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Note: You must establish a session for Fall Academic Term 2001 on wolverineaccess.umich.edu in order to use the link "Check Times, Location, and Availability". Once your session is established, the links will function. Courses in HistoryThis page was created at 6:56 PM on Wed, Oct 10, 2001. Fall Academic Term, 2001 (September 5 – December 21)Open courses in History Wolverine Access Subject listing for HISTORY Fall Term '01 Time Schedule for History. What's New This Week in 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 210 / MEMS 210. Early Middle Ages, 300-1100.European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 001.Instructor(s): Paolo Squatriti (pasqua@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS).
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. An introduction to the transformation of the Roman Empire into Byzantine, Islamic, and west European successor states between A.D. 300 and 1000. The course focuses on the social, cultural, and economic developments in the barbarian kingdoms of Europe. Lectures are integrated with weekly discussion of early medieval texts; two short papers and two tests are the basis of evaluation of performance.
HISTORY 241. War in the Twentieth Century Middle East.Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle EastSection 001.Instructor(s): Juan R Cole (jrcole@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). Credits: (4). Course Homepage: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jrcole/syls.htm Covers the history of warfare since the 18th century from Algeria to Afghanistan. Examines imperial warfare and statemaking through Muhammad Ali Pasha (d. 1848), then the colonial wars of France, Great Britain, and Russia; the two world wars; and the subsequent Arab-Israeli, Gulf, and Afghanistan conflicts.
HISTORY 246(446) / CAAS 246. Africa to 1850.Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle EastSection 001 – Africa to 1850Instructor(s): Mamadou Diouf (mdiouf@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (SS). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course explores the pre-colonial African past, from the early prehistory of the human to the eve of Europe's second great wave of empire when Africans across most of the continent became the subjects of European colonies. The second European empires (from roughly the 1870s through the 1960s) have had profound influence on Africa, yet important global forces were affecting Africa long before the mid-nineteenth century. Moreover, the shapes that Africa would take under the influence of European empire would be strongly conditioned by the course of change on the continent before 1850 and by the nature of society and culture on the continent stretching back for more than a millennium. The major objective of this course is to establish a deeper understanding of the forces, institutions, and processes that underlay the experiences of Africans and the African continent before 1850. The post-1850 history of Africa will be taken up by Professor Diouf during the second term, in History 247. Over the past five decades, the reconstruction of the African past – from archaeological evidence, from oral testimonies, and from historical linguistics and from other methods and materials – has been one of the most remarkable departures in the historical sciences, taking the professional craft of history beyond its signature: the written document. Of course, the peoples of Africa long enjoyed a rich knowledge of their past and a deep engagement with history, well before the emergence of the professional practice of history on the continent. And a critical factor in the shaping of Africa's futures has been the production and control of histories for and about the continent. Albeit the breakthroughs in the reconstruction of Africa's past, and albeit the importance of historical knowledge to Africans, Africa is substantially "known" today – by those outside Africa, by the international press, by the aid and development and the human rights communities – through a shallow and relatively presentist understanding, partially based on direct observation, partially based on persistent and pervading myths and fantasies about Africa, myths that have their own significant histories. The course will encourage a more complex understanding of Africa and a sense of African history as a work-in-progress. The course will explore:
Among the main questions, the recurrent questions:
The course will be organized around lectures, readings, discussions, the viewing of several films from Africa. Course requirements:
HISTORY 250. China from the Oracle Bones to the Opium War.Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle EastSection 001.Instructor(s): Chun-Shu ChangPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (HU). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course consists of a survey of early Chinese history, with special emphasis on the origins and development of the political, social, and economic institutions and their intellectual foundations. Special features include class participation in performing a series of short dramas recreating critical issues and moments in Chinese history, slides especially prepared for the lectures, new views on race and gender in the making of China, intellectual and scientific revolutions in the seventeenth century, and literature and society in premodern China.
