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HISTORY 111. Modern Europe.
Section 001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: HISTORY 110 is recommended as prerequisite. (4). (SS). May not be repeated for credit.
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term).
Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
Had Europeans in 1700 had access to a time-machine they might have felt more comfortable visiting their Roman ancestors than coming to see their descendants today. This course will try to demonstrate why. We will survey the transformations in European society and culture in the last 300 years, examining not only familiar agents of change (war, revolution, technology) but some that are less often discussed (novels, photography, film). We will examine as well how Europeans tried to shape the lives of peoples in other parts of the world and how in turn those peoples returned the favor. Finally, we will consider the very notion of "Europe" and "Europeans," and how they evolved over an era of shifting alligiances and identities.
HISTORY 160. United States to 1865.
U.S. History
Section 001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). May not be repeated for credit.
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term).
Course Homepage: http://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2004/winter/history/160/001.nsf
This course surveys the truly colonial origins and early development of the United States. The troublesome concept of nationalism, rising once again as a major force throughout the world today, lends the course an organizing principle. Beginning with the convergence of various cultures--Native American, European, and African--along the Atlantic seaboard in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, the first half of the course explores the emergence of a culturally diverse nation with a contested political constitution. The second half of the course explores the problem of American nationhood through examinations of slavery, social conflict, immigration, sectional division, and near self-destruction in the Civil War. Throughout, it will examine ordinary and extraordinary lives and events.
Format: The course consists of three separate but interweaving strands: lectures, readings, and discussion. Read the textbook to gain background knowledge for the lectures, the more specialized readings, and the discussions. Much of what you read and hear will be interpretive and subject to challenge. In the discussion sections you should grapple openly with the issues raised in the lectures and the readings.
Grading: You will write a mid-term examination (25%) and a final examination (35%). These will draw on the lectures and the readings. You will also write a paper based on an assigned topic (25%). Your general participation in the discussion sections will account for some 15%.
HISTORY 161. United States, 1865 to the Present.
U.S. History
Section 001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). May not be repeated for credit.
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 196. First-Year Seminar.
Section 001 — The History of Witchcraft in the Early Modern Period.
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). May not be repeated for credit.
First-Year Seminar
Credits: (3).
Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
Attitudes toward witchcraft prove to be extremely revealing as a way to understand early modern society, community structure, gender relations, intellectual and religious attitudes, and legal culture. The phenomenon of witchcraft has produced an enormous array of modern reactions, ranging from historical and anthropological analyses, to satanic and feminist revivals of witchcraft practice, to popular, sensationalized novels and movies.
This course is designed to expose students to the wide variety of mystical, political, literary, historical, and anthropological approaches taken toward the subject of witchcraft. Students will read and interpret trial records, diaries, sermons, and modern popular and scholarly works, from the fifteenth-century Hammer of Witches to The Wizard of Oz . Geographically, material ranges from Salem, Massachusetts, to Russia. Requirements: participation in weekly lecture and discussion sections, oral presentations, several short papers, and a longer research paper.
HISTORY 196. First-Year Seminar.
Section 002 — Epidemics: Deadly Disease in American History.
Instructor(s):
Martin S Pernick
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). May not be repeated for credit.
First-Year Seminar
Credits: (3).
Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
From smallpox to AIDS, dramatic disease outbreaks both
shaped and were shaped by American culture. This course explores
how medicine and culture intersected to influence the causes,
experiences of, and responses to epidemics in America; and it
uses epidemics to illuminate the history of American society from
colonization to the present. Lectures introduce new topics and
summarize discussions. Discussions will explore past perceptions
and compare past and present; we will not discuss the present
apart from the past. Readings (4 to 5 hours weekly) include
modern histories, plus old newspapers, films, and medical
journals. Written assignments are two five-page book review
papers, a short weekly journal, and an individual research
project with parts due throughout the term. They will introduce
you to the medical, graduate, and undergraduate libraries. Readings available only for purchase cost about $30; other
required readings available on reserve or for purchase cost about
$130 more.
Course pack available from Dollar Bill at Michigan Book and Supply.
Readings:
- Crosby, Columbian Exchange (Greenwood)
- Rosenberg, Cholera Years (Chicago)
- De Kruif, Microbe Hunters
- Brandt, No Magic Bullet (Oxford)
- Gould, A Summer Plague (Yale)
- Garrett, The Coming Plague (Penguin)
HISTORY 196. First-Year Seminar.
Section 003 — Criminal Responsibility in Anglo-American History.
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). May not be repeated for credit.
First-Year Seminar
Credits: (3).
Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
This seminar deals with several fundamental issues in Western civilization as they have manifested themselves in the Anglo-American past: the requisites for criminal guilt; the means of determining whether one possesses those requisites (typically, the criminal trial); and the most common justifications for imposition of punishment (retribution, deterrence, and reform). We shall study these matters in relation to two central ideas of freedom: political liberty and human free will. Special attention will be given to: the history of the jury as a "buffer" between the state and the individual or the community; the manner in which challenges to the presumption that humans possess the ability freely to control their behavior have shaped the institutions and ideas of Anglo-American criminal justice. Students will analyze and discuss primary sources and recent historical writings and will write several short papers.
The following required books are available at Shaman Drum.
-The Salem Witch Trials by Peter Hoffer
-Fictions in the Archives by Natalie Davis
-On Crimes and Punishment by Cesare Beccaria
-The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau by Charles Rosenberg
HISTORY 197. First-Year Seminar.
Section 001 — Vienna, Berlin, Paris 1890-1930.
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). May not be repeated for credit.
First-Year Seminar
Credits: (3).
Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
When, where, and how does our age begin? Before Vienna the unconscious
was an object of wonder; before Berlin the cinema was a charming toy;
before Paris music and art made sense. Within the orbits of these great
cities, before, during, and after World War I, our world was created at
the hands of extraordinary men and women.
This seminar explores the
literature, art, music, cinema, — the culture of an age in a flurry of
creation and destruction, using the similarities and differences of the
cities as center. Students will work on projects of their own choosing:
some examples from the past have included the self-portraits of Picasso,
the war in the air, Hollywood as an outpost of Europe, women's work in
wartime, sports photography as a social indicator, — there are many
possibilities.
Required Readings:
- Bertold Brecht, Three Penny Opera
- Albert Einstein, Autiobiography
- Siegmund Freud, Dora
- Otto Griedrich, Before the Deluge
- Frank Whitford, Klimt.
HISTORY 197. First-Year Seminar.
Section 002 — The Christian Experience-Early, Medieval, Modern: A Comparative Introduction to Ethics, Worship, and Community.
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). May not be repeated for credit.
First-Year Seminar
Credits: (3).
Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
The two millennia of Christian experience reveal a great diversity of approaches to ethics, worship, and community. Can we connect these disparate images into a common thread of Christian experience? This class will provide a comparative introduction to this problem by listening to such voices as: 2nd Century Christians executed by the Romans, late antique bishops who exercise great wealth and power, medieval reformers struggling against "tradition," 17th Century Puritans building the "new Jerusalem" while murdering dissenters, and a 20th Century preacher in a Birmingham jail. We will listen to their voice through sermons, letters, and other writings and we will also enter into their visual world by examining the art and architecture that shaped their experience. We will consider their views on: What Christians should do in the face of injustice and social-ills? How are Christians to relate to believers and non-believers? Should Christians oppose the state or stay out of "the world"? How should Christians worship? How did a "Church" look in the different periods? What does "Church" even mean? What, if anything, connects the early, medieval, and modern Christian Experience? Are they even the same religion?
Readings:
-Meeks, Wayne A. (1986). The Moral World of the First Christians. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press. Introduction, Pages 11-17; Chapter 2, "Great Traditions," pp. 40-64
-Constantelos, Demetrios J. (1968). Byzantine Philanthropy and Social Welfare. Chapters 1-3, Pages 3-41.
-Gager, John G. (1975). Kingdom and Community. The Social World of Early Christianity. Chapter 5, "The Success of Christianity," pp. 114-148
-1st Century: Didache
-2nd Century: Ignatios of Antioch Justin Martyr
Irenaeus.
-5th Century: John Chrysostom
-7th Century: Life of John the Almsgiver
Life of John the Almsgiver, http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/john-almsgiver.html
-14th Century: Athanasios, Patriarch of Constantinople
Life in Christ
-16th Century: George Fox????
-19th Century: Charles Grandison Finney
-20th Century: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together
HISTORY 201. Rome.
Section 001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU). May not be repeated for credit.
Credits: (4).
Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
A survey of Roman history from the consolidation of the Roman empire in the second
century B.C. to the rise of its political heirs in the Mediterranean world in the
eighth century A.D. Topics to be discussed include Rome's overseas expansion; the
administration of a large empire; the impact of Christianity; the conversion of
Constantine; heresy and the imposition of orthodoxy; barbarian kingdoms; Justinian's reconquest; the rise of Islam; and the coronation of Charlemagne
as a revived Roman emperor.
Readings will include many ancient texts in translation and some modern scholarship.
Final grade is based on two tests, frequent written exercises, and participation
in discussions. No prerequisites; everyone welcome.
