Transfer Student Courses in History (Division 390)

Winter Term, 2000 (January 5 - April 26, 2000)

To see what Transfer Student courses have been added or changed in History this week go to What's New This Week.

Section 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.

See Korean 150.001.

U.S. History

Section 001.

Instructor(s): Susan Juster (sjuster@umich.edu)

Prerequisites & 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.

Section 001.

Instructor(s): Victor Lieberman (eurasia@umich.edu)

Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS).

Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term).

Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.

This course examines the wars that were fought in and around Vietnam from 1945 to 1975, with primary emphasis on the period of heavy American involvement starting in the mid-1950's. The course seeks to assess the origins, strategy, and impact of U.S. intervention,and to relate that involvement both to U.S. domestic politics and to wider global concerns. At the same time the course will explain the motivation and domestic appeal of the Vietnamese Communists and of their indigenous opponents. In short, the Vietnam war will be analyzed both as the longest and most controversial foreign war in American history, and as the climax to an Asian social revolution that began during the colonial period. Meets three times a week for 50 minutes, plus one 50-minute discussion section. Midterm, final exam, and optional paper.

Section 001.

Instructor(s): Michael Wintroub (wintroub@umich.edu)

Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (Excl).

Credits: (4; 3 in the half term).

Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.

The first European observers of America saw a world populated alternatively by savages or by angels, they saw peoples apparently without laws, religion, rulers, or indeed clothes. Yet much of what they saw was conditioned by what they expected to see. This course will set out to explore the social and intellectual world(s) of those who first came to the Americas. It will follow these explorers, conquerors, and chroniclers on their journeys from the Old World to the New, and will analyze not simply their impact on the New World, e.g., "the narrative of the conquest" – but how the experience of this New World interacted with and fundamentally changed the way Europeans thought about themselves and the universe(s) they inhabited.

Section 001.

Instructor(s): Juan 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 281. Comparative Study in History and Culture.

Section 001 – Technology, Politics, and Culture. Meets with RC Social Science 271.001.

Instructor(s): Gabrielle Hecht (hechtg@umich.edu)

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British History

Section 001.

Instructor(s): W. Schwarz

Prerequisites & Distribution: Hist. 221 is recommended. (3). (Excl).

Credits: (3).

Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.

This course will provide an episodic history of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 2000. It emphasizes the connection between politics and culture. The basic story is simple enough. I will suggest that out of the second world war there developed a social consensus built around a leftish politics (welfare plus a degree of social democracy); a conformist culture; and a conservative global context (empire and cold war). Arguably, this held in place from 1945 to 1956. In the years from 1956 to 1964 this consensus unraveled socially – most spectacularly in cultural terms, but also critically around the end of empire. The period from 1964 to 1979 comprises a variety of attempts – from both Labour and Conservative politicians – to put back together again the consensus politics, remaining (largely) within the terms of the consensus itself. These years were experienced by many in Britain as a period of prolonged crisis. Mrs. Thatcher's arrival in 1979 signaled a radical attempt to break through this impasse, and to create a new political and moral order. Although Mrs. Thatcher herself came unstuck in this attempt, we need to ask whether – in the longer term – she might not have been successful. We shall close the course by exploring the degree to which New Labour, under the leadership of Mr. Blair, has constructed a new social settlement. That's the story.

Section 001 – Eastern Europe Since 1900. Meets with History 439.001

Instructor(s): Brian Porter (baporter@umich.edu)

Prerequisites & Distribution: No credit granted to those who have completed or are enrolled in REES 397. (4). (SS). Laboratory fee ($10) required.

Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term).

Lab Fee: Laboratory fee ($10) required.

Course Homepage: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~baporter/syl43900.html

See History 439.001.

U.S. History

Section 001.

Instructor(s): Maria Montoya (mmontoya@umich.edu)

Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). (R&E).

Credits: (3).

Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.

This course is an exploration of the history and culture of Latinos in the United States from the colonial era to the present. We will examine the diversity among groups that make up the Latino population of the United States, paying particular attention to the three largest subgroups of Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban origin. Topics will include the varied experiences of colonialism and immigration; the role of race prejudice and discrimination in shaping social mobility; cultural transformation and regional variations in language, religion, and music; gender as a central variable in defining issues of identity and opportunity; and the birth of a Latino civil rights movement.

Section 002 – Working Class America: Emancipation to Suburbanization, 1863-1980.

