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First-Year Courses in HistoryThis page was created at 12:14 PM on Thu, Oct 4, 2001. Fall Academic Term, 2001 (September 5 - December 21)Open courses in History Wolverine Access Subject listing for HISTORY Fall Term '01Time Schedule for History. HISTORY 110 / MEMS 110. Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation Europe.European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 001.Instructor(s): Liz HorodowichPrerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: http://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2001/fall/history/110/001.nsf 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 121. East Asia: Early Transformations.
Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle EastSection 001.Instructor(s): Sidney BrownPrerequisites & 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 132 / AAPTIS 100 / ACABS 100 / HJCS 100. Peoples of the Middle East.
Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle EastSection 001.Instructor(s): Kathryn Babayan (babayan@umich.edu) , Gary M Beckman (sidd@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU).
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: https://cgi.www.umich.edu/~nes100/F01/ See Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Turkish, and Islamic Studies 100.001.
HISTORY 144(249) / KOREAN 150 / ASIAN 154. Introduction to Korean Civilization.
Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle EastSection 001.Instructor(s): Eun-Su Cho (eunsucho@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU).
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
HISTORY 151 / ASIAN 111. Indian Civilization.Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle EastSection 001.Instructor(s): Stewart N. Gordon (sngordon@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU).
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: http://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2001/fall/history/151/001.nsf This course is an introduction to the civilization of India, that is, the region of South Asia consisting of the modern countries of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. We will begin with the first Indian civilization, that of the Indus Valley, and go on to the Vedic age, the formation of empires and the classical civilization of India, its social organization, arts, and sciences. We will then examine the encounter of India with Islamic and European civilization, and the formation of the independent nation-states of today. Course requirements include short papers, midterm, and final exam.
HISTORY 152 / ASIAN 112. Southeast Asian Civilization.
Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle EastSection 001.Instructor(s): Victor B LiebermanPrerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS).
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Southeast Asia is one of the world's most culturally diverse regions, home to Buddhist, Muslim, Confucian, and Christian civilizations. It boasts ancient monuments of surpassing grandeur and symbolic complexity. It was the scene of the bloodiest conflict since 1945, the Vietnam War. Until recently it had the world's fastest growing regional economy, and it remains an area of great importance to Japan as well as the United States. This course offers an introduction (and thus assumes no prior knowledge) to Southeast Asian history from the earliest civilizations, through the colonial conquest, the indigenous political reaction – of which Vietnamese Communism and the Vietnam Wars were one expression – and the contemporary economic scene. The course seeks to define Southeast Asia's uniqueness as well as its evolving ties to the rest of the world. Midterm, final, and optional paper. Two lectures, one discussion section per week.
HISTORY 160. United States to 1865.U.S. HistorySection 001.Instructor(s): Susan M JusterPrerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. A survey of early American history from the period of initial colonization through the Civil War. The course will be organized around the interactions of the three dominant cultures which came together in early America: Native American, European, and African. We will explore the internal dynamics of each culture (family life, religious beliefs, political system, labor arrangements, gender roles) and how the clash of cultures shaped the experience of Americans in the colonial and national periods. Specific topics will include the problems of forming communities in an alien environment, the transition to slave labor and the origins of an African-American society, the American Revolution and the creation of the republic, the emergence of sectionalism, and the impact of early industrialism. Students will attend two lectures each week, and read a series of monographs and primary documents. A short paper and a final exam are required.
HISTORY 161. United States, 1865 to the Present.U.S. HistorySection 001.Instructor(s): Terrence J McDonaldPrerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS).
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Can a market economy support a moral community? Can a society divided along the lines of class, ethnicity, race and gender develop a unifying national citizenship and ideology? Can a nation with abundant resources distribute them fairly at home and deploy them humanely abroad? Can American politics be democratic, pluralistic, inclusive efficient, and meaningful? These are the themes that will follow through this survey of American social, cultural, and political history. Students will attend two lectures and two section meetings each week, take midterm and final examinations, and write an account of how their lives and those of their families have encountered modern American history. Readings will include a textbook, a course pack of American autobiographical writings, and about half a dozen other paperbacks.
