History at OSU: Autumn 2009 Courses

Course Description Booklet Autumn Quarter, 2009

The Department of History, The Ohio State University
Undergraduate History Office, 110 Dulles Hall, 292-6793

The Department of History has compiled information in this booklet to assist students in selecting courses for Autumn Quarter, 2009. The descriptions are accurate as of April 17, 2009. Please be aware that changes may be made.

A printed version of the coursebook is also available in the History office, 106 Dulles Hall.

AFRICAN HISTORY

HISTORY 121 AFRICAN CIVILIZATIONS TO 1870
5 Cr. Hrs.

This course surveys the history of pre-modern African civilization with a focus on specific episodes in the continents political, economic and cultural developments. We will explore some of the internal and external factors that account for the rise and decline of various African empires and states as well as the impediments the continent encountered in the course of its economic, political and cultural developments prior to formal colonial domination.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
2:30-4:18 MW

HISTORY 122 AFRICAN CIVILIZATIONS 1870 TO THE PRESENT
5 Cr. Hrs.

This is the second of two courses in a series intended to provide an introduction to the emergence and growth of African civilizations. The approach will be to foster an appreciation of the complexities of civilizations in Africa, an extremely large continent, as well as to highlight the main areas of Africas contribution to human advancement.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
1:30-2:48 MW
1:30; 2:30 Tor R (recitations)

HISTORY 350 HISTORY OF MODERN AFRICA
5 Cr. Hrs.

Focusing on the history of sub-Saharan Africa from 1945 to the present, this course will examine the emergence of modern Africa and the challenges of building viable nation states. Using an interdisciplinary approach and a variety of teaching materials, we will explore significant episodes and events in African history from the turn of the twentieth-century to the present that help to explain the historical roots of Africas current economic, social and political situations. Our discussion will be guided by the following theme: Africa, the struggle of a continent for political identity and economic stability. Following this theme, we will begin with European colonialism and subsequent emergence of modern nation states, and then proceed to assess the historical contexts of Africas putative economic stagnation and persistent political instability. While recognizing the challenges facing Africa, we cannot neglect the continents success stories. We will therefore pay close attention to areas where the continent has made and is still making significant progress. The final two weeks of the quarter will be dedicated to exploring the impact of African Diaspora culture on modern Africa.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
1:30-3:18 TR Kobo, O.

Assignments:
Assignments will include a map quiz, midterm and final examinations, and 5 short reaction papers (two-three pages each). The reaction papers will require students to summarize and comment on some specific reading assignments.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Group A, post-1750.

HISTORY 742 AFRICAN HISTORIOGRAPHY AND METHODOLOGY
5 Cr Hrs.

The writing of African history has remained a complex and challenging endeavor for historians. This seminar will explore various sources and methodological approaches for constructing or reconstructing pre-colonial, colonial and post-independent African histories, in order to provide students with the critical tools for their own research and for teaching undergraduate African history courses. We will examine the techniques for collecting and using oral traditions with specific emphasis on the contexts within which oral traditions were composed and preserved. We will then proceed to analyze primary sources (mostly pre-colonial manuscripts in English or foreign languages but translated into English), with the intention of critiquing outsiders conception of pre-modern African history. These primary sources will also include newspapers, popular cartoon images and maps. We will also briefly examine archeological and linguistic sources. By the end of the quarter, students will acquire the techniques for critiquing various historical sources, as well as some skills for collecting archival materials and conducting interviews. Reading materials and assignments are designed to help students acquire the skills for writing micro, regional, and comparative histories. The seminar will focus on sub-Saharan Africa, and for that reason only case studies from sub-Saharan Africa will be considered.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
3:30-6:18 W Kobo

Assigned Readings:
To be decided but may include a course reader.

Assignments:
Assignments will include a book review, two-page reports from week two through week eight and a fifteen-page research paper on methodology.
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AMERICAN HISTORY

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HISTORY 151 AMERICAN CIVILIZATIONS, 1607-1877
5 Cr. Hrs.

This course surveys the political, constitutional, social, and economic development of the U.S. from the Colonial Period through the Era of Reconstruction. This course, in conjunction with HIS 152, furnishes one of the sequence requirements for the LAR and GEC. Not open to students with credit for History 150.01.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
8:30-10:18 MW
*8:30-9:48 TR
*11:30-12:48 TR Roth
1:30-3:18 MW
3:30-5:18 MW
5:30-7:18 MW
5:30-7:18 TR
*Students signing up for this section must also sign up for a recitation section.