Instructor(s): Robert Self (rself@umich.edu)

Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be elected for credit twice.

Credits: (3).

Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.

This course explores the dynamics of class and race in the United States from the end of slavery to contemporary transformations in urban geography. In between we will examine how the American working class, formed from the descendants of four continents, shaped and was shaped by American history. This course takes a multi-dimensional approach to social and political history, exploring broad transformations such as emancipation, industrialization, urbanization, immigration, migration, the growth of the federal government, and suburbanization in the context of the lives, families, and politics of working people. Our readings and topics focus on the relationship between work and various forms of racial power, on gendered divisions of labor, on the role of unions and labor politics in American history, and on the historical position of U.S. workers relative to the world economy and the global division of labor.

History 397. History Colloquium.

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Section 002 – Writing History: Modern Applications and Ancient Chinese Traditions

Instructor(s): Chun-schu Chang

Prerequisites & Distribution: History concentrators are required to elect Hist. 396 or 397. Only 12 credits of History 394, 395, 396, 397, 398, and 399 may be counted toward a concentration plan in history. (4). (HU). May be repeated for a total of twelve credits.

Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term).

Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.

Writing History: Modern Approaches and Ancient Chinese Traditions. This course is on and for intellectual controversies in the study and writing of history in modern times. We will examine these controversies by taking up the areas of the most fundamental concerns in historical studies: the nature and concept of history as an intellectual discipline, the defined domain of sources and "raw materials" for historical research, the functions of history and "historical studies," the issue of multi-dimensional or unitary methodology in historical research, open philosophical versus social-science interpretive structures in historical writing, narrative versus analytic style in historical discourse, and the current state of debate on the direction of historical writing and teaching among historians. During our discussion comparisons between Western and Chinese historiographic traditions will be drawn to see the origins, history, and trifling nature of these controversies in modern historical studies. What will be the true "New History" in view of our critical discussion in the course? The instructor has already offered his own in his writings. Each member of the class will be required to write a paper on the subject.

Section 004 – Varieties of Religious Experience in Medieval Europe

Instructor(s): Diane Hughes (dohughes@umich.edu)

Prerequisites & Distribution: History concentrators are required to elect Hist. 396 or 397. Only 12 credits of History 394, 395, 396, 397, 398, and 399 may be counted toward a concentration plan in history. (4). (HU). May be repeated for a total of twelve credits.

Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term).

Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.

This course will consider the ways in which religion was experienced and expressed on the European continent from the time of Rome's official adoption of Christianity in the fourth century until the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth. Some topics to be included will be the struggle between Christianity and paganism and the ways in which the practices of the latter left an imprint on Catholic religious expression; the tension between an organized Church which insisted on the primacy of rites performed by a priestly elite and a laity which desired more direct access to the divine; the struggle between orthodoxy and heresy; the role of women within a Church organized around a male priesthood; the place of mediating saints (and the Virgin Mary); and the relations between Christians and Jews. Consideration of a variety of original sources will also include artistic representation, from icons to narrative painting.

Section 006 – Towards a New Century: A Cultural History of Germany at the Turn of the 20th Century

Instructor(s): Dorothee Wierling (wierling@umich.edu)

Prerequisites & Distribution: History concentrators are required to elect Hist. 396 or 397. Only 12 credits of History 394, 395, 396, 397, 398, and 399 may be counted toward a concentration plan in history. (4). (HU). May be repeated for a total of twelve credits.

Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term).

Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.

In this course we will explore some of the many changes in German society and culture between 1880 and 1930. This period is generally regarded as one of extreme modernisation, marked by rapid urbanisation, new perspectives on the human body and soul, (such as psychoanalysis), youth culture, new gender roles and new concepts of a rationalised work sphere as well as the development of mass culture such as film.

On the other hand, these rapid changes produced many anxieties and counter movements, which will also be examined in the course. In addition, we will take into consideration that these were phenomenons typical for all industrial societies of the time, and must be analysed accordingly. This is certainly the case for World War I, which was a crucial and traumatic experience, marking the final step toward the 20th century.

British History

Section 001.

Instructor(s): Michael MacDonald (mmacdon@umich.edu)

Prerequisites & Distribution: Hist. 220 and junior standing are recommended. (3). (Excl).

Credits: (3).

Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.