HISTORY 205(122) / ASIAN 205. Modern East Asia.
Section 001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). May not be repeated for credit.
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term).
Course Homepage: http://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2004/winter/history/205/001.nsf
The course offers an introduction to modern East Asia through a survey of Chinese history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Using lectures, readings, visual materials, writing, and discussions, our goal is to understand the dramatic changes that have radically reshaped Chinese society, economy, politics, and culture during this time. This year, we will pay special attention to China's many nineteenth century crises, to the shifting course of revolution and revolutionary politics in the early and mid twentieth century, and to the equally revolutionary transformation of China during the last quarter-century. No prior familiarity with China and the Chinese language is assumed.
Textbooks include:
1.Jonathan D. Spence, The Search for Modern China. (New York: Norton, 1999)
2.Mao, Zedong, Selected works
3.James Lee and Wang Feng, One Quarter of Humanity: Malthusian Mythology and Chinese Realities, 1700-2000. (Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard University Press, 1999)
HISTORY 211 / MEMS 211. Later Middle Ages, 1100-1500.
Section 001.
Instructor(s):
Patrick James Nold
Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). May not be repeated for credit.
Credits: (4).
Course Homepage: http://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2004/winter/history/211/001.nsf
This course will investigate the institutional, economic, and intellectual
development of Europe from the opening of the second millennium through the
fourteenth century. Some important themes will be the nature of kingship and
representative institutions; patterns of urban, economic, and demographic
growth; and movements in religious and intellectual life. Extensive readings
from contemporary documents (chronicles, romances, poetry, sermons, etc.), a midterm, a final examination, and two short papers are required.
HISTORY 218. The Vietnam War, 1945-1975.
Other History Courses
Section 001.
Instructor(s):
David R Smith
Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). May not be repeated for credit.
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term).
Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
This course will explore the origins of colonialism and the rise of the Cold War to
understand the political, economic, and military conflicts that contributed to the
outbreak of war in Vietnam after 1945. This course will not focus exclusively on American involvement in the war, but rather will attempt to portray a broader international perspecitve of this conflict. With several decades of massiveeconomic, political, and military turmoil, it must be recognized that the Vietnam
War brought an overwhelming amount of human tragedy and displacement. Accordingly,
this course will attempt to both understand the policy decisions that led to war in
Vietnam and, importantly, put a human face on the war — both for those from Vietnam
(and surrounding nations) and those from the United States.
Along with informed participation in discussion section, all graded work required in this course will consist of written compositions, including two exams and a short paper.
Required readings for the course may be purchased at Shaman Drum Bookshop, 313 S. State:
- Stanley Karnow, Vietnam: A History
- George C. Herring, ed. The Pentagon Papers
- Bao Ninh, The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam
- Graham Greene, The Quiet American
- Eric M. Bergerud, Red Thunder, Tropic LIghtning: The world of a Combat Divison in Vietnam
- Le Ly Hayslip, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
Course Pack (available at Dollar Bill, 611 Church St.)
HISTORY 229 / ANTHRCUL 226. Introduction to Historical Anthropology.
Section 001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). May not be repeated for credit.
Credits: (4).
Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
See ANTHRCUL 226.001.
HISTORY 247(448) / CAAS 247. Modern Africa.
Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East
Section 001.
Instructor(s):
Jean-Herve Gilbert Jezequel
Prerequisites & Distribution: CAAS 200 recommended. (4). (SS). (R&E). May not be repeated for credit.
Credits: (4).
Course Homepage: http://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2004/winter/history/247/001.nsf
No Description Provided. Contact the Department.
HISTORY 255. Gandhi's India.
Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East
Section 001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: HISTORY 206 recommended. (4). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit.
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term).
Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
This is a course that explores Modern India and M.K. Gandhi through the lens of several different analytical perspectives. Whether we use modernist, Marxist, psychoanalytic, feminist, or cultural discursive methodology decides what questions we will ask and what answers we might hope to find or be satisfied with. It will also decide our terminology and our sources, that is, our basic assumptions and the limits we are setting to our knowledge. In this course, therefore, we will study Gandhi: his biography,ideas, practices, successes and failures. We will also use Gandhi as a tool for the doing of History. We will read a dozen books and major articles each with a different interpretive approach, and the reviews of these. Then we will work with some fiction on Gandhi, his own writings, and contemporaries' writings, towards a critical paper on "the methodologies of writing on Gandhi." This critical work will, hopefully, include the further question: Is "Gandhi" or "Modern India" a particularly elusive topic? Does the topic require an approach that might perhaps have to be forged, beyond the existing approaches as we can identify them?