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 263. Discovering America: Atlantic History I, 1492-1607.Other History CoursesSection 001.Instructor(s): David J Hancock (hancockd@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. An introduction to the formation of the early Atlantic world from the voyages of Christopher Columbus to the expeditions of Walter Raleigh. This course compares English French, Spanish, Portuguese and Native American experiences. Special attention is given to the letters and diaries of Columbus, Cortes, Cartier, Gilbert, Raleigh, and Champlain, as well as a selection of Indian texts. The course highlights integrative themes common to European, African and Indian encounters with and in the Americas, encounters that knit together a larger, newer community: the exploring, mixing, and settling of peoples and races; the emergence of viable trans-Atlantic commercial systems; a groping towards a balance of power among European states; and the exchange and advancement of knowledge. No prerequisites.
HISTORY 265. A History of the University of Michigan.U.S. HistorySection 001.Instructor(s): SteneckPrerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU). Credits: (4). Course Homepage: http://www.umich.edu/~hist265/ History 265 presents a broad overview of the history of the University of Michigan from its founding in Detroit in 1817 to the Present The course also explores a wide range of topics of importance in the history of higher education and in the history of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and the United States more generally.
HISTORY 266. Twentieth-Century American Wars as Social and Personal Experience.U.S. HistorySection 001.Instructor(s): Jonathan L Marwil (jmarwil@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU). Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course will examine the American experience of war in this century. Lectures, readings, films, and discussions will focus not only on the military experience itself, but on how America's wars – real and imagined – have shaped the country's economy, politics, and culture. The course will also examine the processes of transmission and memory: how Americans who did not fight learned about those who did, and what all Americans have remembered or have been taught to remember about the wars of this century. Finally, we will consider how the nation's wartime conduct, at home and on the battlefield, has fit into long-standing social patterns and behavior such as our alleged propensity for violence. In brief, we will be looking at the American experience of war as inclusively as a term will allow.
HISTORY 274 / CAAS 230. Survey of Afro-American History I.U.S. HistorySection 001.Instructor(s): Julius S Scott III (jsscott@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: AAS 111. (3). (SS). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
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.
HISTORY 284. Sickness and Health in Society: 1492 to the Present.U.S. HistorySection 001 – (3 credits).Instructor(s): Pernick Martin S. (mpernick@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: First-year students must obtain permission of the instructor. (Lectures: 3 credits; lectures and discussion: 4 credits). (SS). Credits: (Lectures: 3 credits; lectures and discussion: 4 credits; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. From devastating infectious epidemics to the quiet suffering of malnutrition, health problems have both affected and reflected the evolution of modern society. The course will study four different historical periods, exploring such issues as: the effects of individual habits, environmental conditions, and medical innovation on public health; the role of ethics, economics, and politics in medical decision making; the changing health problems of the disadvantaged, including Native Americans, women, Blacks, immigrants, and workers; the changing meaning of concepts like "health," "disease," "cause," and "cure"; the dissemination and impact of medical discoveries; and the changing organization and power of the healing professions. We will focus on American history, although comparisons will be drawn to other societies. The course is a basic introduction, however, first-year students must obtain permission of the professor to enroll. Classes are taught in lecture format, and will include a variety of audio-visual sources. Reading assignments will range from modern histories to poetry and old medical journals. There will be two essay-style examinations, and frequent short quizzes. This is a challenging and demanding course. Those who miss the first meeting without advance permission will be dropped from the course. Required purchases cost $15, but additional required reading assignments, available on reserve or for optional purchase, cost up to $110 additional if bought. Students interested in also registering into a discussion section and receiving 4 credits for this course should see additional comments for History 284 section 002.
HISTORY 284. Sickness and Health in Society: 1492 to the Present.U.S. HistorySection 002 – (4 credits). Lecture, with discussions.Instructor(s): Pernick Martin S. (mpernick@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: First-year students must obtain permission of the instructor. (Lectures: 3 credits; lectures and discussion: 4 credits). (SS). Credits: (Lectures: 3 credits; lectures and discussion: 4 credits; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
HISTORY 285. Science, Technology, and Society: 1940 to the Present.U.S. HistorySection 001.Instructor(s): Nicholas H Steneck (nsteneck@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU). Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: http://www.umich.edu/~hist285/ The enterprise of science changed dramatically after WWII, both intellectually and socially. The consequences of being able to split the atom and, more recently, to engineer biological blueprints have made science literally a life and death activity that touches every human. This course will explore the growth and implications of scientific and technological development from the end of WWII to the present. There will be two lectures and one discussion per week. Students will work in small groups on one problem during the term, e.g., energy, pollution, global warming, health care issues. Each group will hand in a jointly written report at the end of term and present a class report. Three or four books will be assigned reading. Students will be expected to make use of e-mail and conferencing.