HISTORY 195. The Writing of History.Instructor(s):Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (Introductory Composition). This course may not be included in a history concentration. Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. “The Writing of History” sections offer students the opportunity to learn writing through the study of historical texts, debates, and events. Each section will study a different era, region, and topic in the past, for the common purpose of learning how history is written and how to write about it. Students will read the work of modern historians as well as documents and other source materials from the past, such as historical novels, letters, diaries, or memoirs. In each case the goal will be to learn how to construct effective arguments, and how to write college-level analytic papers. History 195 satisfies the first-year writing requirement. Each section will enroll a maximum of eighteen students.
HISTORY 195. The Writing of History.Section 001 – U.S. Cities in the Twentieth CenturyInstructor(s): Karen Miller (enzyme@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (Introductory Composition). This course may not be included in a history concentration. Credits: (4). Course Homepage: http://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2001/fall/history/195/001.nsf This seminar will consider the evolution of cities and of metropolitan areas in the United States over the course of the twentieth century. It will examine the political, cultural and demographic shifts that have shaped American cities and will explore how popular myths about cities have helped shape urban politics and culture. Students will analyze the causes and consequences of urbanization, exploring the roles of residents, migrants, planners, activists, industrialists, government officials (both local and national), and other actors in building cities and in producing meanings about them. They will also discuss how cities have been represented in cultural works and how the idea of "the city" in America has changed over time. Instead of assuming that cities are knowable areas with clear geographic boundaries, we will explore how cities take on meaning through a multiplicity of different "texts." These texts will include maps, novels, movies, oral testimony, fine art, newspaper accounts, and archived documents as well as historical writing. Over the course of the term, students will read and critique each other's work.
HISTORY 195. The Writing of History.Section 002 – The Body Beautiful: Beauty and American Culture in the 19th & 20th CenturiesInstructor(s): Alyssa PicardPrerequisites & Distribution: (4). (Introductory Composition). This course may not be included in a history concentration. Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. In this course, you will examine the history of the concept of beauty, and the history of the male and female beauty norms of the 19th and 20th century United States, with an eye towards understanding both the historical construction of beauty and the social construction of today's ideals about personal appearance. We will be trying to discern where conceptions of beauty have come from, how they have changed over time, and who has participated in the creation and alteration of ideas about personal appearance. We will also be exploring the history of historians' interest in personal beauty, seeking to discern what the academic study of beauty has to offer to our understanding of American culture and American history. The major purpose of the course is to prepare you for the academic study of history: to initiate you into the academic languages of historians, to cultivate in you the habits of reading and writing essential to the study of history (and to many other disciplines), and, specifically, to prepare you to independently plan and write papers of increasing length and scope, culminating in a seven- to ten-page research paper based on primary sources. Class activities will include weekly journal writings, biweekly writing workshops, an extensive orientation to the University of Michigan library system, and trips to beauty pageants or bodybuilding contests as we are able to locate them.
HISTORY 195. The Writing of History.Section 003 – Rebels, Reformers, & Reactionaries: 19th-Century American Social MovementsInstructor(s): Barbara BerglundPrerequisites & Distribution: (4). (Introductory Composition). This course may not be included in a history concentration. Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. The same issues that moved nineteenth-century Americans to collective acts of rebellion, reform, and reaction – racial and gender inequality, drugs, labor relations, immigration, and indigenous rights – continue to play a critical role in present-day America. This course explores six nineteenth-century American social movements – abolitionists' fight to end slavery, women's struggles for economic and political rights, temperance advocates' efforts to promote moral living by restricting alcohol consumption, the Knights of Labor's attempts to secure better conditions for workers, the anti-Chinese movement's opposition to Chinese immigration, and Native American's search for community in the midst of dislocation through the Ghost Dance. It examines how – in each of these movements – different groups of people organized in varying ways to improve their lives and their society. It also investigates the power relations, inequalities, hopes, and fears that catalyzed them. It seeks to inform the present and the future by learning from the past.