HISTORY 260 / AMCULT 260. Religion in America.
U.S. History
Section 001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: HISTORY 160 and 161 are recommended but not required. (3). (HU). May not be repeated for credit.
Credits: (3).
Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
This is a one-term introduction to the study of American religion from
colonial times to the present. The emphasis will be on religion as a
cultural system rather than as a set of formal beliefs or institutions.
We will explore
- the European roots of American religious forms;
- the rise of revivalism as a major cultural force in colonial and nineteenth-century America;
- the commercialization and fragmentation of religious life after the American Revolution;
- the place of women in the major religious traditions;
- the synthesis of African, Native, and Christian belief systems and the rise of the Black church as a political force;
- the emergence of fundamentalism on the political stage in the twentieth-century; and
- the wide diversity of sectarian beliefs in all eras of American history.
Students will read a variety of texts, and write several short papers as
well as a longer, research-based paper. A midterm and final exam are
required.
HISTORY 274 / CAAS 230. Survey of Afro-American History I.
U.S. History
Section 001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: CAAS 111. (3). (SS). May not be repeated for credit.
Credits: (3).
Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
See CAAS 230.001.
HISTORY 287 / ARMENIAN 287. Armenian History from Prehistoric Times to the Present.
Section 001 — Taught in English.
Instructor(s):
Gerard J Libaridian (glibarid@umich.edu)
Prerequisites & Distribution: Taught in English. (3). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit.
Credits: (3).
Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
"Armenian History from Prehistoric Times to the Present" explores the role of dynastic families and the nobility as well as intellectual élites and the Church in the rise and fall of different forms of Armenian statehood, from ancient and medieval kingdoms to the republics in the twentieth century. The course will cover successive political and economic systems throughout Armenian history as well as recent debates on domestic and foreign policy choices and their relationship to political parties and the Armenian Diaspora.
HISTORY 302. Topics in History.
Section 002 — History of Jewish Women.
Instructor(s):
Phyllis Mack
Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be elected up to three times for credit.
Credits: (3).
Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
In this course we examine the images, roles, and creativity of Jewish women from the medieval period until today, with special attention to issues of spirituality, the body and sexuality, and women's activities in work and politics. What do Jewish traditions tell us about the relation of women to God, to prayer and liturgy, and to the quest for social justice? What was the historical relationship between formal religion and daily life? What changes occur in the modern period, and how are Jewish women continuing to shape their own traditions?
The course will meet weekly and part of each discussion will be the paragraphs evaluating the readings that students post on the course 'bulletin board.' Students will also be required to present material from the readings in class. In addition, there will be two term papers, a shorter one (5-7 pages) due mid-semester, and a longer 7-10 paper due at the end of the course.
HISTORY 319. Europe Since 1945.
Section 001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). May not be repeated for credit.
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term).
Course Homepage: http://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2004/winter/history/319/001.nsf
This course examines the social, economic, political, and cultural history of the European continent (East and West, South and North) from the end of WWII to the present. The lectures will be organized both chronologically and thematically. A course like this cannot aim at exhaustiveness, and some important topics in national histories will not be covered. We will focus instead on transnational events and movements that affected the lives of Europeans across the boundaries of the single nation states. As a rule, particular national cases will be discussed mostly as examples of general patterns and processes. We will deal with a wide range of sources (from monographs and scholarly articles to movies, memoirs, and works of fiction) in our attempt to move beyond the level of state policies and capture the meanings of events for the historical actors who lived through them. Topics will include the politics of the Cold War, the Stalinization of Eastern Europe, the process of European integration, the advent of mass consumption, protest movements in capitalist and socialist countries, and the fall of communism after 1989 and its consequences.
Readings:
- Wegs and Ladrech, Europe Since 1945. A Concise History;
- Peter Schneider, The Wall Jumper;
- Franz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism;
- Angelo Quattrocchi and Tom Nairn, The Beginning of the End: France, May 1968;
- Peter Maas, Love Thy Neighbor;
- Katherine Hayter, Open Borders;
- Slavenka Drakulic, Café Europa;
- Course packet
HISTORY 322 / GERMAN 322. The Origins of Nazism.
Section 001 — Taught in English.
Prerequisites & Distribution: Taught in English. (4). (HU). (R&E). May not be repeated for credit.
Credits: (4).