HISTORY 286 / RELIGION 286. A History of Eastern Christianity from the 4th to the 18th Century.European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 001.Instructor(s): John V Fine JrPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (HU). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course traces Eastern Christianity from the 4th through the 18th century. A broad survey course aimed at undergraduates of all concentrations, there are no prerequisites; the course focuses on both Church history and theology. It begins with Constantine's conversion and traces the growth of the Church, the rise of monasticism, the creation of the creed (the Councils of Nicea and Chalcedon), and the secession of the Eastern churches (Coptic and Syriac), the role of religious pictures and the iconoclast dispute and relations with the West (Rome) which were frequently strained before the official break in the 11th century. We cover the conversion of the Slavs and the eventual formation of independent Slavic national churches. We treat the fall of the Byzantine and Medieval Slavic states to the Turks and the position of the Orthodox under the Turks. Attention is also given to the Russian Church from the 9th century to the Old Believer schism and Church reforms of Peter the Great. Readings are varied. There is no textbook. A relevant paper of the student's choice, an hour exam, and a final are required.
HISTORY 301. Discovery of the Universe.Section 001.Instructor(s): Rudi P Lindner (rpl@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. How did we get here? What's going on? Where are we going with this? These questions define the physical sciences, and this course examines the history of the ways and means, human, observational, experimental, and theoretical, that astronomers and physicists have used to answer them. The course begins with what has been called the "Scientific Revolution," with Galileo and the Inquisition, but quite rapidly we come to the nineteenth century, and the heart of the course is on the development of our study of the universe, its origin, structure, and future, during the last few generations. Among topics we shall consider are the financing of science, the politics and security implications of modern research, history of computers, the roles of women, the geographical and cultural spread of research, popularization and demonization of science, pseudo-science, and the various contexts of science, in addition to the development of research and thought. So this is a history, and not a science, course, although many of the readings will come from scientists themselves, and our discussions will be centered on the human history rather than on the science itself.
HISTORY 318. Europe in the Era of Total War, 1870-1945.European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 001.Instructor(s): Brian A Porter (baporter@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~baporter/syl31801.html In 1945 Europe lay in ruins. Entire cities had been leveled by the destructive powers of modern warfare, and the cultural, political, and social norms of the pre-war world had been shattered. What made such violence possible, and how did ordinary men and women experience it? History 318 will explore the ideological, political, economic, social, and cultural forces that both caused and were destroyed by the savagery of the early 20th century. We will not only study the origins and consequences of World Wars I and II, but also the ways in which everyday life was transformed during this turbulent era. We will look at Europe from the inside (by studying relations of class, gender, and nationality), and from the outside (by tracing the ideology and practice of imperialism). Grading will be based on a midterm and a final exam, on active participation in a discussion section, and on two take-home essay assignments.
HISTORY 320. Britain, 1901-1945: Culture and Politics.European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 001.Instructor(s): Kali A K Israel (kisrael@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (Excl).
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course will examine British culture and politics from the death of Queen Victoria through the Second World War, with particular attention to the nature and structure of politics and the state; the First World War and the processes through which the war experience of mass participation and trauma were understood; cultural and political debates in the interwar years; the growth of mass media; gender; the empire and colonial subjects; the Great Depression; British politics during the rise of Nazi and fascist governments in Europe; and the experience of the Blitz and World War II. Students will be asked to think critically about the various means by which national and personal stories are constituted, repressed, re-imagined, and deployed in debates about the meaning and uses of the past. Readings and other course materials will include autobiographies, novels, films, and photographs, and class sessions will include extensive discussion. No previous knowledge of British history will be assumed or required.