This course is about the "first three minutes" of the modern mental universe – in actuality, about three centuries of historical time (1500-1800). It concentrates on how the "big bang" of the Protestant Reformation blasted apart a world view and a culture that had slowly developed over a thousand years. The explosive force of that strangely contingent event, renewed by subsequent eruptions of religious conflict and civil war, divided the English people culturally as never before. Magic declined, miracles and malevolent witches disappeared, the prestige of the ancient sciences of astrology and alchemy eroded. New and powerful philosophical ideas about human understanding and physical reality flourished; scientific explanations for a vast array of celestial, earthly, and mental phenomena proliferated and were embraced by laypersons as the basis of a new faith, the faith in (someone else's) reason. The world view that dominates modern English (and Western) culture emerged from almost three hundred years of charged conflict and began rapidly to evolve into contemporary scientism. And yet the shattering effect of the events that powered cultural change also made it impossible for secularization and rational religion fully to triumph. The hold of rational religion and secularism on the minds of the majority of ordinary men and women remained less complete than on the minds of the educated, governing classes. The result finally was a cultural and social realignment. The elite fashioned a "superculture" that is dominated by religious rationalism and scientistic faith; the dissenting sects, the lower classes and marginalized groups have sustained and created subcultures that are characterized by supernatural wonder and sudden infusions of spiritual and emotional energy. Much has changed since 1800 when this process was more or less completed, but these cultural and class divisions have not disappeared, and they have complicated ethnic relations as well as politics. In sum, this course is finally a meditation on how England lost its medieval mind and found its modern, divided sensibility. Principal readings will include all or part of Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars; Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic; James Sharpe, Instruments of Darkness: Witchcraft in England, 1550-1800; Peter French, John Dee: The Life of a Renaissance Magus; and Steven Shapin, The Scientific Revolution. A course pack of articles and original sources will also be required. Students will be asked to write three short (five page) papers on the readings for class; an in-class, midterm examination and a two-hour final examination.

Section 001.

Instructor(s): John Fine

Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl).

Credits: (3; 2 in the half-term).

Course Homepage: http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Reserves/W00/HS431/index.html

This is a lecture course which surveys the history of the modern Balkans – the area which consists of the ex-Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Albania – from roughly 1878 to the present. There are no prerequisites nor required background. Interested first-year students should feel welcome. Grading is based on: one hour exam, a one-hour written exam, writing on one essay question out of about four, one course paper (approximately 15 pages, topic according to student interest but cleared with instructor), and a written final exam (two essay questions to be chosen from a list of about eight questions). Major issues to be covered are: the crisis of 1875-78 with international involvement ending with the Treaty of Berlin, Croatia and Bosnia under the Habsburgs, the development of Bulgaria after 1878, the Macedonia problem, terrorist societies, World War I, the formation of Yugoslavia, nationality problems in Yugoslavia between the Wars, German penetration and the rise of dictatorships in the inter-war Balkans, World War II with Yugoslav and Greek resistance movements (including the Greek Civil War), Tito's Yugoslavia, its 1948 break with the USSR and Yugoslavia's special path to socialism. Nationality problems, the break-up of Yugoslavia, and the ensuing wars.

Section 001.

Instructor(s): Valerie Kivelson (vkivelso@umich.edu)

Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl).

Credits: (3).

Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.

Since medieval times, Westerners have brought back tales of exoticism and barbarism from Russia to their homelands, but few have taken the time to understand the nature of Russian society and culture. This course attempts to examine early Russian society in its own terms, while also studying the historiographic tradition and the issues at stake for the various historians of the field. The course spans the history of Russia from the ninth century, when written records begin, to Peter the Great at the end of the seventeenth century. Topics include the formation of the Russian state, the conversion to Orthodox Christianity, the invasion of the Mongol horde, and the reign of Ivan the Terrible. The course emphasizes interpretive issues, historiographic debates and questions of historical method. Class sessions will combine lecture and discussion. Students will be evaluated on the basis of two short papers (5-7 pages), a midterm and a final exam. There are no prerequisites.

Section 001 – Meets with Russian and East European Studies 396.001

Instructor(s): Brian Porter (baporter@umich.edu)

Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl).

Credits: (3).