Course Homepage: http://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2004/winter/history/322/001.nsf
This course explores the origins and the outcomes of the Nazi seizure of power in Germany in 1933. Because no single factor can explain why Germans consented to Nazi
rule or why so few resisted Nazi persecution and genocide, we will take a multi-layered approach to this question, examining the relationships among and between political, cultural, social, and economic change. The first half of this course explores the vibrant culture and fractured politics of the Weimar Republic (1918-1933), which was deeply marked by the first World War. Our study of Weimar captures the hope and optimism that underpinned its culture and politics, but also explores how and why the Nazis emerged from this very culture to assault and dismantle it. In the second half of the course we examine the ideologies and practices of the Nazi "racial state" and the forces that drove it into war and genocide. Students will examine the blurry lines between consent and dissent, complicity and resistance in the everyday lives of both perpetrators and victims of the regime. Finally, we will investigate the connections between racial persecution and the war of conquest launched by the Nazis in 1939.
Team-taught by two professors from History and German, course materials will include not only texts, but also film, art, literature, and personal memoirs from the Weimar and Nazi periods.
Format: two lectures, one discussion per week. Requirements include midterm, final, and occasional short response papers.
HISTORY 326. Modern Italy: 1815 to Present.
Section 001 — Taught in English. Meets with ITALIAN 359.001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit.
Credits: (3).
Course Homepage: http://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2004/winter/history/326/001.nsf
This course examines the history of Italy 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 have found in Italy an ideal terrain for their conceptual and historical development. We will focus on the process of national unification, on the strategies implemented by the post-unification governments 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 to explore the profound transformation of Italian society and culture over the last two centuries.
HISTORY 331(439). Eastern Europe Since 1900.
Section 001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit.
Credits: (3).
Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
This course will explore the dramatic history of northeastern Europe (understood to include the territory now delineated by Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary) from 1918 to the present day. The people of this region experienced glorious moments such as the birth of independent nation-states after WWI and the overthrow of communism in 1989, but they have also suffered through decades of oppression by regimes of both the right and the left. Most horrifically, they stood at the very center of the mid 20th century's violence, enduring the full terror of WWII, the Shoah, and Stalinism. Multimedia presentations will help students visualize the lifestyles of the region's ethnically and religiously diverse population, the unspeakable nightmare of war and mass murder, and the gray (but not necessarily black-and-white) realities of communism.
Course requirements include two take-home essay projects and an in-class midterm and final.
HISTORY 333 / REES 396 / SLAVIC 396 / POLSCI 396 / SOC 393. Survey of East Central Europe.
Section 001 — The Political Economy of Transformation in Eastern Europe.
Instructor(s):
Katherine M Verdery
Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). May not be repeated for credit. No credit granted to those who have completed or are enrolled in REES 397. Laboratory fee ($10) required.
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term).
Lab Fee: Laboratory fee ($10) required.
Course Homepage: http://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2004/winter/anthrcul/317/001.nsf
See REES 393.001.
HISTORY 336 / CAAS 336 / WOMENSTD 336. Black Women in America.
U.S. History
Section 001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: CAAS 201 recommended. (3). (SS). May not be repeated for credit.
Credits: (3).
Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
See CAAS 336.001.
HISTORY 344 / RCSSCI 344. The History of Detroit in the 20th Century.
U.S. History
Section 001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: Sophomore standing. (4). (SS). May not be repeated for credit.
Credits: (4).
Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
See RCSSCI 344.001.
HISTORY 348(477). Latin America: The National Period.
Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East
Section 001 — Meets with HISTORY 478.001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). May not be repeated for credit.
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term).
Course Homepage: http://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2004/winter/history/348/001.nsf
This course examines the history of Latin America from the early nineteenth century
until the present. The approach is chronological and thematic. A temporal
narrative will be organized around these themes: (1) state formation, including
forms of political rule and the construction of collective identities at local,
national, and continental levels; (2) élite and popular relations, including cases
of rebellion, revolution, and state repression; and (3) forms of capitalist
development and transformations in class relations, ideologies of economic
development, and center-periphery linkages. The discussion of individual
countries and of specific topics will be intertwined throughout the course.
Classes will combine lecture and discussions. Students are required to read
the assigned materials BEFORE each class and are encouraged to participate in
class discussions. Written work will involve a short essay, a longer paper, a
midterm, and a final. Readings will include relevant sections from a textbook,
and articles, monographs, novels, short stories, newspapers and films, some of
which will be selected in response to class discussion and students' interests.
HISTORY 352(550). Imperial China: Ideas, Men, and Society.
Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East
Section 001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit.
Credits: (3).
Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
This is a systematic analysis of state, society, people, and ideas in Imperial China from 221 B.C. to the end of the 18th century. Each dynasty or period is examined by its characteristic development and unique features. The following topics are to be covered:
- the concept and structure of empire;
- emperors and political culture;
- great thinkers, influential political leaders, and powerful rebels;
- wars and foreigners;
- Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism;
- class, gender, and race;
- writers, literature, and the structure of feeling;
- science and technology; and
- eating culture, art of entertainment, and daily life.
