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  Graduate School-New Brunswick 2008-2010 Programs, Faculty, and Courses History 510 Graduate Courses  

Graduate Courses


Courses in Historiography, Theory, and Practice

16:510:500, 502 The 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 nonacademic spheres. First-year graduate students only.
16:510:501 Colloquium: History of Historical Writing (3) Exploration of the evolution of historical writing in varying cultural and chronological contexts, excluding contemporary historiographic theory and practice. Morrison, Reinert
16:510:503 Contemporary Historiography--Theory and Practice (3) Lears, Livingston, Yans-McLaughlin
16:510:505 Statistical 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
16:510:507 Historical Editing (3) Jenkins
16:510:509 Teaching of History (3) Adas, Bell, Howard, Reinert

Courses with Transnational, Comparative, or Interdisciplinary Themes

16:510:511 Colloquium in Comparative History (3)   Adas, Bennett, Howard, Zerubavel
16:510:513 Colloquium in Cultural History (3) Fabian, Lears, Matsuda, Satter
16:510:515 Colloquium in United States Foreign Relations (3) Carruthers, Foglesong
16:510:517 Colloquium in Economic History (3) Survey of the principal problems and methodologies in economic history. James Livingston, Triner-Besosa
16:510:519 Colloquium 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. James Livingston, Scott
16:510:521 Colloquium in Labor History (3) Cobble, James Livingston
16:510:523 Colloquium 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
16:510:525 Colloquium in Political History (3)  
16:510:527 Topics 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
16:510:529 Topics in the History of Sexuality (3) Problems and historiography in the history of sexuality in selected historical and cultural contexts. Koven, Julie Livingston, Wailoo
16:510:531 Colloquium in Social History (3) Koven, Reed
16:510:532 Colloquium in Atlantic History and the African Diaspora (3) Bay, Bennett, Carolyn Brown, Christopher Brown, Butler, Hewitt, Howard, White
16:510:533 Topics in Social History (3) Koven, Reed
16:510:534 Colloquium in Environmental History (3) Studies how environments and cultures have interacted throughout human history. Adas, Israel, Maher, Schrepfer 
16:510:535 Colloquium in the History of Technology (3) Explores how culture has shaped technology as well as the social impacts of technology. Adas, Geselowitz, Israel, Scranton, Yans-McLaughlin
16:510:536 Colloquium 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. Julie Livingston, Marsh, Pemberton, Reed, Wailoo  
16:510:537 Colloquium 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, and political and social reform. Isenberg
16:510:539 Colloquium in Women's and Gender History (3) Women's and gender history across national/cultural contexts and time periods. Chatterjee, Cobble, Davis, Hewitt, Jones, Kaplan, Lebsock, Lewis, 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. Bennett, Christopher Brown, Howard, Smith
16:510:543 Seminar in Cultural History (3) Fabian, Greenberg, Lears, Matsuda
16:510:545 Seminar in Economic History (3)
16:510:546 Seminar I in the History of Technology, Environment, and Health (3) Theoretical perspectives, drawn chiefly from the social sciences, emphasizing their role in initiating historical research projects. Israel, Reed, Schrepfer, Scranton
16:510:547 Seminar II in the History of Technology, Environment, and Health (3) Directed research related to the global history of technology, environment, and health. Israel, Reed, Schrepfer, Scranton, Wailoo
16:510:549,550 Seminar in the History of Women (3,3) Davis, Gordon, Hewitt, Jones, Kaplan, Lebsock, Lewis, Mack, 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, Christopher Brown, Howard, Roden