HISTORY HONORS 151 AMERICAN CIVILIZATIONS 1607 - 1877
5 Cr. Hrs.

This course provides a survey of American history from the Age of Encounter to the Reconstruction period. It covers the social, economic, cultural, political, and diplomatic history of the American peoples. We will discuss the experiences of famous people, such as Presidents, diplomats, and generals, as well as the experiences of ordinary people in all regions of the country.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
8:30-10:18 MW Cashin

Assigned Readings: (in the past included):
G. Nash, et al., The American People, Vol. I, but because this is an honors section we will also read three monographs on American history.

Assignments:
We will set aside class time to discuss the monographs, and all students are strongly encouraged to take part in discussion. The class will also write short (one to two page) papers each week on aspects of that weeks lecture material.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Regular attendance is highly encouraged.

HISTORY 152 AMERICAN CIVILIZATIONS SINCE 1877
5 Cr. Hrs.

This course surveys the political, constitutional, social, and economic development of the U.S. from the Era of Reconstruction to the present. This course, in conjunction with HIS 151, furnishes one of the sequence requirements for the LAR and GEC. Not open to students with credit for History 150.02 or History 150.03.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
8:30-10:18 TR
*10:30-11:48 TR Hartmann
*11:30 MWF
*1:30 MWF
2:30-4:18 MW
3:30-5:18 TR
5:30-7:18 MW
5:30-7:18 TR
*Students signing up for this section must also sign up for a recitation section.

HISTORY HONORS 152 AMERICAN CIVILIZATIONS SINCE 1877
5 Cr. Hrs.

History 152H is an honors-level introduction to American civilization from the end of the Reconstruction period to the recent past. The course examines how Americans have experienced economic growth and decline, institutional expansion, technological developments, cultural and demographic shifts, and public policy trends since 1877. Topics include industrialization; immigration and migration; urbanization and suburbanization; womens suffrage and political movements; labor and business; and civil rights.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
9:30-11:18 TR Fernandez

Assignments:
Midterm, final exam, and short papers/presentations

Prerequisites or Special Comments
Open to Honors students. Fulfills the Historical Survey requirement of the GEC.

HISTORY 323.01 AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE AGE OF SLAVERY
5 Cr Hr.s

This course provides a comprehensive assessment of African American history from its African origins until the end of the Civil War in 1865. In order to accomplish this task, a wide variety of pedagogical and methodological approaches will be utilized. Students will be exposed not only to narrative based examinations of black history, but also cartographical resources, such as maps, audiovisual, and internet based materials on various aspects of this experience. Methodologically, a significant portion of the course will involve learning the craft of the historian. Students will be asked to analyze primary documents and draw their own conclusions regarding the past. We will also look at historical interpretations, analyze evidence and sources, and develop critical and analytical skills in assessing the meaning of the African American past. Students will be exposed to new interpretations and approaches regarding the topic. As a result of this experience, one will not only enhance their knowledge, but also deepen their historical skills and understanding.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
9:30-11:18 MW Hall

Assigned Readings:
Robin Kelley & Earl Lewis, To Make the World Anew: A History of African Americans
Jonathan Earle, The Routledge Atlas of African American History
Thomas C. Holt & Elsa B. Brown, eds., Major Problems in African American History,
Volume I: From Slavery to Freedom.
Peter Hinks, ed., David Walkers Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World.

Assignments:
All students are required to attend class on a regular basis. In order to makeup missed assignments, students must provide official documentation within one week of the absence, and arrange to complete all missed work. It is the responsibility of the student to officially enroll in the class no later than the second week of classes. Requests to add the course will not be honored after this time. Students should also retain copies of all submitted work. Students are required to take a midterm and a final exam. The midterm will consist of identifications and an essay, and the final exam will consist of two essays. In addition to the midterm and final, students will submit a 3-4 page typed Perceptions of African American History paper. This paper is a formal academic essay which should discuss your previous experience with the discipline in high school and college as well as its relationship to your understanding of American history. Papers should include an introduction and a thesis, a body, and conclusion. Papers will be graded on thoughtfulness, intellectual rigor, content, and grammar. You will also have primary source assignments and a book review of David Walkers Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World. Instructions for these assignments will be distributed at the end of the first full week of class.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Groups A & B, pre & post-1750.

