Courses in Historiography, Theory, and Practice |
16:510:500, 502The Historian's Craft (1.5, 1.5) Introduction to the professional study of history, to the diverse methodological approaches of current historiography, and to the place of historical scholarship in both academic and non- academic spheres. Staff. First-year graduate students only. |
16:510:501Colloquium: History of Historical Writing (3) Exploration of the evolution of historical writing in varying cultural and chronological contexts, but excluding contemporary historiographic theory and practice. Kelley, Morrison, Reinert |
16:510:503Contemporary Historiography-Theory and Practice (3) Impact of social and literary theories on the work of recent prominent historians, including assessments of the utility and testability of such theories in contemporary historical practice. Lears, Livingston, Yans-McLaughlin |
16:510:505Statistical Methods in History (3) Analysis of secondary literature employing quantitative methods, design, implementation, and presentation of an original historical research problem involving statistical techniques and computer applications. Bell |
16:510:507Historical Editing (3) Jenkins |
16:510:509Teaching of History (3) Designed for second- or third-year students, including first-time teaching assistants. Offers guidance and practical experience in undergraduate instruction. Adas, Bell, Howard |
Courses with Transnational, Comparative, or Interdisciplinary Themes |
16:510:511Colloquium in Comparative History (3) Adas, Bennett, Howard |
16:510:513Colloquium in Cultural History (3) Fabian, Lears, Matsuda, Satter |
16:510:515Colloquium in Diplomatic History (3) Curruthers, Foglesong |
16:510:517Colloquium in Economic History (3) Survey of the principal problems and methodologies in economic history. Livingston, Triner-Besosa |
16:510:519Colloquium in Intellectual History (3) An investigation of consciousness-past and present-through the writings of philosophers, moralists, and cultural critics from the 17th through the 20th centuries. Bay, Lears, Livingston, Satter, Yans-McLaughlin |
16:510:521Colloquium in Labor History (3) Cobble, Livingston |
16:510:523Colloquium in Migration, Community, and Identity (3) Immigration, community, and identity formations among immigrants. Dynamics of assimilation and its opposites in selected cultural and chronological contexts. Yans-McLaughlin |
16:510:525Colloquium in Political History (3) O'Neill |
16:510:527Topics in the History of Religion (3) Selected issues and relevant historiography in the history of religion. Specific cultural and historical context varies according to the interests of the instructors. Lears, Mack, Morrison, Reinert |
16:510:529Topics in the History of Sexuality (3) Problems and historiography on the history of sexuality in selected historical and cultural contexts. Jones, Reinert, Scott, Smith |
16:510:531Colloquium in Social History (3) Introduction to European and American social history, with emphasis on historical demography, the family, class structure and social stratification, protest, and culture. Gillis, Reed |
16:510:532Colloquium in Atlantic History and the African Diaspora (3) Examines the connected histories of Africa, Europe, and the Americas and the experiences of peoples of African descent. Bay, Bennett, Ca. Brown, Ch. Brown, Butler, Hewitt, Howard, Morgan, White |
16:510:533Topics in Social History (3,3) Gillis, Reed |
16:510:534Colloquium in Environmental History (3) Studies how environments and cultures have interacted throughout human history. Adas, Israel, Schrepfer, Scranton |
16:510:535Colloquium in the History of Technology (3) Explores how culture has shaped technology as well as the social impacts of technology. Adas, Geselowitz, Israel, Scranton |
16:510:536Colloquium in the History of Health and Medicine (3) How culture has shaped medical and scientific knowledge and how ideas about health and illness have influenced aspects of culture. J. Golden, Herschbach, Livingston, Marsh, Reed, Wailoo |
16:510:537Colloquium in Urban History (3) Introduction to the urbanization process, with emphasis on the city building process, social mobility and social structure, ethnicity, social and geographic mobility, political and social reform. Howard, Isenberg |
16:510:539Colloquium in Women's and Gender History (3) Women's and gender history across national/cultural contexts and time periods. Basch, Davis, Gillis, Jones, LeGall, J. Lewis, Morgan, Smith, White, Yans-McLaughlin |
16:510:541(F) Colloquium in World History (3) Focuses on a specific problem or set of problems in world history using readings designed to promote an understanding of the relevant theoretical and analytical literature. Ch. Brown, Howard. Prerequisite: Admission to Ph.D. program. |
16:510:543Seminar in Cultural History (3) Lears, Matsuda |
16:510:545Seminar in Economic History (3) |
16:510:546Seminar I in the History of Technology, Environment, and Health: History and Social Theory (3) Theoretical perspectives, drawn chiefly from the social sciences, emphasizing their role in initiating historical research projects. Israel, Pauly, Reed, Schrepfer, Scranton |
16:510:547Seminar II in the History of Technology, Environment, and Health (3) Directed research related to the global history of technology, environment, and health. Israel, Pauly, Reed, Schrepfer, Scranton |
16:510:549,550Seminar in the History of Women (3,3) Davis, Garrison, Hewitt, Jones, J. Lewis, Mack, Morgan, Smith, Yans-McLaughlin. |
16:510:551(S) Seminar in World and Comparative History (3) Directed research in projects related to a specific theme (such as immigration, imperialism, comparative gender ideologies) that are announced in advance by the instructor. Adas, Ch. Brown, Howard, Roden. Prerequisite: Admission to Ph.D. program. |
Courses in American History |
16:510:553Problems and Directed Readings in African-American History (3) Survey of African-American history and historiography. Bay, Makalani, Murch, White |
