spr 10	16900	02	Anc Mediterranean World 3-Late Antique	Kaegi, Walter
Spr 10	17501	01	Sci/Cult/Soc 3: Med since Renaissance	Winter, Alison	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 10	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 10	18302	00	Colonizations 2 (confirm sec no)	Burns, Susan	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 10	18303	00	Colonizations 3(confirm sec number)	Chakrabarty, Dipesh	This course will concentrate on Frautz Fanon and M. K. Sandhi as two significant writers of colonial rule and discuss their legacies
Spr 10	18303	01	Colonizations 3	Staff	Need Course descriptions
Spr 10	18303	02	Colonizations 3	Staff	Need Course description
Spr 10	20204	01	Women in Modern Africa	Jean-Baptiste, Rachel	This course surveys key themes and debates in twentieth century colonial and post-colonial African women s history. Exploring both women s history and the history of gender, this course examines shifting conceptualizations of woman in diverse case studies and historical contexts across the continent. Topics to be explored include sexuality, reproduction and health; public activism and political roles; work and economic activity; religion; and policy and the law. Course material will include analyzing historical monographs, fiction, material culture, as well as a service-learning component with Chicago-based community organizations that focus on advocacy in Africa.
Spr 10	20503	01	Greek and Roman Historiography	Hawkins, Cameron	This course will provide a survey of the most important historical writers of the Greek and Roman world. We will read extensive selections from their work in translation, and discuss both the development of historiography as a literary genre and the development of history as a discipline in the ancient world. Finally, we will consider the implications these findings hold for our ability to use the works of Greek and Roman historical writers in our own efforts to construct narratives of the past.
Spr 10	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 10	22202	01	Jewish Hist and Society III	Auslander, Leora	Full Title: Jewish History and Society III: European Judaism as Minority Diasporic Culture This course is both an introduction to European Jewish history from the 18th century to the present and a case study in the history of diasporic, minority cultures. Key topics such as hassidism; the Jewish Enlightenment; emancipation; 19th century reform of religious practice; assimilation; Jewish cultural productions particularly in the visual arts; Zionism; and post-war Jewish life will be analyzed as sites of interaction between the polities and cultures within which Jews lived and Jewish practices. Extensive use will be made of the Rosenberger and Sondheim collections.
Spr 10	22405	01	Medieval Monasticism	Fulton, Rachel	This course focuses on the origins and development of monasticism as one of the central institutions of medieval Europe. Problems to be addressed include the appeal of asceticism in late antique society, the role of the monasteries in the collapse and preservation of European civilization, the social, economic and political impact of Benedictine monasticism on the development of western Europe, and the progressive reforms of this institution from Benedict to Francis.
Spr 10	23100	01	Renaissance East & West	Fleischer, Cornell	An examination of the Renaissance, c. 1400-1600, as a global rather than purely Western European phenomenon, with emphasis on comparison and interaction between Christendom and Islamdom.
Spr 10	23206	01	Europe in the Late Middle Ages	Lyon, Jonathan	This course is designed to provide students with an overview of major themes in the history of Western Europe between approximately 1000 and 1500 AD. Students will be introduced to a broad range of topics, including the Gregorian reform movement, the rise and decline of Papal Monarchy, the Crusades, urbanization, the development of universities, the Black Death, the Hundred Years War, and the growth of national monarchies. While this will principally be a lecture course, students will have the opportunity to analyze and discuss primary and secondary works during occasional classroom discussions.
Spr 10	23303	01	Europe, 1914-present	Auslander, Leora	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 10	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 10	23508	01	Religion & Politics in 16th Century Europe	Gray, Hanna	This course will focus on the interaction of religious controversy and political development in 16th century Europe, with attention also to the varieties of political thought and emerged in this time.
Spr 10	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 10	24603	01	Religion and Modernity in East Asia	Zhong, Yijiang	This course explores the global issue of the relationship between religion and modernity by focusing on a specific region, East Asia. Has religion given way to modernity, as secularization theory claims? How do we understand the inequality, suppression and violence taking place in modern societies that are inflicted by or onto religions? This course looks into these questions by examining the history of religions in China, Japan and Korea from the mid-nineteenth century to the present in relation to nation-state building, Western and Japanese colonialism, and modern discourses of reason and science. We will pay particular attention to the idea religion that originated in the West and did not exist in pre-modern East Asian cultures. The course is not meant to give a thorough historical survey of the religions of East Asia but to read and discuss how East Asian traditional ideas and practices were reconfigured into religions in order to become modern, and how these reconfigurations continue to generate tensions and problems in East Asian societies. Readings and discussion of this course will help bring about an understanding of the complex phenomenon of religion not only in contemporary East Asia but also in modern society in general.
Spr 10	24704	01	Nativism and Nationalism in Japan	Burns, Susan	This course will examine the various forms of discourse which have addressed issues of Japanese identity. Topics to be examined include Nativism and Mito Learning, Japanese ethnography (minzokugaku), the Japanese romantic school, and Nihonjinron. Requirements: in class presentations, series of book reviews, research paper. The course can be taken by students without knowledge of Japanese, but graduate students working on Japan will be asked to read in Japanese.