HISTORY 324 INTRODUCTION TO U.S. LATINA/O HISTORY
5 Cr. Hrs.

This course provides a general survey of U.S. Latina/o History. It aims to place Latina/o populations currently residing in the United States within historical context beginning with Spanish colonialism and conquest of the present-day Southwestern United States through more contemporary issues. Themes and topics include conquest and colonization, immigration, labor activism and unionization, politics, education, popular culture, and social movements. The course engages Latina/o histories across national origin groupsMexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans, Central Americans, and South Americansand across the country, from the Southwest, Midwest, and Eastern United States.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
1:30-3:18 TR Fernandez

Assigned Readings:
Readings may include:
Juan Gonzlez, Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America (New York: Viking Press, 2000)
Vicki L. Ruiz, and John R. Chvez, eds. Memories and Migrations: Mapping Boricua & Chicana Histories (Urbana: University of Illinois, 2008)
Reading Packet

Assignments:
One Essay, Campus/Community Event Summaries, Midterm Exam, Final Project/Paper

Prerequisites or Special Comments
Fulfills Group B (United States); Post-1750

HISTORY HONORS 325 INTRODUCTION TO WOMENS HISTORY: THE AMERICAN
5 Cr. Hrs. EXPERIENCE

Designed for honors students, this course offers an introduction to the study of womens and gender history by examining key individuals, groups, ideas, institutions, and developments in United States history from the perspectives of women. We will read what historians and other scholars have written about women in the past; and we will analyze historians sources in the form of documents and images, listening to womens own voices and those of their contemporaries. We will focus on three kinds of changes: in womens work and the sexual division of labor; in relationships between gender and politics; and in womens family roles and sexuality. We will pay particular attention to differences among women in such areas as race and ethnicity, class, religion, sexuality and marital status, and the like.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
12:30-2:18 TR Hartmann

Assigned Readings:
We will use the second edition of Ellen Carol DuBois and Lynn Dumenil, Through Womens Eyes: An American History with Documents (Bedford/St. Martins Press). Three additional, much shorter, books -- or the equivalent in articles -- will be assigned.

Assignments:
This class will be organized as a seminar so students are expected to have completed the assigned reading and to participate in class discussions at every class meeting. Each student will lead one of the class discussions. Students will also write two short papers and a 10-page research paper.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Honors standing or permission of the instructor. Group B, post-1750.

HISTORY 557.02 JEFFERSON & JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY, 1800-1845
5 Cr. Hrs.

This course examines the conflicting forces at work within American society from the end of the revolutionary era to the sectional crisis that led to the American Civil War. Our central themes and questions are the legacy of the first national revolution for a new nation, the emergence of a new political and economic order, the transformation of private life in a rapidly modernizing society, the significance of regional patterns of culture, race, economy, and society, and the long-term causes of the Civil War, the nation's most profound constitutional crisis.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
1:30-3:18 TR Brooke, J.

Assigned Readings [tentative list]:
Wilentz, ed., Major Problems in the Early Republic, 1787-1848
Watson, Liberty and Power
Levine, Half Slave and Half Free
Wallace, The Long, Bitter Trail
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (David Blight, ed.)
Altschuler and Saltzgaber, Revivalism, Social Conscience, and Community in the Burned-Over District: The Trial of Rhoda Bement

Assignments:
class attendance and participation in discussions;
in-class quiz (IDs, short essay) (25%);
two take-home essays, five typed pages each, (30%);
final exam (IDs, two cumulative essays) (45%).

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Group B, post-1750.

HISTORY 566 THE CONTEMPORARY US SINCE 1963
5 Cr. Hrs.

This course tracks the major developments in the United States in the more than 50 years since World War II. Because the United States emerged from the war as a world power, inevitably this course also looks beyond the borders of the United States. Our topics will include the rights revolution and its impact on American society, culture, law, and politics (including the African-American civil rights movement, feminism, and rights claims concerning everything from abortion to environmental policies); the Cold War (including the hot wars in Korea and Vietnam) and its end; the rise of conservative ideas and a conservative movement; and changes in the economy and population (particularly
immigration). Our point will be to understand the connections among these important trends and events.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
9:30-11:18 MW Baker

Assigned Readings:
Books to be determined (feel free to email me later to get a jump on buying texts). We will read a mix of documents and books and articles by historians.

