First-Year Courses in History (Division 390)
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History 110. Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation Europe.
Section 001.
Instructor(s): Alan Stahl
Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS).
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term).
Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.
The first half of the European history survey course covers a sweeping period
of over a millennium. The course is designed to expose students to general
outlines and chronology of European history and to encourage critical, skeptical
analytical thinking. To anchor our flying coverage of this long and varied time,
we will focus on developments in culture (art, architecture, literature), social
organization (family, community, gender relations), and in political organization
and theory. Readings will include a textbook, primary sources, challenging
interpretive essays. Lecture time will be punctuated by small-group discussions,
and active participation is strongly encouraged. Slides will frequently accompany
lectures.
History 121/Asian Studies 121. East Asia: Early Transformations.
Section 001.
Instructor(s): P. Brown
Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU).
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term).
Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.
This is an introduction to the civilizations of China, Japan, Korea, and Inner Asia.
It aims to provide an overview of changing traditions from ancient to early modern
times (ca. 1660 AD) by outlining broad trends which not only transformed each
society, economy, and culture but also led to the development of this region into
distinctly different modern nations. The development of state Confucianism, the
spread of Buddhism, the functions of the scholar and the warrior, the impact of
the military empires of Inner Asia, and the superiority of pre-modern Asian science
and technology are some of the topics we will cover. In addition to the required
textbooks, we will read contemporary accounts and view slides and films to acquire
intimate appreciation of these cultures. Course requirements include successful
completion of: quizzes given in sections; four major tests given in class; one
report/project (5 pp. plus bibliography and notes).
History 144(249)/Korean 150/Asian Studies 154. Introduction to Korean Civilization.
Section 001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU).
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term).
Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.
See Korean 150.001.
History 151/Asian Studies 111. Indian Civilization.
Section 001.
Instructor(s): Sumathi Ramaswamy (sumathi@umich.edu)
Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU).
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term).
Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.
This course is an introduction to the civilization of South Asia, the region
of the world that is today constituted by the modern nation-states of India,
Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The course begins with an analysis
of the manner in which this "civilization" was first "discovered" by the
modern West. We will then go on to consider the political history of the
sub-continent from its earliest foundations in the Indus rule in the 13th
c. C.E. Against this background, we will study the following themes: kingship
and polity; social and religious identities; commercial relations with a wider
world; and gender and sexuality. We will close with a review of India's
encounter with modern Europe, the establishment of colonial rule in the
subcontinent, and the formation of the nation-states of today.
History 160. United States to 1865.
U.S. History
Section 001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS).
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term).
Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.
This lecture/discussion course will examine central issues and events in the history of the territories
that became the United States, and the peoples who lived there, from the late 16th to the middle of
the 19th centuries. Among the topics that will be considered are the territorial expansions of
Europeans into the Americas; the creation of Anglo-American colonies; the social, political, and
cultural orders of British North America; the creation of an independent American republic in the
Revolution; and the destruction of that first republic in the War Between the States. The required
readings will include both primary and secondary sources, and will be examined in weekly discussion
sections. There will be both a midterm and a final examination, and active class participation will be
expected in the sections.
History 161. United States, 1865 to the Present.
U.S. History
Section 001.
Instructor(s): David Fitzpatrick (fitzd@umich.edu)
Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS).
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term).
Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.
This is the second half of the basic, introductory survey of American history.
It addresses the development of the American nation from the end of the Civil
War to the present day. The focal point of the course is the changing nature
of the concept of freedom during this period. In this context the course
will examine the evolution of the United States from an agrarian nation with
little concern for foreign affairs to the world's preeminent power with self-defined global interests. This examination necessarily will focus on the lives
of individual citizens, the transformation of the labor force and the workplace,
and the role played by race, ethnicity, class, and gender in determining one's
place within the greater society. In so doing the course will investigate the
era's major reform movements as well as the reasons for and reaction to the
nation's increased involvement in international affairs.
History 171/German 171. Coming to Terms with Germany.
Section 001 – Germany and Europe in the 1990s.
Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU).
Credits: (4).
Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.
See German 171.001.
History 197. First-Year Seminar.
Section 001 – Epidemics in American History. (Honors).
Instructor(s): Markel
Prerequisites & Distribution: Only first-year students, including those with sophomore standing, may pre-register for First-Year Seminars. All others need permission of instructor. (3). (HU).
First-Year Seminar,
Credits: (3).
Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.
We will study the social, medical, and cultural history of several major epidemics in
American history from cholera to AIDS. Each week is an in-depth discussion of
readings of historical studies and novels and plays about contagion. Weekly journal
writing assignments, a term paper based on original research, and class participation
constitute the final grade. All who take this course must be prepared to learn,
read, think, and write a lot.
History 197. First-Year Seminar.
Section 002 – Africa: the Twentieth Century.
Instructor(s): Cohen
Prerequisites & Distribution: Only first-year students, including those with sophomore standing, may pre-register for First-Year Seminars. All others need permission of instructor. (3). (HU).
First-Year Seminar,
Credits: (3).
Course Homepage: https://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2000/fall/lsa/history/197/002.nsf
This first-year seminar, open to students interested in Africa and its
twentieth-century past, is organized around the close reading and discussion of a series
of novels by writers based on the African continent. The novels are extraordinary
pieces of literature; they provide windows through which to view significant
sections of life, community, culture, society, economy, and politics on the
continent. And they offer the reader important and unique "moments" of
interpretation and theorization of change on the continent across one of the
most tumultuous centuries in human experience. While in part directed toward
reading audiences outside the African continent, the novels provide an array,
and diversity, of "insider" views and evaluations of experience: growing up,
changes in the land, political resistance, shifting economies, violence,
corruption, crises of identity, the impact of new and powerful forces on local
communities, and the want of improvement and reform. The readings provide
opportunities to think and rethink extant concepts through which a, or the,
knowledge of Africa and of its past is, has been, and may yet be, organized.
Grades will be based on a combination of:
- discussion/participation in class;
- the satisfactory completion (with an expectation of increasing facility)
of three 2-3 pages essays on reading or readings, the topics of which
are to be set by the instructor (and given out early in the term);
- a 3 page proposal for a longer treatment of a theme drawn out of
several of the novels; and
- a final 8-page essay based on the proposal, this final essay due at
the close of the last meeting of the academic term.
The reading for each week should be completed before the seminar in which
the novel is discussed is to meet. Essays should be handed in on the dates
indicated, at the beginning of the seminar meeting.
Each week, the instructor will provide a brief background "lecture" as
introduction to the next week's reading.
Members of the seminar should make appointments with the instructor to review
"the proposal" for a final essay.
Members of the seminar should look around the library for the several atlases
and helpful research tools relating to Africa and to these every week or two
to get some background, context, and pictures, which should support the readings
each week.
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