16:510:555Problems and Directed Readings in American History I (3) Introduction to the history and historiography of 16th to 18th- century North America. Emphasis on encounters in early America between Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans; comparative experiences of Spanish (Caribbean and Mexico), French (Canada), and English; colonial society and politics; Atlantic economy and slavery; 18th-century revolutions and nation building. Designed to help students prepare for qualifying exams and to teach the U.S. survey. Ch. Brown, Clemens, J. Lewis, Morgan |
16:510:557Problems and Directed Readings in American History II (3) Introductory survey of history and historiography. America from the early 19th through early 20th centuries, covering key themes of political, military, social, and cultural development. Clemens, W. Gillette, Hewitt, Lears, J. Lewis, Livingston, White |
16:510:559Problems and Directed Readings in American History III (3) Introductory survey of history and historiography. America from the early 20th century to the present, covering key themes of political, military, social, and cultural development. Chambers, Foglesong, Lawson, J. Lewis, Livingston, O'Neill, Yans-McLaughlin |
16:510:560Problems and Directed Readings in Women's and Gender History (3) Introduction to the problems and concepts of women's history on an international scale. Hewitt, Jones, Mack, Morgan, Smith, Yans-McLaughlin |
16:510:561Colloquium in American History (3) Chambers, O'Neill, Schrepfer |
16:510:563Colloquium in African-American History (3) Bay, White |
16:510:565Colloquium in American Legal History (3) Focuses on the interplay between law and social change in American legal history. Clemens |
16:510:567Seminar in American Colonial History (3) Clemens, J. Lewis |
16:510:569Seminar in America in the Civil War (3) |
16:510:571Seminar in Recent American History (3) Markowitz, O'Neill, Yans-McLaughlin |
16:510:573Seminar in African-American and American History (3) Bay, White, Murch, Makalani |
16:510:575,576Seminar in American Diplomatic History (3,3) Foglesong |
16:510:577Seminar in American Economic History (3) |
16:510:579Seminar in the Intellectual History of the United States (3) Lears |
16:510:581Seminar in American Political History (3) Chambers, W. Gillette |
16:510:583Seminar in American Social History (3) Jenkins, Reed |
16:510:585Seminar in American Urban History (3) |
Courses in European History |
16:510:591Ancient History: Topics and Problems (3) Colloquium structured around important primary and secondary readings in Greek and/or Roman history. Cargill, Reinert |
16:510:593Problems and Directed Readings in Medieval History (3) Introduction to the major problems and readings in the field of medieval history. Designed to prepare students to become competent and informed teachers in their major field. Masschaele, Morrison, Reinert |
16:510:595Colloquium in Medieval History (3) Morrison, Reinert |
16:510:597Problems and Directed Readings in Early Modern European History (3) Introduction to the major problems and readings in the field of early modern European history. Designed to prepare students to become competent and informed teachers in their major field. Davis, Jones, Smith |
16:510:599Problems and Directed Readings in Modern European History (3) Introduction to the major problems and readings in the field of modern European history. Designed to prepare students to become competent and informed teachers in their major field. Davis, Jones, Smith |
16:510:601Colloquium in European History (3) Bell, Bellany, Galili, Jones, Mack, Matsuda |
16:510:602Colloquium in the Holocaust: History, Testimony, Meaning (3) |
16:510:603Colloquium in British History (3) Bellany, Mack, Masschaele |
16:510:605Colloquium in Modern Russian History (3) Introduction to the historical literature and major problems of 19th- and 20th-century Russian history. Designed to complement training in modern European or American history. Galili |
16:510:607Seminar in Ancient History (3) |
16:510:611Seminar: Western Europe in the Middle Ages (3) Masschaele, Morrison, Reinert |
16:510:613Seminar in Renaissance Reformation History (3) |
16:510:615,616Seminar in European History (3,3) Davis, Mack |
16:510:617Seminar in European Intellectual History (3) Kelley, Morrison |
16:510:619Seminar in European Political History (3) |
16:510:621Seminar in European Social History (3) Bell, Gillis, Smith |
16:510:623Seminar in English History (3) |
Courses in African, Asian, and Latin American History |
16:510:625Colloquium in African History (3) Study of development prior to colonialism. Commercial systems and religious movements analyzed in the context of culture and social organization. Background for studying carryover of culture to the Americas; recent African history. Ca. Brown, Ch. Brown, Howard |
16:510:627Problems and Directed Readings in East Asian History (3) Basic introduction to the field of East Asian history. Roden |
16:510:629Colloquium in Chinese History (3) Introduction to major problems and readings in the field. Designed to prepare students to become competent and informed teachers of Chinese history. |
16:510:631Colloquium in Latin American History (3) Bennett, Triner-Besosa, Wasserman |
16:510:633Seminar in African History (3) |
16:510:635Seminar in Chinese History (3) Research training in Chinese history. Topic of seminar varies depending on the instructor. |
16:510:637,638Seminar in Latin American History (3,3) Triner-Besosa, Wasserman |
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16:510:677Advanced Topics in History (3) |
16:510:678Advanced Topics in History (3) |
16:510:679Advanced Topics in History (3) |
16:510:680Minor Field Preparation (3) Supervised preparation and study for the minor field examination. Staff |
16:510:681Major Field Preparation (3) Supervised preparation and study for the major field examination. Staff |
16:510:682Dissertation Proposal Preparation (3) Supervised preparation of the dissertation proposal. Staff |
16:510:701,702Research in History (BA,BA) Designed to facilitate research work toward the doctoral dissertation. Open only to advanced students. |