HISTORY 332 / REES 395 / SLAVIC 395 / POLSCI 395 / SOC 392. Survey of Russia: The Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Successor States.European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 001.Instructor(s): William G RosenbergPrerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). Laboratory fee ($10) required. Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Lab Fee: Laboratory fee ($10) required. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. See Russian and East European Studies (REES) 395.001.
HISTORY 336 / CAAS 336 / WOMENSTD 336. Black Women in America.U.S. HistorySection 001.Instructor(s): Michele MitchellPrerequisites & Distribution: AAS 201 recommended. (3). (SS). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
HISTORY 347(476) / ANTHRCUL 346. Latin America: The Colonial Period.Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle EastSection 001.Instructor(s): David Frye (dfrye@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS).
Credits: (4). Course Homepage: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dfrye/h347.htm This course will examine the colonial period in Latin American history from the initial Spanish and Portuguese contact and conquest to the nineteenth-century wars of independence. It will focus on the process of interaction between Indians and Europeans, tracing the evolution of a range of colonial societies in the New World. Thus we will examine the indigenous background to conquest as well as the nature of the settler community. We will also look at the shifting uses of land and labor,and at the importance of class, race, gender, and ethnicity. The method of instruction is lecture and discussion. Each student will write a short critical review and a final paper of approximately 10 to 12 pages. There will be a midterm and a final. Readings will include works by Inga Clendinnen, Nancy Farris, Karen Spalding and Charles Gibson, as well as primary materials from Aztec and Spanish sources. The text will be Burkholder and Johnson, COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA.
HISTORY 350 / GTBOOKS 350 / AMCULT 360. Debates of the Founding Fathers.U.S. HistorySection 001.Instructor(s): J Mills Thornton III (jmthrntn@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
HISTORY 357(392). Topics in African History.Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle EastSection 001 – South Africa Since 1989. Meets with RC Social Science 360.003.Instructor(s): CohenPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: http://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2001/fall/rcssci/360/003.nsf See RC Social Science 360.003.
HISTORY 361. U.S. Intellectual History, 1750-1940.U.S. HistorySection 001 – Meets with American Culture 301.003.Instructor(s): John S Carson (jscarson@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jscarson/Hist361.html America, one historian has remarked, is a nation of words. In this lecture course we will examine some of the words and concepts that have been central within American culture from the Enlightenment to World War II and how they have been articulated, debated, instantiated, and used at a variety of times and by a variety of people. Our approach, derived from the cultural history of ideas, will examine not just the world of thinking, but how those thoughts get translated into doing and making, and in the process are themselves transformed. Our reading will include such major figures as Thomas Jefferson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William James, and Langston Hughes, as well as a host of less well known writers, scientists, political thinkers, popular commentators and the like. We will focus throughout, however, as much on how the words are used – in producing arguments, laws, social movements, consumer goods, and machines – and on the technologies that make them available, as on the language itself. Required readings include the following:
HISTORY 363. U.S. Foreign Policy and International Politics Since World War II.U.S. HistorySection 001.Instructor(s): ConnellyPrerequisites & Distribution: (4). (Excl). Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. No Description Provided. Check Times, Location, and Availability HISTORY 367 / AMCULT 367. American Indian History.U.S. HistorySection 001.Instructor(s): Liza E Black (lizab@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). (R&E).
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: http://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2001/fall/history/367/001.nsf
HISTORY 368 / AMCULT 342 / WOMENSTD 360. History of the Family in the U.S.U.S. HistorySection 001.Instructor(s): Rebecca MeadPrerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS).
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course aims to help students gain a perspective on the contemporary family by studying the development of this important institution in the American past. Particular emphasis will be placed on changing attitudes toward and experiences of sex roles, sexuality, childrearing, work patterns, and relationships between men, women, and children. We will explore race, ethnicity, and class; cover economic developments as well as shifting conceptions of the role of the state; and ask about the impact of these factors on family life. We will want to examine how much the family has changed over time and try to project, on the basis of historical evidence, whither the family is going.