Special features of the course include reading of Classical Chinese poetry, singing of Peking opera, and discussion of the Scientific Revolution and the birth of "Modern China" in the 17th century. The course is open to all undergraduates.
HISTORY 357(392). Topics in African History.
Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East
Section 001 — Conflict and Violence in Africa. Meets with History 595.001 and CAAS 358.002.
Instructor(s):
Jean-Herve Gilbert Jezequel
Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be elected up to three times for credit.
Credits: (3).
Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
No Description Provided. Contact the Department.
HISTORY 359. Visions of the Past.
Section 001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit.
Credits: (3).
Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
This course rests on the proposition that most of what most people have ever known about the past has come from deliberated aesthetic forms such as monuments, paintings, novels, and films. Many more Americans have read
or seen Gone With the Wind than have ever read a history of the Civil War;
films like Schindler's List have been the primary means by which Americans
and Europeans have conceptualized the destruction of European Jewry. This
course, therefore, will examine how and why history is represented in the
various aesthetic forms, and how those representations have created our sense of what is important in history. We shall read a half dozen
novels and plays, see several films, look at a variety of art and architecture, and listen to several musical forms. Classes will be lecture and discussion, and there will be one or two papers besides a midterm and final.
HISTORY 371 / WOMENSTD 371. Women in American History Since 1870.
U.S. History
Section 001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit.
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term).
Course Homepage: http://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2004/winter/history/371/001.nsf
This course will examine how social constructions of gender, race, class, and
sexuality have shaped women's lives in the U.S. from the Civil War to the present,
and how some women have pushed at the boundaries of those constructions through,
for example, changing patterns of work, leisure, education, and intimacy; through
political activism; through labor organizing; through involvement in a variety of
social movements; and through popular culture. We will emphasize the diversity of
women's historical experiences by region as well as by social category, and will
situate those experiences in the larger contexts of social, economic, and political
change on local, national, and even global levels. Requirements include a
midterm, a final, and a paper, as well as active participation in discussion
sections. Films will be shown.
HISTORY 374 / AMCULT 374. The Politics and Culture of the "Sixties."
U.S. History
Section 001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). May not be repeated for credit.
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term).
Course Homepage: http://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2004/winter/history/374/001.nsf
See AMCULT 374.001.
HISTORY 375 / WOMENSTD 375. A History of Witchcraft: The 1692 Salem Trials in Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspective.
U.S. History
Section 001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU). May not be repeated for credit.
Credits: (4).
Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
An exploration in both history and women's studies, this course focuses on early modern European and Euro-American witchcraft beliefs, representations, accusations, and trials. It addresses three central, interrelated questions: (1) what caused the Salem witchcraft outbreak of 1692? (2) why were most witches in Christian witchcraft traditions presumed to be female? and (3) how can we account for the transformations in witch imagery from the seventeenth century to the present. There are no definitive answers to any of these questions, only a variety of attempts by scholars and other writers to answer them. We will read and analyze some of the most influential of these attempts, evaluating their merits in light of both other interpretations and the original witchcraft documents. Students will develop and write about their own conclusions in several short papers and one long one, basing their arguments on evidence provided in the readings and course lectures. Please be advised that while the history of witchcraft is a fascinating subject, it is also a complex and therefore intellectually demanding one; though no prerequisites are required, regular attendance and intellectual engagement with the readings and discussions are necessary to do well in the course.
HISTORY 378 / AMCULT 314. History of Asian Americans in the U.S.
U.S. History
Section 001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). May not be repeated for credit.
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term).
Course Homepage: http://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2004/winter/amcult/314/001.nsf
See AMCULT 314.001.
HISTORY 382 / MEMS 382. History of the Jews from the Spanish Expulsion to the Eve of Enlightenment.
Section 001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit.
Credits: (3).
Course Homepage: http://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2004/winter/history/382/001.nsf
This course will survey major trends in Jewish history in European and Mediterranean lands from c. 1450 to c. 1700. The themes of this course include: developments in Jewish communal structure, familial structure; the question of "marrano" or converso identity; the relationship of Jews and Judaism to the Catholic Church and to the events and ideas of the Reformation; the economic, political, and theoretical relationship between the Jews and developing European states and the Ottoman empire. Specific topics to be addressed include: the impact of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain and Portugal; the emergence and spread of Lurianic Kabbalah;
the development of the ghetto in the Italian states; the emergence of Jewish mercantile communities in Northern Europe and in the "New World"; the "court Jews"; male and female expressions of Jewish piety and folk-religion; the Sabbatian movement; and rabbinic authority. Readings will
include two seventeenth century Jewish autobiographies (of Leone Modena, a
Venetian Rabbi) and of Gluckl of Hameln, a Jewish merchant woman of Hamburg);
an early modern printed work describing the customs of the Jews of Italy, and
other primary sources and selections from recent scholarship. Prerequisites: none, but Judaic Studies 205, History 110 or History 381 are
advised.