HISTORY 195. The Writing of History.Section 004 – Women and Fascism: Nazi Germany and Fascist ItalyInstructor(s): Julie StubbsPrerequisites & Distribution: (4). (Introductory Composition). This course may not be included in a history concentration. Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Fascism often brings to mind masculine images – crisp uniforms, goose-stepping soldiers, military aggression, and in the case of Nazi Germany, racial genocide. This class, in contrast, explores women and fascism, focusing on Germany and Italy. Nazism and Italian Fascism embraced biologically determined roles for women, relegating them to the home, where they were encouraged to pursue motherhood as a duty to State and nation. Both regimes have been characterized as anti-feminist and misogynistic. Yet, many German and Italian women, as beneficiaries of social policies and members of State-sponsored mass organizations for women, fondly recall life in Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy. Others remember brutality and repression. In this course students will examine women as historical actors, who actively participated in, benefited from, or resisted fascist policies. We will investigate women's varied experiences of life under a fascist regime, paying special attention to differences among groups of women-bourgeois, working class, urban, rural, "Aryan," Jewish, Catholic, Protestant. We will study similarities in Nazi and Italian Fascist gender ideology, pronatalist initiatives and other social policies directed at women. We also will analyze differences between the two regimes, namely the role of anti-Semitism and racial policies in Nazi Germany, and how these affected women. In addition, the course addresses questions of historiography; the arguments and interpretations put forth by historians. Students will have the opportunity to analyze the various types of sources (evidence) historians use to write history, including primary documents and first person accounts, such as oral histories and memoirs.
HISTORY 195. The Writing of History.Section 006 – Encounter, Crime, and Revolution: The People and the Press in Early AmericaInstructor(s): Ellen Hartigan-O'ConnorPrerequisites & Distribution: (4). (Introductory Composition). This course may not be included in a history concentration. Credits: (4). Course Homepage: http://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2001/fall/history/195/006.nsf The early printing presses of Europe and North America produced tracts, newspapers, pamphlets, and scandal sheets that played active roles in shaping and reflecting the social atmosphere and political thought of their time. This course explores the relationship between these printed documents and society in North America prior to the Civil War in three areas: European-Indian encounters, Revolutionary writings, and crime literature. Reading the early accounts of North America written by Europeans, we will explore the conditions under which printed accounts were written and circulated, the importance of point of view and tone, and the relationship between writers and the represented. We will study the American Revolution through its political writings to understand the interaction of political words and actions, the concept of a "free press," and how ideas about the press have changed over time. Finally, we will turn to true crime literature – the sermons and sensationalistic tales of murder that reveal how the buying public influenced print culture and how technological changes in printing and marketing influenced its use and meanings. Through short weekly papers and a longer, revised paper students will learn to evaluate evidence, make convincing arguments, and assist their peers in revising their writing.
HISTORY 196. First-Year Seminar.Section 001 – Politics of Race Since WWII. Meets with American Culture 102.001.Instructor(s): Matthew J Countryman (mcountry@umich.edu)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). (SS).
Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
HISTORY 196. First-Year Seminar.Section 003 – 1945: Japan's Defeat and RenewalInstructor(s): Sidney BrownPrerequisites & Distribution: Only first-year students, including those with sophomore standing, may pre-register for First-Year Seminars. All others need permission of instructor. (3). (SS). First-Year Seminar, Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. The course will focus on Japan's defeat in the Pacific War (1941-1945)
and its renewal under the American Occupation (1945-1952).
Topics considered in weekly sessions will
include: social change in wartime, Hiroshima and its legacy, the
decision to surrender, emperor system and its modification, the peace
constitution of 1947, land reform, a new deal for labor, new rights for
women, zaibatsu dissolution and beginnings of high-speed growth, cultural
change: the golden age of jazz, and the reverse course. The main reading will be John T. Dower, Embracing Defeat (1999), a Pulitzer prize-winning book.
Four short papers of analysis of particular problems will be assigned. One written essay examination. Student oral reports.
HISTORY 196. First-Year Seminar.Section 005 – Epidemics in American History. (Honors).Instructor(s): Howard MarkelPrerequisites & Distribution: Only first-year students, including those with sophomore standing, may pre-register for First-Year Seminars. All others need permission of instructor. (3). (SS). 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. Required readings are as follows.
