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Transfer Student Courses in HistoryThis page was created at 7:16 PM on Mon, Jan 21, 2002. Winter Academic Term, 2002 (January 7 - April 26)Open courses in History Wolverine Access Subject listing for HISTORY Winter Academic Term '02 Time Schedule for History.
HISTORY 111. Modern Europe.
European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 001.Instructor(s): Jonathan Marwil (jmarwil@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Hist. 110 is recommended as prerequisite. (4). (SS). 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. HistorySection 001.Instructor(s): Philip J Deloria (pdeloria@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course will trace the formation and development of the United States from precontact American Indian societies through the Civil War. We will pay particular attention to intercultural contact, ecology and economy, cultural production and consumption, the importance of war, and the role of ideas, among other key themes.
HISTORY 161. United States, 1865 to the Present.
U.S. HistorySection 001.Instructor(s): David R Smith (davidsm@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course will examine the main narrative of events that have shaped the American nation since 1865 by studying the extent to which the nation's rhetoric about "democracy," "liberty," "rights," "independence," and "freedom" has been a reality in the United States. In particular, it will explore how the nation has been transformed by the rise of industry, immigration, urbanization, social protest, racial conflict, war, and other major events. While in many regards concepts like "democracy," "liberty," "rights," "independence," and "freedom" have been embraced and championed by the American nation, not all groups within the United States have equally shared in the rewards of these ideas. Over time, numerous attempts have been made to challenge the established power structures that have prevented various groups from having full access to the rights afforded all citizens by the evolving meaning of the U.S. Constitution. Through a range of readings, this course will examine this central idea about the shaping of modern America: since the end of the Civil War to what extent have the institutions legal, social, economic, and political of the United States protected "life, liberty, and property" equally for the citizens of the U.S.? Embedded within this discussion of the internal divisions and conflicts that have shaped the American nation, this course also will explore the ways in which these factors have given shape to the rising power of the United States on an international level. That is, what dominant issues and groups have played the critical role in shaping the policies that led the United States increasingly into a position of world power? As an introductory survey course, the class will examine the many key events that are critical to broadening our collective understanding of modern America and its position in the world today.
HISTORY 211 / MEMS 211. Later Middle Ages, 1100-1500.
Europe History from European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 001.Instructor(s): Paolo Squatriti (pasqua@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS).
Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. 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 CoursesSection 001.Instructor(s): Victor B 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.
HISTORY 221. Survey of British History from 1688.
European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 001.Instructor(s): Kali A K Israel (kisrael@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This lecture course covers the history of Britain in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Topics include: British society and politics in the 18th century; 18th century economic and cultural change; industrialization and the making of modern class identities; the impact of the French revolution on British politics; regional differences and the histories of Scotland and Wales; the "Irish question" in the 19th and 20th centuries; the development of working class politics; Liberalism, Conservatism, and the emergence of Labour politics; gender and the activities and ideas of women; sexuality in the 19th and 20th centuries; imperialism, science, and the ideas about race; the position and activities of Blacks and Asians in Britain; social and cultural modernity; the impact of the two world wars; Britain in the post-colonial era; British-American relations; youth in Britain in the post-war era; the sixties and seventies; Thatcherism; and contemporary British social, political, and cultural movements. Assignments will include several short papers; sections; and a take-home final. No special background is required, but familiarity with modern European history would be very useful. Readings will include both primary and secondary materials and both historical and literary sources.
HISTORY 229 / ANTHRCUL 226. Introduction to Historical Anthropology.
Section 001.Instructor(s): David William Cohen (dwcohen@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Anthropology 101. (4). (SS). Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. See Cultural Anthropology 226.001.
HISTORY 287 / ARMENIAN 287. Armenian History from Prehistoric Times to the Present.
European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 001.Instructor(s): Gerard J LibaridianPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course explores the role of dynastic families and the nobility as well as intellectual elites 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, the debates on foreign policy choices and their relationship to political elites and the Armenian Diaspora.
HISTORY 302. Topics in History.
Section 003 Colonial Culture/Postcol. History. Meets with Anthropology 356.001Instructor(s): Ann L Stoler (astoler@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. See Cultural Anthropology 356.001.
HISTORY 319. Europe Since 1945.