HISTORY 391. Topics in European History.
Section 001 — Letters, Gender, and the French Enlightenment. Taught in English. Meets with FRENCH 331.001, INSTHUM 311.001, & WOMENSTD 345.003.
Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be elected twice for credit.
Credits: (3).
Course Homepage: http://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2004/winter/history/391/001.nsf
The eighteenth century has variously been described as the epistolary century, the Age of Enlightenment, and the century of women. In this course we will explore the French eighteenth century as these three dimensions intersect in the writings of the period. Readings will include such major Enlightenment works as: Montesquieu, The Persian Letters, Voltaire, Letters on England, Graffigny, Letters of a Peruvian Woman, Diderot, Letter on the Blind, Rousseau, La Nouvelle Heloise, and Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons, as well as letters by Voltaire and Julie de Lespinasse. All readings will be in English translation, although students with a reading knowledge of French are welcome to do any or all of the readings in French.
Questions to be explored include: How do writers use the epistolary form to express or shape Enlightenment values and ideas? What relationship is there between letters as a form of writing and Enlightenment as a way of thinking and acting in the world? How is gender as a theme expressed in Enlightenment epistolary writing? What do the different roles of women and men in these texts suggest about Enlightenment views of gender? What can we learn about different understandings of the Enlightenment's promise for women from comparing epistolary texts written by women and men?
Expectations for student work:
1) To keep up with and be prepared to discuss weekly readings in seminar. Preparation will include weekly postings to coursetools discussion page.
2) To lead class discussion once over the course of the semester and write a brief report on that discussion.
3) To write 2 papers
5-page paper at mid-term based on course readings
12-15 page term paper that draws on readings outside the course. Students with a reading knowledge of French will have an opportunity to use their skills to draw upon a wider range of epistolary materials for this assignment.
HISTORY 391. Topics in European History.
Section 002 — Ethnic Minorities Central Europe. Meets with HISTORY 591.002.
Instructor(s):
Rita C-K Chin
Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be elected twice for credit.
Credits: (3).
Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
This course examines the shifting meanings and histories of ethnic minorities in Central Europe over the past 250 years. Its prime focus is the interactions between German-speaking peoples and the numerous ethnic groups within the Habsburg Empire (Hungarians, Czechs, Serbs, Croats, etc.), as well as Jews, Poles, Turks, and Afro-Germans.
The course uses two key analytical frameworks for thinking about ethnic minorities in this part of the European continent. The first, Central Europe or Mitteleuropa, complicates our conventional image of Germany as an ethnically homogeneous society. By broadening the geographic scope, the course draws attention to the specificity of the place itself, an area where competing empires (Napoleonic, Habsburg, Ottoman) overlapped and cross-pollinated. We will consider how different empires dealt with ethnic minorities and how minority status often shifted depending on one's territorial location.
The second framework for the course is nationalism. We will examine how the construction of nation-states, as well as the drawing and re-drawing of borders, played an important role in determining minority status. The course focuses on specific moments — the 1848 revolutions, the unification of Germany, World War I, the Third Reich, and Reunification — which radically altered the definition of who would be included and excluded as part of the "nation." The format of the course will be a mixture of lecture and discussion. Course requirements include a map quiz, two exams, and a short paper.
HISTORY 392(392). Topics in Asian History.
Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East
Section 001 — Women's Lives in Twentieth Century China: From the Personal to the Political. Meets with History 392.001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be elected twice for credit.
Credits: (3).
Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
See WOMENSTD 344.001.
HISTORY 393(393). Topics in U.S. History.
U.S. History
Section 001 — U.S. Intellectual History Since 1940.
Instructor(s):
Genter
Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be elected twice for credit. Laboratory fee required.
Credits: (3).
Lab Fee: Laboratory fee required.
Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
This course is an interdisciplinary exploration of the major intellectual and cultural developments in American life since 1940. We will explore how political shifts, industrial growth, and social change have affected the ways in which American intellectuals and artists have thought about such traditional topics as identity, subjectivity, political and social equality, race, gender, and democratic participation. In particular, we will examine the ambiguous development of the "self" in the late twentieth century — how political and cultural changes have altered our understandings of individual identity and expression. Topics include: existentialism, modernism, critical theory, abstract expressionism, the Beat movement, the New Left, feminism, postmodernism, and queer theory. Readings include works by Jack Kerouac, Richard Wright, Herbert Marcuse, Adrienne Rich, Ayn Rand, and Fredric Jameson. The format will be lecture/discussion. Requirements include attendance, midterm and final exam, and a short written assignment.