Courses in American History

16:510:553 Problems and Directed Readings in African-American History (3) Survey of African-American history and historiography. Bay, Makalani, Murch, White
16:510:555 Problems 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; and 18th-century revolutions and nation building. Designed to help students prepare for qualifying exams and to teach the U.S. surveys. Christopher Brown, Clemens, Hewitt, Lewis, Townsend
16:510:557 Problems 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. Bay, Clemens, Hewitt, Lears, Lewis, Julie Livingston, Satter, White
16:510:559 Problems 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, Lewis, Livingston, Yans-McLaughlin
16:510:560 Problems and Directed Readings in Women's and Gender History (3) Chatterjee, Hewitt, Jones, Lebsock, Mack, Smith, Yans-McLaughlin
16:510:561 Colloquium in American History (3) Chambers, Fabian, Greenberg, Lears, Lewis, James Livingston, Schrepfer
16:510:563 Colloquium in African-American History (3) Bay, Makalani, Murch, White
16:510:565 Colloquium in American Legal History (3) Focuses on the interplay between law and social change in American legal history. Clemens
16:510:567 Seminar in American Colonial History (3) Clemens, Lewis
16:510:569 Seminar in America in the Civil War (3)
16:510:571 Seminar in Recent American History (3) Isenberg, Markowitz, Yans-McLaughlin
16:510:573 Seminar in African-American and American History (3) Bay, White
16:510:575,576 Seminar in American Diplomatic History (3,3) Foglesong
16:510:577 Seminar in American Economic History (3)
16:510:579 Seminar in the Intellectual History of the United States (3) Lears
16:510:581 Seminar in American Political History (3) Chambers
16:510:583 Seminar in American Social History (3) Reed
16:510:585 Seminar in American Urban History (3)   Isenberg

Courses in European History

16:510:591 Ancient History: Topics and Problems (3) Colloquium structured around important primary and secondary readings in Greek and/or Roman history. Reinert
16:510:593 Problems 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
16:510:595 Colloquium in Medieval History (3) Kelly, Masschaele, Morrison, Reinert
16:510:597 Problems 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. Bellany, Jones, Mulsow
16:510:599 Problems 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, Hanebrink, Hellbeck, Jones, Smith
16:510:601 Colloquium in European History (3) Bell, Bellany, Christopher Brown, Davis, Galili, Jones, Mack, Matsuda, Mulsow, Sinkoff, Smith
16:510:602 Colloquium in the Holocaust: History, Testimony, Meaning (3)
16:510:603 Colloquium in British History (3) Bellany, Koven, Mack, Masschaele
16:510:605 Colloquium 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
16:510:607 Seminar in Ancient History (3)
16:510:611 Seminar: Western Europe in the Middle Ages (3) Masschaele, Morrison, Reinert
16:510:613 Seminar in Renaissance and Reformation History (3)
16:510:615,616 Seminar in European History (3,3)   Davis, Mack, Matsuda
16:510:617 Seminar in European Intellectual History (3) Morrison
16:510:619 Seminar in European Political History (3)
16:510:621 Seminar in European Social History (3) Bell, Smith
16:510:623 Seminar in English History (3)

Courses in African, Asian, and Latin American History

16:510:625 Colloquium 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. Carolyn Brown, Cooper, Howard, Julie Livingston
16:510:627 Problems and Directed Readings in East Asian History (3) Basic introduction to the field of East Asian history. Roden
16:510:629 Colloquium 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.
16:510:631 Colloquium in Latin American History (3) Bennett, Lauria-Santiago, Townsend, Triner-Besosa, Wasserman
16:510:632 Africa: Problems and Directed Readings (3) Basic introduction to the history of Africa.
Carolyn Brown, Cooper, Howard, Julie Livingston
16:510:633 Seminar in African History (3) Research training in African history. Topic of the seminar varies depending on instructor.
Carolyn Brown, Cooper, Howard, Julie Livingston
16:510:635 Seminar in Chinese History (3) Research training in Chinese history. Topic of seminar varies depending on the instructor.
16:510:637,638 Seminar in Latin American History (3,3) Bennett, Townsend, Triner-Besosa, Wasserman

Individualized Study

16:510:677 Advanced Topics in History (3)
16:510:678 Advanced Topics in History (3)
16:510:679 Advanced Topics in History (3)
16:510:680 Minor Field Preparation (3) Supervised preparation and study for the minor field examination.
16:510:681 Major Field Preparation (3) Supervised preparation and study for the major field examination.
16:510:682 Dissertation Proposal Preparation (3)   Supervised preparation of the dissertation proposal.
16:510:701,702 Research in History (BA,BA) Designed to record research work toward the doctoral dissertation. Open only to students who have advanced to candidacy.
 
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