European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 001.Instructor(s): Dario Gaggio (dariog@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. 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 class 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.
HISTORY 322 / GERMAN 322. The Origins of Nazism.
European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 001.Instructor(s): Kathleen M Canning (kcanning@umich.edu) , Kerstin BarndtPrerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU). (R&E).
Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. 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 politcs, 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 concent 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 thw 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 331(439). Eastern Europe Since 1900.
European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 001.Instructor(s): Brian A Porter (baporter@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~baporter/ During the twentieth century, Eastern Europe was at the center of two World Wars and 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 oppresion by regimes of both the right and the left, and witnessed the monumental nightmare of World War II and the Holocaust. This course will explore the glories and the tragedies 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 at the start of a new century. Grading for the class will be based on two short in-class exams, two take-home essays, and participation in discussion section.
HISTORY 348(477). Latin America: The National Period.
Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle EastSection 001.Instructor(s): Fernando Coronil (coronil@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 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) elite 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 378 / AMCULT 314. History of Asian Americans in the U.S.
U.S. HistorySection 001.Instructor(s): Scott Kurashige (kurashig@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
HISTORY 391. Topics in European History.
European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 001 Scientific Revolution.Instructor(s): Michael Wintroub (wintroub@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be elected for credit twice. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. In this course, we will examine early modern theories about the nature of the physical universe. We will explore magical and spiritual understandings of the cosmos and their relationship to what has come to be known as the "Scientific Revolution". In the most general sense, we will be concerned with understanding how knowledge of the spiritual and physical order of the world was intertwined with political, social, and moral orders(s) defining human existence.
HISTORY 392(392). Topics in Asian History.
Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle EastSection 001 Environmental History of China.Instructor(s): Terry D BodenhornPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be elected for credit twice. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course examines the long relationship between humans and nature in China, with special attention given to the impact of industrialization and population growth on the environment during the twentieth century. We will consider four basic topics over the course of the term:
The success of the class depends on active and informed participation. Grades will be determined by participation in and leadership of discussions; two short summary-response papers (2-3 pages each); and a reseach project which will include a draft, formal peer critique(s), final paper (12-14 pages), and in-class presentation. Books will be available at Shaman Drum. Course packs will be available at Dollar Bill.
HISTORY 401. Problems in Greek History II.
European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 001 Greek Religion: Cult&Competition.Instructor(s): Geoffrey Chaucer SchmalzPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course explores the ancient experience of Greek religion, from the perspective of both the community and the individual, male and female both. Within the religious space of sanctuaries and through the diverse media of architecture, iconography, and textual evidence, we will investigate the central practices of Greek religion: sacrifice and cult ritual, festivals, and sport as athletic competition and maturation rite. The structure of the course evolves around the twin aspects of Greek religion, as a symbolic expression of the Greek city-state (as Polis Religion) and of Greek culture and society as a whole (as Panhellenic Religion). Hence the course is divided into two parts: first an investigation into Polis Religion as experienced in ancient Athens, whose annual religious calendar and sacred landscape is especially well documented; then an exploration of the religious life of Greece's Panhellenic sanctuaries and festivals, particularly Olympia (with its famous Olympic Games) and Delphi (with its equally celebrated Pythian oracle). Since religious celebration was the only formal public role allowed for women in ancient Greece, their experience of and contribution to the sacred life of the city-state and Panhellenic sanctuaries is a major theme of the course. Other themes include notions of the sacred, PanHellenism, boundaries (spatial, temporal, social, and gender), and self-identity (the community, family, and individual). REQUIRED TEXTS:
Plus reserve readings: Additional primaray sources and secondary works.
HISTORY 420. Modern Germany.