HISTORY 393(393). Topics in U.S. History.
U.S. History
Section 002 — Contemporary Issues in Native America. Meets with AMCULT 496.002.
Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be elected twice for credit. Laboratory fee required.
Credits: (3).
Lab Fee: Laboratory fee required.
Course Homepage: http://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2004/winter/amcult/496/002.nsf
White Americans once thought Native Americans were a vanishing people, but
Native Americans remain a vibrant part of the country's life. This course looks
at a range of issues that confront many Indians and Indian communities today.
Who is an Indian? How should Indians be portrayed in film and other media? How
much freedom should Native American communities have to run their own affairs
without outside interference? How should Native American communities provide
for the economic development of their reservations? The course will consider
these questions and others in a seminar setting emphasizing discussion of
readings and writing.
Prerequisites: None.
HISTORY 395. Reading Course.
Instructor(s):
Prerequisites & Distribution: Open only to history concentrators by written permission of instructor. (1-4). (Excl). (INDEPENDENT). May be repeated for credit for a maximum of 8 credits. A maximum of eight credits can be elected through HISTORY 394 and 395.
Credits: (1-4; 1-3 in the half-term).
Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
This is an independent 1-4 credit course open only to history concentrators by written permission of the instructor.
HISTORY 396. History Colloquium.
Instructor(s):
Prerequisites & Distribution: Enrollment limited to junior and senior History concentrators by permission only. History concentrators are required to elect HISTORY 396 or 397. (4). (SS). May be repeated for credit for a maximum of 12 credits.
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term).
Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
No Description Provided. Contact the Department.
HISTORY 396. History Colloquium.
Section 001 — Cinema & Society Before Casablanca.
Prerequisites & Distribution: Enrollment limited to junior and senior History concentrators by permission only. History concentrators are required to elect HISTORY 396 or 397. (4). (SS). May be repeated for credit for a maximum of 12 credits.
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term).
Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
The growth and role of cinema in society makes one of the fascinating
stories of the last century. The movies have influenced society, and
society has channeled the development of cinema as well. We will look at
this relationship from the earliest narrative films up to 1943. Our discussions will range across technique, business history, the demography
of Hollywood, "documentaries," the claims of artistry, and also across the
Atlantic, so we can compare the use and misuse of film. All the movies
we view will be in black and white, and many will be silent. They require
close attention and patience. Written work will include analyses of film and historical inquiries about the interplay between the public and
its "reflection" on the screen.
HISTORY 396. History Colloquium.
Section 002 — Confucianism & Chinese History.
Prerequisites & Distribution: Enrollment limited to junior and senior History concentrators by permission only. History concentrators are required to elect HISTORY 396 or 397. (4). (SS). May be repeated for credit for a maximum of 12 credits.
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term).
Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
This course explores the Confucian principles of historiography and their dominant influences on the interpretation and writing of history in China from ancient to modern times. Specifically, the first part of the course examines the Confucian interpretive perspectives on the nature, meaning, function, and style of history. The second part studies the application of the Confucian theory of history in writing history and in promoting political reforms in China since the time of Confucius, and the third part analyzes the myth, reality, and misunderstanding of the Confucian tradition of history in political movements in early modern and modern China.
HISTORY 396. History Colloquium.
Section 003 — World of the Ship.
Prerequisites & Distribution: Enrollment limited to junior and senior History concentrators by permission only. History concentrators are required to elect HISTORY 396 or 397. (4). (SS). May be repeated for credit for a maximum of 12 credits.
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term).
Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
An exploration of the social, cultural, economic and legal dimensions of seventeenth and eighteenth century Anglo-American maritime life that scrutinizes the work of common laborers and situates their work in the expanding Atlantic economy. Topics include: captains, sailors, female and Black mariners, pirates, Captain Kidd, privateers, shipbuilding, medicine, scurvy, map-making, longitude, Captain Cook, commodity trading, naval warfare, mutiny, Captain Bligh, shipwrecks, and developments in admiralty law.
There will be six short papers and one medium-length paper required, along with weekly readings.
Books will be available for purchase at Shamam Drum Bookstore. All books and articles are also on reserve at the Shapiro Undergraduate Library.
HISTORY 396. History Colloquium.
Section 004 — Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and America.
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