HISTORY 197. First-Year Seminar.Section 001 – Let the Shadow Warrior Speak.Instructor(s): Hitomi Tonomura (tomitono@umich.edu)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. Rescued at an execution ground, the deceased overlord's look-alike was
fitted into the role of "kagemusha" (Shadow Warrior). Now the pillar of
the Takeda house and guardian of its strength and honor, the former thief
viewed the world from new heights. We will see the film, KAGEMUSHA, and
explore the historical time and place in which this shadow warrior found
himself. The course investigates the social and political meanings of the
"country-at-war (sengoku)," Japan's age of turmoil (16th C) which
continues to stimulate the creative imagination of film directors,
novelists, and tour organizers. The course also examines the evolution of
the samurai class over a millennium before and after our Shadow Warrior's
time. Aspects to be considered include technology and social meanings of
wars and battles, economic development and classes, education and cultural
accomplishments, gender relations, and the movement toward pacification.
Students are evaluated on the basis of: class attendance and
participation, occasional quizzes, and five three-page papers.
HISTORY 197. First-Year Seminar.Section 002 – Ordering Knowledge: Human SciencesInstructor(s): Tomoko MasuzawaPrerequisites & 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. The nineteenth century saw the emergence of a variety of new fields of knowledge. Philosophy, archaeology, anthropology, and comparative religion were among such new fields, and part of what has come to be known collectively as "human sciences." Meanwhile, "history" also became an academic discipline; it was no longer an incidental gathering of anecdotal knowledge about the past, but instead, a rigorous and methodic form of research purporting to establish certain facts about the past. It was also during this period that the university became "modern," as it became the quintessential abode and superlative organ of science, research, and scholarship. In this seminar we will study the historical processes that shaped these and other modern institutions of knowledge, in part in order to reflect on the nature and the purposes of the university education today.
HISTORY 200. Greece to 201 B.C.
European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 001.Instructor(s): Geoffrey SchmalzPrerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU). Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Homer, Aristotle and Socrates, Odysseus, Pericles and Alexander the Great, Medea, Cassandra and Atigone, Athens, Sparta and Troy...names and places that pop up in many different contexts. Wouldn't it be great to know who and what they really were and why these names and places still carry meaning today? This survey course introduces participants to ancient Greece from the Mycenaean age to the end of the Hellenistic period. It covers ancient works of literature as well as inscriptions, papyri, coins, and archaeological evidence. Lectures and the section discussions focus on the development of Greek society, the role of the individual in Greek history, and the dynamics of historical change. Throughout the term, corresponding and contrasting issues relevant to our own society and history will be addressed. There will be two exams. Each will include essay questions and also test knowledge of historical figures, places and events (2 x 30% of the grade). 20% of the grade will be based on contributions to discussions in sections, the remaining 20% on assignments and quizzes in sections. History 200 is the "prequel" to History 201 (The Roman Empire and Its Legacy). Textbook: R. Morkot, The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece (1996). NO PREREQUISITES. EVERYBODY WELCOME.
HISTORY 260 / AMCULT 260. Religion in America.
U.S. HistorySection 001.Instructor(s): Douglas CurlewPrerequisites & Distribution: Hist. 160 and 161 are recommended but not required. (3). (HU). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. An introduction to the study of American religion from colonial times to the present. The emphasis will be on religion as a cultural system and as a social and political institution, rather than as a set of formal beliefs. We will explore the rise of revivalism as a major cultural force in colonial America, the place of women in the major religious traditions, the synthesis of African and Christian belief systems in the slave community, the role of religion in social reform movements, the rise of fundamentalism as a political force in the 20th century, and the wide diversity of sectarian beliefs in all eras of American history. Students will be expected to read both primary documents and historical studies, participate in class discussions, and write two papers.
HISTORY 278 / AAPTIS 269. Introduction to Turkish Civilizations.
Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle EastSection 001.Instructor(s): Gottfried J HagenPrerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU). Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. See Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Turkish, and Islamic Studies 269.001.
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