European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 001.Instructor(s): Ulrike WeckelPrerequisites & Distribution: No credit for those who have completed or are enrolled in Hist. 418 or 419. (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course will explore the period of postwar reconstruction in East and West Germany until the fall of the wall (1989) and unification (1990). One main focus will be the ways in which Germans on both sides of the wall came to terms with the Nazi-past: The twelve years of Nazi-dictatorship, which was initially built upon broad consent had led to world war, unimaginable crimes against humanity and 50 million dead. The Third Reich" could only have been stopped by unconditional military surrender, so therefore many German cities and huge parts of industry was destroyed in May 1945. In the aftermath of war and mass murder, it became imperative to explore the reorganization of politics, society, economics, culture, family- and gender relations in order to prevent a repetition. Were there any German traditions that could be revived or institutions that could be rebuilt? Did all Germans have to be re-educated, or should the Allies have been lenient with the politically incriminated in order to get foster support for the new political system? How did Germans in East and West view their own past? This course will analyze not only official policy towards war-criminals, retributions, and public memorial, but also cultural representations of the Nazi period in literature, theater and film and the perception of these works by the audience. We will cover the period of Allied occupation, the beginning and the dynamics of the Cold War, and the establishment of the two German states and their integration into the Eastern and Western blocs. We will also address the debates about whether the two Germanies went their own separate ways, or whether they developed in reaction to one another. How did the Student Revolt of the late 1960s and the rise of the New Left lead to a new policy towards East Germany and how did that change the relationships among people on both sides of the wall? We will also examine the emergence of an opposition in the GDR which finally led - supported by political development in Eastern Europe - to the fall of the wall.
HISTORY 431. History of the Balkans Since 1878.
European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 001.Instructor(s): John V Fine JrPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). Credits: (3; 2 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. 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.
HISTORY 450. Japan to 1700.
Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle EastSection 001.Instructor(s): Sidney DeVere BrownPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. A general introduction to the historical development of the Japanese people. Emphasis is given to the internal political, social, economic, and religious aspects of this development up to the end of the eighteenth century, when the Tokugawa hegemony was threatened by external forces.
HISTORY 461. The American Revolution.
U.S. HistorySection 001 Meets with History 461.005. (undergraduates only).Instructor(s): David J Hancock (hancockd@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (Excl). Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. An intensive course on the background to the Revolution, its progress, and the changes it wrought in American life. Emphasis on America's mid-18th-century socioeconomic transformation, Britain's reorganization of her empire in the 1760s and 1770s, colonial opposition, and the emergence of a uniquely American ideology. Subsequent topics include the progress and disclocations of the military conflict, the attempt at confederation, and the culmination of the Revolutionary movement in the iteration and early development of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
HISTORY 463. The Origins of the American Civil War, 1830-1860.
U.S. HistorySection 001.Instructor(s): J Mills Thornton III (jmthrntn@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course attempts to understand the causes of the American Civil War. It begins with a description of the society of the ante-bellum South; turns next to a portrait of Jacksonian politics and political ideology; then takes up that transmutation of Jacksonian ideals in the 1840's and 1850's through which hostile sectional stereotypes were defined. It culminates with an exploration of the sense in which the intellectual, social, religious, and economic conflicts in America came to be summarized by the slavery question during the period, because of the demands of political competition. There will be a midterm exam, a research paper of ten pages, and a two-hour final examination. Reading will average about 250 pages a week. Enrollment will be limited to forty students, in order to facilitate class discussion.
HISTORY 465. Emergence of the Modern United States, 1876-1901.
U.S. HistorySection 001 Modern US 1865-1901. Meets with American Culture 345.001.Instructor(s): Maria Montoya (mmontoya@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Greed, violence, excesses of wealth, extreme poverty, xenophobia, media spectacles, unstable gender roles, manhood under attack, uppity women, white supremacy on the rise, crimes of hatred and fear. Does this invoke the 1990s in your mind? Think again. These are all words that describe the end of the 19th century the Gilded Age. This course explores the period between the end of the Civil War and the dawn of the twentieth century by focusing on industrialization, territorial expansion, the rise of cities, new forms of sexual and racial classification and control, political transformations, work culture, and the emergence of mass consumer culture.
HISTORY 467. The United States Since 1933.
U.S. HistorySection 001 Meets with History 467.011. (Undergraduates only).Instructor(s): Thomas GuglielmoPrerequisites & Distribution: (4). (Excl). Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course will explore World War II changes,crises, and conflicts as they profoundly shaped postwar America during the Cold War 1950s, Civil War 1960s, and complex final decades of the twentieth century. We will focus on struggles over power and resources both abroad in places like Vietnam and at home along race, gender, and class lines. This course will be a mixture of lectures, discussions, film, music, and in-class group projects. Tentative Required Books: May, Elaine Tyler. Homeward Bound: American Families during the Cold War Era (Basic Books, 1988. McGirr, Lisa. Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (Princeton, 2001). Patterson, Thomas G. On Every Front: The Making and Unmaking of the Cold War (Norton, 1992). Payne, Charles M. I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle (California, 1995). Sugrue, Thomas J. Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton, 1996).