Course Homepage: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~baporter/syl43900.html

During this century Eastern Europe has been at the center of two World Wars and at least three major revolutions. The people of this region experienced the birth of independent national states after World War I and the overthrow of communism in 1989, but in between they suffered through decades of oppression by regimes of both the right and the left, and witnessed the monumental nightmare of World War II and the Holocaust. History 439 will explore the glories and the tragedies that the 20th century brought to Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. Multimedia presentations will help bring alive the crushing poverty of peasant life, the richness of Eastern Europe's multiethnic tapestry, the unspeakable horrors of war, the gray (but not necessarily black-and-white) realities of communism, and the hopes and disappointments of the century's concluding decade.

Course requirements include two take-home essay projects and an in-class midterm and final. Students may sign up for this class for 3 credits (as History 439) or 4 credits (as REES 396). The latter option will include a weekly discussion section.

U.S. History

Section 001.

Instructor(s): Julius Scott (jsscott@umich.edu)

Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (SS).

Credits: (3).

Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.

This lecture course covers the period from about 1760 to 1815, focusing on the origins, character, and aftermath of the American Revolution. It revisits many of the familiar themes of this period – the rise of opposition to Britain, the nature of the military conflict that ensued, republican experiments that followed independence, and the new order established by the Constitution. Much of the inquiry, however, will center on the Revolution "as a social movement." To what extent did the Revolution act as a force for change within America? What role did conflicts over class, gender, and race play? Where does the American Revolution fit within the history of the "Atlantic world" during this period? Readings, which include monographs as well as a broad selection of primary source material, average about 150 pages per week. Written assignments include a midterm and a comprehensive final exam and two essays (each 8 pp., typewritten, double-spaced).

Section 001 – Meets with Asian Studies 381.001

Instructor(s): Henry Em

Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl).

Credits: (3).

Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.

See Korean 473.001.

Section 001.

Instructor(s): Sueann Caulfied (scaul@umich.edu)

Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS).

Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term).

Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.

This course examines the history of Latin America from the early nineteenth century until the present. The approach is both thematic and chronological, focusing on:

1. the colonial heritage, political independence, and the development of new forms of political rule;
2. agrarian transformations and labor systems;
3. urban growth and industrialization;
4. nationalism and struggles to define national cultures;
5. social constructions of racial, ethnic and gender identities; and
6. revolutionary movements and military responses.

Section 004 – Languages Across the Curriculum. Students who enroll in this section should also enroll in University Course 490.001, a one-credit course will count towards a certificate in advanced second-language competence. Students will complete extra reading and writing assignments in Spanish and discussion will be conducted in both Spanish and English. Please note meeting time for this section is longer. This is for undergraduates. Students should have fourth-term Spanish competency. PLEASE NOTE – YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ENROLL IN UC 490.001 UNTIL AFTER THE TERM BEGINS. Instructions on how to do this will be explained in the first few class meetings.

British History

Section 001.

Instructor(s): Michael MacDonald (mmacdon@umich.edu)

Prerequisites & Distribution: Hist. 111 or 221. (3). (Excl).

Credits: (3).

Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.

Political, economic, and social developments from the age of the Whig oligarchs to the era of the Great Reform Bill; the classical constitution and its breakdown; the triumph of ideology and reform; the American revolution and the reconstruction of the British Empire; and the Industrial Revolution and the transformation of British society.

Section 001 – Meets with History 591.003.

Instructor(s): Stefanie Siegmund (siegmund@umich.edu)

Prerequisites & Distribution: Upperclass standing. (3). (Excl).

Credits: (3).

Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.

The separate histories of the Church and of Jews in the Italian states provide context for the critical interactions between the two. Moving chronologically and reading secondary and primary sources that include legislation, inquisitorial transcripts, sermons, plays and visual iconography, we examine three main topics: the activities of itinerant preachers in the 1470s, the inquisition of Marranos and Lutheran heretics, and the program of the Catholic Reformation. What can we learn about the history of Christianity from discussions of Jews in Christian laws, sermons, plays and art? How important was the "otherness" of Christians for Jewish self-definition, or of Jews for Christian self-definition? In addition to thematic papers, a paper based on a primary source (in translation or in the original language) will allow you to deepen your understanding of the relationship between Jews and Christians in late Renaissance Italy.

Section 001.

Instructor(s): Dena Goodman

Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl).

Credits: (3).

Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.

A history of France, with the emphasis on the interplay of shifting attitudes and social change in preparation for the French Revolution.

Section 001.