HISTORY 370 / WOMENSTD 370. Women in American History to 1870.U.S. HistorySection 001.Instructor(s): Carol F Karlsen (ckarlsen@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course is an introduction to the history of American women – as a group, as individuals, and as members of different classes, and racial, regional and ethnic communities. Using work, politics, and sexuality as organizing concepts, it focuses particularly on the significance of gender in determining women's experiences from the early seventeenth century to 1870. Special attention is paid to initial and continuing encounters of Native Americans, Euro-Americans, and African-Americans; to evolving constructions of "womanhood" and their significance for different groups of women; to the meaning of religious movements, wars, economic transformations, and demographic shifts for women's individual and collective efforts to determine the course of their own histories.
HISTORY 372 / WOMENSTD 372. Women in European History, 1750 to the Present.European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 001.Instructor(s): Laura Lee Downs (bombe@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course analyzes women's work and political activity in modern Europe. We will focus primarily on Britain, France and Germany, and will examine such issues as the nature of women's work, how continued industrial development has changed that work, the effect of popular notions like "separate spheres" on the sexual division of labor, forms of women's collective action, and the impact of the welfare state on women's lives. The success of the course rests on active class participation. Students should come to class prepared with questions and comments on each week's reading. In addition, students will be expected to prepare a brief (5-7 pp.) midterm essay and a final, 12-15 page research paper, due at the end of the term.
HISTORY 373 / AMCULT 373. History of the U.S. West.U.S. HistorySection 001.Instructor(s): Maria E Montoya (mmontoya@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU). Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: http://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2001/fall/history/373/001.nsf This is a one term course which examines the History of the American West from before European contact through the Cold War. Because of the long time period, there will be an emphasis on the themes and patterns that have shaped the American West. Topics will include Native American societies, European contact, settlement, and environmental impact. We will pay particular attention to issues surrounding ethnicity, gender, class, and labor. No previous knowledge is required, but a general background in American history will be helpful. There will also be an emphasis on reading and analyzing primary documents.
HISTORY 381 / MEMS 381. History of the Jews from the Muslim Conquests to the Spanish Expulsion.European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 001.Instructor(s): Stefanie B SiegmundPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course will survey major historic developments in medieval Jewish society under both Islam and western Christendom. Broadly, the course will look at the divergence of Judaism and Christianity, the rise of the Babylonian geonim, the social and cultural history of Jews in the Arab Mediterranean world, the emergence of Jewish communities in Medieval Ashkenaz, and the impact on Jewish society of the Crusades, the Reconquista, the emergence of the mendicant orders, and the Black Death. The course will examine the interaction of Jews with the majority culture, political structure, and economy, as well as changing cultural trends within Jewish society. The distinctive religious climate of the medieval period will serve as a unifying theme throughout. We will study primary sources as well as recent historical scholarship, and our focus will include the history of women as well as that of men. Class is conducted as lecture and discussion of texts with an occasional film or slide lecture. Requirements for the course: several short written and oral assignments, tests, and final examination. Prerequisites: None. History 110 and some familiarity with Judaism or Jewish civilization (Religion 201, Judaic Studies 379/HJCS 379, or similar) is recommended background.
HISTORY 383. Modern Jewish History to 1880.European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 001.Instructor(s): Todd M Endelman (endelman@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl).
Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course surveys Jewish history in Europe, America, and the Middle East from the mid-seventeenth century to the 1870s. It begins with the emergence of West European Jews from cultural and social isolation, discusses their political emancipation, and traces their efforts to modernize Jewish ritual and belief. The focus then shifts to Eastern Europe, where the world of tradition persisted much longer. The lectures on Eastern Europe will focus on the religious and social character of Jewish life in Poland and Russia, the development of Hasidism, and the first glimmerings of enlightenment in the mid-nineteenth century. The course will conclude with a look at the Jewish communities of North Africa and the Middle East. There will be an essay-type midterm, a 10-12 page paper, and a comprehensive final.