Assignments:
Two quizzes, midterm, final, one paper that requires research in sources outside of the class reading.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
There are no formal prerequisites but History 152 is strongly recommended.
Group B, post-1750.

HISTORY 579.01 AMERICAN CULTURAL AND INTELLECTUAL HISTORY, 1789-1900
5 Cr. Hrs.

This course will examine major currents in American thought and culture from the beginning of the Republic until the turn of the 20th century. Topics to be considered included: visions for the new nation; the search for an American culture in literature and painting; Darwinism and Social Darwinism; Pragmatism.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
10:30-12:18 MW Conn

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Group B, post-1750.

HSTORY 770 STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY
5 Cr. Hrs.

The purpose of this course is to teach graduate students the literature on recent U.S. foreign relations and the major schools of thought and interpretive approaches in the field.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
2:30-4:18 Thursday McMahon

Assigned Readings:
Each student will be assigned to read and report on approximately ten books and an additional number of articles, drawn from a common reading list.

Assignments:
Six to eight 5-page papers, in addition to active participation in class discussions.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Graduate students only.

HISTORY 772 STUDIES IN RECENT U.S. HISTORY
5 Cr. Hrs.

The course is designed to serve History Graduate Students studying for General Examinations in Modern U.S. History (either Major or Minor fields) and Graduate Students in other departments who desire to develop knowledge of Modern U.S. history.

This version of the course will cover the years 1877 to 1945. It will focus on political economy, social, intellectual, and cultural history topics. Chronological divisions include Populism, Progressivism, World War I, the 1920s, the Great Depression, and World War II. For the most part, our readings will be confined to domestic history, although given the time period, we will not avoid foreign relations entirely. I select the readings to include a mixture of classics (e.g., Woodward, Hofstadter, Wiebe) and new works (e.g., Ayers, Kennedy, Brinkley), which informs the students about the rich complexity of Modern U.S. historiography.
Students will develop substantial reading notes for general examinations in Modern America, as well as an appreciation for the rich sources and themes in need of further research in twentieth century U.S. history. Faculty in Modern U.S. offer other specialized graduate courses covering diplomatic and military history, international relations, African American, women, and ethnic history, and consumer culture, courses that should be taken along with this course and its post-1945 version to develop a sound comprehension of Modern U.S. history.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
2:30-4:18 WChilds

Assigned Readings:
1. Four-to-six core books, available in paperback.
2. Various historiographical essays (available electronically).
3. Two pairs of books (available through OSU Library).

Assignments:
(1) Two oral/written reports on the two pairs of books. These reports will be copied for all members of the colloquium. Thus, if there are 10 students in the course, each student will have reviews of 40 books by the end of the quarter.
(2) A four-to-six-page review of one of the core books (along the lines of a review in Reviews in American History).
(3) A final essay of from 12-to-15 pages; focus/substance to be determined in consultation with the instructor.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: This course is for Graduate Students only.

HISTORY 871.01 SEMINAR IN AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC HISTORY
5 Cr. Hrs.

The first half of a two-quarter research seminar for graduate students, this course will provide an opportunity to research and write an article-length essay or dissertation chapter(s) based on research in primary sources.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
1:30-3:18 M Hahn

Assigned Readings:
Critical peer readings of papers and other materials produced by fellow students.

Assignments:
During autumn quarter, students will prepare and present bibliographies and prospectuses. Formal papers must be written and revised during winter quarter.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Graduate standing. Only students who complete both halves of the two-quarter sequence will earn a grade for the class.
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ANCIENT HISTORY

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HISTORY 501.01 HISTORY OF ARCHAIC GREECE
5 Cr. Hrs.