Instructor(s): Stephanie Platz (splatz@umich.edu)

Prerequisites & Distribution: Hist. 287 recommended but not required. (3). (Excl).

Credits: (3).

Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.

An in-depth investigation of the history of the Armenian people in the last century, especially the period of the massacres in the Ottoman Empire and the rebuilding of Armenian society in the Soviet Union.

Section 001 – Meets with MARC 411.001

Instructor(s): Chun-schu Chang

Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (HU).

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: (1) the concept and structure of empire; (2) emperors and political culture; (3) great thinkers, influential political leaders, and powerful rebels; (4) wars and foreigners; (5) Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism; (6) class, gender, and race; (7) writers, literature, and the structure of feeling; (8) science and technology; and (9) 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 and graduates.

Section 001 – Topic?

Instructor(s): Victor Lieberman (eurasia@umich.edu)

Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl).

Credits: (3).

Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.

The course examines the history of Burma, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam from roughly 1400 to 1850, on the eve of European colonial conquest.

Section 002 – Citizenship and Development of Human Rights. Meets with Political Science 688.001

Instructor(s): Albert Van Goudoever (albertvg@umich.edu)

Prerequisites & Distribution: Upper-class standing. (3). (Excl). May be elected for credit twice.

Credits: (3).

Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.

The genesis of the nation-state in the 19th and 20th centuries went hand in hand with the political emancipation of the states' inhabitants. The liberal and socialist movements resulted eventually in the participation of all citizens. These intellectual movements originated in the idea of human rights (including political, social, and cultural rights) extending to all people instead of being restricted to privileged estates. At the same time, they gave rise to the modern notion of citizenship, which entailed numerous obligations of the citizen toward the state (education, military service, identification, etc.) as part of a system requiring discipline of the citizenry. The modern state has extended its power while, particularly in the case of dictatorships, usurping the powers of citizens, such that the citizen has had to be protected against the state. And as the formation of the nation-state has entailed the identification of the individual citizen in national terms, minority problems have arisen as well. Such antagonistic factors brought about a new human rights movement, now involving protection on an international scale (e.g., by the League of Nations after World War I, and by the United Nations after World War II). This course will trace the intellectual origins and various manifestations of the human rights movement, and its effects in international law and politics. It will also trace the origins and manifestations of the modern notion of citizenship. We shall discuss the problem of the universality of human rights (or are they a mission of northwestern Europe?), the problem of collective versus individual protection, and, centrally, the application of human and civil rights in real situations. The course is constructed along the imagined line of approach of a book that does not exist except in the common activity of all participants in the class. Careful attention will be paid to current events in the news.

Expectations: active participation in discussion, one or more oral presentations, and a term project.

Section 003 – Jews and Christians in Early Modern Italy (1400-1700). Meets with Medieval and Renaissance Collegium 425.001 and History 518.001.

Instructor(s): Stefanie Siegmund (siegmund@umich.edu)

Prerequisites & Distribution: Upper-class standing. (3). (Excl). May be elected for credit twice.

Credits: (3).

Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.

The separate histories of the Church and of Jews in the Italian states provide context for the critical interactions between the two. Moving chronologically and reading secondary and primary sources that include legislation, inquisitorial transcripts, sermons, plays and visual iconography, we examine three main topics: the activities of itinerant preachers in the 1470s, the inquisition of Marranos and Lutheran heretics, and the program of the Catholic Reformation. What can we learn about the history of Christianity from discussions of Jews in Christian laws, sermons, plays and art? How important was the "otherness" of Christians for Jewish self-definition, or of Jews for Christian self-definition? In addition to thematic papers, a paper based on a primary source (in translation or in the original language) will allow you to deepen your understanding of the relationship between Jews and Christians in late Renaissance Italy.

Section 001 – Asian Women in Transition. Meets with American Culture 510.001

Instructor(s): Kathleen Uno (ksuno@umich.edu)

Prerequisites & Distribution: Upper-class standing. (3). (Excl). May be elected for credit twice.

Credits: (3).

Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.

This course will explore the experiences of Asian women who have migrated to the U.S. from Korea, China, Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam, and South Asia from the late 19th century to the present – examining women's lives in Asia and the U.S. with some consideration of Philipinas in diaspora. Major units include women and changing families and sexualities, shifting patterns of women and work, and women's issues and movements. A lecture-discussion course for undergraduate and graduate students interested in Asian, Asian American, and women's studies.