HISTORY 468. Topics in U.S. History.
U.S. HistorySection 001 U.S. Women, Work and Economics.Instructor(s): Rebecca J MeadPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This class addresses U.S. women's economic and labor history, including much of women's economic activity that is not acknowleged as "work" because it is unpaid. Topics include reproductive and social labor, pre-industrial economic activities, industrialization, gender segregation in labor markets, trade unionism, female entrepreneurship, economic restructuring, women and globalization.
HISTORY 468. Topics in U.S. History.
U.S. HistorySection 002 19Th CENTURY AFRICAN- AMERICAN HISTORY. Meets with CAAS 458.002.Instructor(s): Martha Jones (msjonz@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be repeated for credit.
Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. During the nineteenth century African American life underwent a sea-change. The founding of independent black political, religious and cultural institutions, the transition from slavery to freedom, the emergence of women into public life, and the political enfranchisement then disenfranchisement of black men were among the transformations that would mean that African-American life in 1900, at the century's end, was remarkably different from that of 1800. This course will explore the nature of these changes in four units: the creation of community in the antebellum North, the culture of enslaved people, the Black Civil War experience, and the century's final years with the rise of Jim Crow and the advent of the women's era. In addition to reading the work of historians, students will be asked to use maps, films, museum exhibits and nineteenth century newspapers to understand some of the forces that shaped the lives of black Americans. Students will be evaluated based upon contribution to class discussion andthe completion of research and writing projects. The cost of books and related materials will be between $50 and $100.
HISTORY 469. Precolonial Southeast Asia.
Section 001.Instructor(s): Victor B Lieberman (eurasia@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course examines select problems in the history of both mainland and island Southeast Asia from the start of the first milennium C.E. to the early 19th century, on the eve of colonial rule. Its focus is simultaneously political, cultural, and economic. It seeks to explain why, particularly on the mainland, localized political and economic systems coalesced with increasing speed and success, chiefly from the 15th century, and why similar integrative trends in the island world were less sustained. But at the same time it seeks to explore in open-ended fashion the relation between international and domestic economic stimuli, cultural importation and cultural creativity, institutional demands and patrimonial norms. Principal thematic topics include: Indianization, the rise of the classical states and their chief features, the collapse of the classical states, reintegration on the mainland, the age of commerce thesis, comparisons between Theravada, Neo-Confucian, the Muslim Southeast Asia, the early role of Europeans, the 18th century crises, Southeast Asia on the eve of colonial intervention.
HISTORY 475(580). The History of American Constitutional Law.
U.S. HistorySection 001.Instructor(s): Mills Thornton (jmthrntn@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course is a survey of the evolution of American constitutional law from 1789 to the present. It will rely primarily upon reading the selections from the opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court to be found in A.T. Mason and D.G. Stephenson, Jr., eds., American Constitutional Law, and Stanley Kutler, ed., The Supreme Court And The Constitution. The goal will be to discover how the different material circumstances and social and political assumptions of each age in American history have been reflected in the Supreme Court's shifting conceptions of the meaning of the Constitution. In this way, we will seek to define how beliefs about the essential character of American republicanism have been altered through time, and in addition, to appreciate the Supreme Court's changing understanding of its own role in the constitutional order. There are no prerequisites for the course, but History 160-161 or an equivalent understanding of the general structure of American history is assumed. There will be a midterm examination of ninety minutes, a ten-page term paper, and a two-hour final examination.
HISTORY 481. Topics in European History.
European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 001 The Caucasus Since the Fall of the Soviet Union.Instructor(s): Gerard J LibaridianPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course will focus on the role of ethnicity in the rise of conflicts in the Caucasus during the last century. It will examine militarized conflicts (such as in Nagorno Karabagh, Abkhazia, and Chechnya) as well as latent ones (such as Javakheti, Ajaria, and Daghestan). The evolution of ethnicity and nationalism will be studied in conjunction with the role of religion, class, Russian and Soviet nationalities policies, and more recently, of state-building in independent Armenia, Azerbaijjan, and Georgia.