This is the first half of a two-course sequence that surveys the history of ancient Greece (the second half will be offered in Winter 2010). The course examines the formative period of Greek civilization, from the Neolithic era (ca. 7000-3000 BC) all the way down to the year 480 BC. Our primary focus will be on the period's major political developments: the rise and mysterious demise of the Mycenean kingdoms of the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1600-1100 BC); the subsequent emergence of small, village-based chiefdoms and, later, the first city-states in the Dark Age (ca. 100-700 BC); the creation of written laws, political institutions, and, ultimately, the world's first citizen-states in the Archaic Age (ca. 700-480 BC); and the momentous wars against the Persian empire in the early fifth century. Along the way, we will also explore various social and cultural phenomena associated with these political developments. Here, particular attention will be paid to the many innovations of the Archaic Age in art, architecture, sports, literature, and philosophy, as well as to broader social issues, such as the place of women and slaves in Greek society.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
11:30-1:18 MW Anderson

Assignments:
2 exams and term paper

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Group B, pre-1750.

HISTORY 505D01THE EARLY BYZANTINE EMPIRE
5 Cr. Hrs.

Notice: This course will be offered entirely on the Online: there will be no class meetings and all exams and other assignments will be done through the Internet. There will be no need for you to come to campus for this class and you can be in any part of the world and still participate in it. Students will follow the normal reading schedule and do all the assignments associated with the course, but there will be no class meeting and students need not ever come to class.

In addition, enrollment in the class will be strictly limited to 25 students.

All assignments will be submitted over the Internet, using Carmen, the Universitys online course software. Students who wish to enroll in this course must be reasonably comfortable working with computers. Full details on accessing the course will be sent a few weeks before the beginning of classed to those who enroll, via regular mail to their home addresses and e-mail to their OSU address.

The course is designed as an introduction to early Byzantine civilization and history, A.D. 330-843 (from the founding of Constantinople to the end of the Iconoclast Controversy). In it we will trace the transformation of the ancient world and the emergence of a distinctly medieval Byzantine civilization. We will observe the growth and triumph of Christianity and its transformation into a world religion. We will examine critically the myths concerning the "fall of the Roman empire" and the typical evaluation of Byzantium. We will attempt to understand Byzantine civilization through the eyes of the Byzantines themselves, examining their values and comparing them with those of our own. In this regard, we will seek to gain insight into the religious sensitivities of the Byzantines and how Byzantine Christianity expressed important transcendent ideas. We will also investigate relations between Byzantium and its neighbors and pay special attention to the military developments that influenced the course of history in this crucial period. The Byzantine Empire represents a fascinating, although little-known chapter in the history of mankind. This course is designed to explore some aspects of that civilization and to expose you to challenging new ideas.
Assigned Readings:

The following books are required (both will be available at all OSU area bookstores and elsewhere):

Timothy E. Gregory, A History of Byzantium (Oxford: Blackwells 2005) ISBN: 0631235132
Procopius, Secret History, G.A. Williamson, trans. (NY: Viking 1982) ISBN: 0140441824

Assignments:
Intense (graded) weekly discussion is required (20% of the grade) and a choice of other assignments including quizzes, short papers, a mid-term exam, and final exam; you will be able to choose which of these assignments you wish to submit for your final grade, but all students are required to participate in the discussion, which is conducted using a discussion board built into the course.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
The course is especially appropriate for anyone interested in ancient and/or medieval history and for those who want to understand better the course of current affairs in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, since many of these have their roots in the Byzantine period.

For further information, contact Professor Gregory: gregory.4@osu.edu

HISTORY 808.01 Research Seminar in Ancient History
5 Cr. Hrs.

The Production of Social Order in Classical Athens

The course examines the politeia of classical Athens, its distinctive "social order" or "way of life." Conventional treatments of the subject tend to fixate upon "the political," seeing Athenian social life and cultural production as shaped and determined ultimately by the imperatives of "democracy," "democratic ideology," or "civic identity." This course adopts a different perspective, viewing the politeia instead as a dynamic, ongoing response to the altogether more urgent, more fundamental imperative of securing for the polis the conditions of its very existence. It considers how characteristic Athenian political, military, economic, ritual, and other practices might have contributed in different ways to the achievement of this larger objective. In so doing, it seeks to recover the deeper logics and the principles that both informed and connected these various practices. Ultimately, it views these mechanisms as answers to one very general question: how could a relatively large, class-divided population of "free" agents be encouraged to act in ways that optimized the health, wealth, and security of the community as a whole?