Spr 10	24909	01	Ideas of Nature II	Gugliatta, Angela	Courses in this sequence may be taken individually in any order. Raymond Williams writes that a history of the uses of the keyword nature would be a history of a large part of human thought. This courses shares many of the themes and analytical questions of ENST 28601, but extends them to the period from 1400 to 1900. We ask how ideas and images of nature were contested and reconstituted in such contexts as Medicean Florence, Enlightenment France, or ante-Darwinian England?
Spr 10	25100	01	Gender in Hist of Sci/Med	Winter, Alison	FULL TITLE: "Gender in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine" An examination of how notions of masculinity and femininity have influenced the history of science, technology, and medicine since 1600. Topics will include study of the rise of women in scientific and medical institutions and of the ongoing debates about whether men and women have (or have had) different ways of understanding the natural world.
Spr 10	25204	01	Econ/ Soc Hist of Euro, 1880-Pres	Craig, John	This course is a sequel to History 25203/35203, but the latter is not a prerequisite. It focuses on economic and social problems and debates identified with mature industrialization and the transition to a postindustrial and increasingly integrated Europe. Themes receiving particular attention include the crisis of the old rural order, international factor mobility (including migration), urbanization and "municipal socialism", the rise of the professions and the new middle class, the demographic and schooling transitions, the economic and social impact of business cycles, the world wars, and mass movements, the evolution and so-called crisis of the welfare state, and the social policies of the European Union.
Spr 10	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.
Spr 10	25510	01	Sciences of Memory in 20th century	Winter, Alison	This course will examine a series of episodes in the history of the understanding of autobiographical memory, beginning with the emergence of academic psychology, and also psychoanalysis, in the late nineteenth century, and ending with the "memory wars" of the 1980s and 90s. The course will include an examination of the yoked history of beliefs about individual and "collective" memory, of the impact of memory therapies during the first and second World Wars, of the impact of innovations in brain surgery on beliefs about the physiological memory record and the neurophysiology of remembering, and the impact of the rise of forensic psychology on the popular, scientific, and legal understanding of memory.
Spr 10	25904	01	Islamic History and Society 3	Staff	Need course description
Spr 10	26903	01	Love, Conjugality, and Capital: Intimacy in the Modern World	Majumdar, R. & Cole, J.	Are love and money necessarily opposed? Is arranged marriage primitive? Many would argue yes. It is widely accepted that in modern societies romantic love, the couple and the nuclear family are the correct ways to organize intimate life. But, like many other normative ideas, these too were the product of particular historical developments in post-enlightenment Europe. A look at societies in other parts of the world demonstrates all too often that modernity in the realm of love, intimacy and family had a different trajectory from the European one. To characterize marriage, love, and familial relationships as backward or retrograde on grounds of their difference with (normative) models prevalent in the west results in a fundamental misunderstanding of the variety of different ways that societies have forged intimate relations. This course surveys ideas and practices surrounding love, marriage, and capital in the modern world. Using a range of theoretical, historical, and anthropological readings as well as films the course will explore such questions as the emergence of companion marriage in Europe; arranged marriage, dowry, love and money. Case studies will be drawn primarily from Europe, India and Africa.
Spr 10	27900	01	Asian Wars of the 20th Century	Cumings, Bruce	This course examines the political, economic, social, cultural, racial, and military aspects of the major Asian wars of the 20th century: the Pacific War, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. At the beginning of the course we pay particular attention to just war doctrines, and then use two to three books for each war (along with several films) to examine alternative approaches to understanding the origins of these wars, their conduct and their consequences.
Spr 10	28603	01	The State in US History	Sparrow, James	Need course desciption
Spr 10	29410	01	Cultural Globalization: History and Theory	Lebovic, Sam	Something is happening to culture in an era of globalization but what it is ain't exactly clear. In recent years, both academic and public discourses have been awash with debates and buzzwords about cultural globalization: is cultural globalization new? Does it threaten or enhance cultural diversity? When culture crosses national borders does it hybridize, globalize, homogenize or coca-colonize? And, above all, how should we even go about studying these processes? Drawing on work in media and cultural studies, political science, anthropology, sociology, critical theory and history, this discussion-based course will allow us to think about the best ways to conceptualize the problem of cultural globalization. We will begin by tracing the diverse theoretical and political responses to international cultural flows since the 1970s. With a range of approaches under our belt, we will then turn to a study of the globalization of popular music in the twentieth century, seeking to understand cultural globalization through the histories of jazz, rock n roll, world music , hip-hop and the music industry. By the end of the quarter, students will have an understanding of the key theoretical responses to cultural globalization and of key moments in the history of that globalization, as well as the critical tools necessary to think about the problems of culture in a global age.
Spr 10	29620	01	Hist Colloq:Hitler's Empire: Europe under Nazi Rule	Zahra, Tara	This course will begin with an examination of the rise of Nazism in Germany in the 1930s and then focus on the history of the Nazi imperialism, conquest, and occupation in Europe during the Second World War. The course will focus equally on Eastern and Western Europe. Topics will include the Holocaust, Germanization, population policies, collaboration and resistance in daily life, economic plunder, gender and the family, and postwar retribution and ethnic cleansing.
Spr 10	29700	##	Rdg/Rsch: History Ugrad	Staff