HISTORY 391. Topics in European History.European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 001 – The Holocaust Through Film.Instructor(s): WeckelPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be elected for credit twice. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. In the face of the difficulties of adequately speaking and writing about the Holocaust, photographs and films are often believed to be more convincing, appealing not only to people's mind but also to their senses. The earliest example of this was an "atrocity film" planned by the western allies already in fall 1944. This film took footage of the liberation of the concentration camps and was shown not only to the public at home, but especially to German prisoners of war and later to the German people in the American occupation zone. Since then the Holocaust has been represented in very different ways in documentary as well as in feature films. Not until 1978 the NBC television series "Holocaust" brought the topic to the conscience of mass audiences in the U.S. and abroad, and at the same time made the extermination of the European Jews a subject of such popular genres as melodrama, family saga and – in the late 90s – even comedy. In this lecture course we will watch several different films, discuss our impressions, analyze significant sequences, learn about their varied and controversial reception in the U.S. and elsewhere (especially in Germany and Israel), and think about the implications and effects of the different strategies of representing the Holocaust.
HISTORY 391. Topics in European History.European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 002 – Modern Italy: 1815-Present.Instructor(s): Dario GaggioPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be elected for credit twice. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course examines the history of the Italian peninsula from 1815 to the present. Modern Italy has been a laboratory for the social and political change of western Europe. Nationalism, fascism, and social democracy all have found in Italy an ideal terrain for their conceptual and historical development. We will focus on the unification process, on the strategies implemented by the post-unification State to forge a national identity, on the politics of fascism, and on the contradictory nature of the Italian democracy in the post-W.W.II decades. A variety of media (historical texts, works of fiction, and films) will provide an introduction to the complex and often dramatic history of the Italian people. Moreover, an interdisciplinary perspective will allow us to go beyond the level of state policies and explore the profound transformation of Italian society and culture over the last two centuries. Teaching method and evaluation: Lectures and discussion. There will be a midterm exam and a final paper (10-12 pages). Tentative reading list: John Davis (ed.), Italy in the Nineteenth Century; Patrick McCarthy, The Crisis of the Italian State; Sibilla Aleramo, A Woman; Carlo Levi, Christ Stopped at Eboli; Italo Calvino, The Path to the Spiders' Nests; Sergio Atzeni, Bakunin's Son; course packet.
HISTORY 392(392). Topics in Asian History.Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle EastSection 001 – Social Protest in Japan. Meets with History 592.001.Instructor(s): Leslie B Pincus (lpincus@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be elected for credit twice. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
HISTORY 392(392). Topics in Asian History.Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle EastSection 002 – Modern South Asian Diasporas.Instructor(s): SturmanPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be elected for credit twice. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course will examine the histories of South Asian communities that have formed outside the Indian subcontinent in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the nineteenth century, we will consider the colonial policies and ideaologies and the political-economic regimes that brought South Asians to places as diverse as the Caribbean, Fiji, Madagascar, South and East Africa and also to Great Britain. In the twentieth century, we will consider the emergence of large communities of South Asians in Great Britain, the United States and Canada, making extensive use of the rich materials available in the form of novels, short stories, and film. Throughout our study of these multiple and changing communities, we will consider questions of nationalism, transnationality, community, identity, politics, and belonging that have shaped the modern experience of diaspora. Required Readings:
HISTORY 393(393). Topics in U.S. History.U.S. HistorySection 001 – U.S. Imperialism 1891-Present:Instructor(s): Penny M Von EschenPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be elected for credit twice. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course considers the rise of the United States as a world power through focusing on the policies and projects of a wide variety of actors from U.S. Presidents and their administrations to missionaries, film-makers and writers. In addition to focusing on pivotal political moments such as the wars of 1898, World War I and II, the Cold War and the U.S. in Vietnam, we will keep an eye on the ongoing political, economic and cultural interventions of U.S. government, corporate, and other private interests in Central America, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Through examining such issues as the export of Disney and prostitution and the U.S. military, we will also examine the ways in which the interlocking idealogies of imperialism, race, and gender animated U.S. expansion and shaped the political culture and consciousness of American society. Finally, we will view U.S./global relations throught the lens of material culture, focusing on the production, use and control of commodities such as aluminum, oil, and uranium. |