HISTORY 481. Topics in European History.
European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 002 Histories of Art and Histories of Nations. Meets with History of Art 489.001.Instructor(s): Thomas C WillettePrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
HISTORY 486. Social History of Early Modern England.
European History from Ancient to Modern TimesSection 001.Instructor(s): Michael P Macdonald (mmacdon@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Hist. 220 and junior standing are recommended. (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course surveys the social history of England from the later Middle Ages until the Industrial Revolution. Its principal concern is with the course of social change and its effects on the behavior and attitudes of men and women of all social classes. It will explain how population rise, inflation and the Reformation led to increasing social and cultural polarization, and also examine institutions that experienced comparatively little change, such as the family, and explore why. A great deal of attention will be given to the fundamental social hierarchies of the period status, gender, and age so that the values of the period are understandable. The political events that affected social relations, most notably the English Revolution of 1640-1660, will be discussed.
HISTORY 498. Topics in History.
Other History CoursesSection 001 Cities and History. Meets with Institute for the Humanities 511.001.Instructor(s): Rudolf Mrázek (rdlf@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Modern metropolises have been the scenes of nation-state, news-making history. Yet, little is known about the ways the metropolises make history: by their structure and functioning; by their barricades and by the ways in which they are livable; by the broadness, smoothness or roughness of their streets; and even by how much light their windows let in, by their squares, public and apartment buildings, monuments, sewage systems, and theaters. Metropolises are agents of history. The course will examine this thesis. Each of the five segments of the course will focus on a different metropolis and national history, and will entail the reading and discussion of one scholarly and one literary text. We will draw on a number of disciplines, including history, architecture and urban planning, anthropology, and literary criticism, but our emphasis will be on intense and sensitive reading, within and beyond the disciplines. The five modern cities we will study (subject to change depending on the inclination of the students) are: Paris (focus will be on the 1860s and 1870s, but reading and discussion will go beyond), Prague (of around the 1910s and beyond), Berlin (the 1920s and 1930s and more), New York (the 1950s in particular), and Jakarta (especially the 1960s through 1990s). The course will be open to the higher-level undergraduates and graduates in history, architecture and urban planning, anthropology, and literary criticism. People beyond any of these disciplines are very welcome as well. The requirement for the completion of the course is active and intense reading, presence at discussions, and a final paper of original research into "city and history" of about 25 pages. The course is designed for 6 to 12 students. There will be frequent individual meetings with the instructor.
HISTORY 498. Topics in History.
Other History CoursesSection 002 Nonviolent Political Movements.Instructor(s): Stewart N Gordon (sngordon@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be repeated for credit.
Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. We open with a brief survey of the historical roots of non-violence Quakers and Shakers, Transcendentalists and Suffragettes, Buddhists and Jains, and Gandhi. Wider themes include moral community, public space, non-violence and coercion, and definitions of success and failure. Most of the course involves students (in groups) closely analyzing non-violent movements, such as those against Hitler, plus Solidarity, the Civil Rights movement, anti-nuclear, anti-war, and environmental movements in various countries.
HISTORY 498. Topics in History.
Other History CoursesSection 003 Imperialism&PacificIslands19C. Meets with American Culture 496.005.Instructor(s): Damon SalesaPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Lab Fee: Laboratory fee required. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
HISTORY 498. Topics in History.
Other History CoursesSection 004 Steam Engines and Computers: From Industrial Proletarians to Information Workers. Meets with Sociology 495.001 and RC Social Science 360.003.Instructor(s): Thomas W O'DonnellPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. See RC Social Science 360.003.
HISTORY 572 / CAAS 533 / AMCULT 533. Black Civil Rights from 1900.
U.S. HistorySection 001 The Origins of Black StudiesInstructor(s): Kevin Gaines (gainesk@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: CAAS 201 recommended. (3). (Excl).
Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
HISTORY 590. History Topics Mini-course.Section 001.Instructor(s):Prerequisites & Distribution: (1-2). (Excl). Mini/Short course Credits: (1-2). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. No Description Provided Check Times, Location, and Availability This page was created at 7:16 PM on Mon, Jan 21, 2002.
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