Time Meeting Days Instructor
3:30-5:18 W Anderson

Assignments: Research paper, due at end of Winter 2010 (808.02)
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ASIAN & ISLAMIC HISTORY

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HISTORY 141 HISTORY OF EAST ASIA IN THE PRE-MODERN ERA
5 Cr. Hrs.

History of East Asia in the Pre-modern Era is an introduction to the societies and cultures of pre-modern China, Korea, and Japan, the countries that make up the geographical and cultural unit of East Asia. Of the great civilizations of the world, East Asia grew up in perhaps the greatest isolation from the West; and one goal of this course is to point up what is distinctive about "East Asian civilization." A second goal is the study of the relationship between the evolution of China, Korea, and Japan as distinct cultures themselves. The course ends with a comparison of China, Korea, and Japan in their encounters with the West at the end of the pre-modern era.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
3:30-5:18 TR

HISTORY 727 STUDIES IN ISLAMIC HISTORY
5 Cr. Hrs.

This course will explore selected topics in the history of the Middle East since 1800. The exact topics are under review, and interested students are urged to communicate with the instructor to discuss topics of interest (findley.1@osu.edu).

Time Meeting Days Instructor
3:30-5:18 W Findley

Assigned Readings:
Readings from the modern scholarly literature will mostly be individualized assignments based on the course bibliography. In some weeks, there may be common assignments, which everyone in the class will be asked to read.

Assignments:
Most likely a combination of weekly short papers, a longer term paper, and an in-class oral presentation based on the term paper.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This type of course is intended for graduate students preparing fields in Islamic history for their Ph.D. qualifying examinations. Other students with analogous needs and preparation may also be admitted and should kindly contact the instructor at findley.1@osu.edu.

EUROPEAN HISTORY

HISTORY 111 WESTERN CIVILIZATION FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE 17TH CENTURY
5 Cr. Hrs.

This course surveys the Ancient Civilizations (Near East, Greece, Rome), the Barbarian Invasions, Medieval Civilizations (Byzantium, Islam, Europe), the Renaissance, and the Reformation. A central text focuses on the course and each instructor supplements the text with several other readings. This course, in conjunction with HIS 112, furnishes one of the sequence requirements for the LAR and GEC. It is not open to students with credit for 100.01.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
8:30-10:18 MW
*9:30 MWF Hobbins
*10:30-11:48TR Cressy.
2:30-4:18 MW
3:30-5:18 MW
5:30-7:18 MW
5:30-7:18 TR
*Students signing up for this section must sign up for a recitation section.

HISTORY 112 WESTERN CIVILIZATION FROM THE 17TH CENTURY TO MODERN
5 Cr. Hrs. TIMES

This course surveys the political, scientific, and industrial revolutions; the rise of nationalism and the decline of empires; the two world wars and the cold war. A central text focuses the course and each instructor supplements the text with other readings. This course, in conjunction with HIS 111, furnishes one of the sequence requirements for the LAR and GEC. It is not open to students with credit for 100.02 or 100.03.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
8:30-10:18 TR
*10:30 MWF Breyfogle, N.
*2:30-:4:18 MWF Otter
3:30-5:18 TR
5:30-7:18 MW
5:30-7:18 TR
*Students signing up for this section, must sign up for a recitation section.

HISTORY 333 HISTORY OF ANTISEMITISM
5 Cr. Hrs.

What is antisemitism? Is it something particularly modern? This course attempts to answer these and other questions. The course begins in the ancient world. It considers the Christian and pagan roots of antisemitism and investigates a number of key historical periods during the medieval period when different groups voiced hatred toward the Jews.
Much of the course studies the development of modern anti-Semitism in Germany, England, France, Latin America, and the United States. Topics include the politicization of antisemitism by the left and the right, the social dimensions of antisemitism, the role of antisemitism in socioeconomic conflicts, the development of racial antisemitism, and cultural concerns over Jewish difference. The course pays attention to how different groups of Jews have responded to antisemitism over time, and it concludes with an investigation of the development of new strands of anti-Jewish thought, imagery, and action after World War II.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
12:30-2:18 MW Judd

Assigned Readings (tentative):
Richard S. Levy, Antisemitism in the Modern World
Helmut Walser Smith, A Butchers Tale
Jacob Wassermann, My Life as German and Jew
Mary Lefkowitz, History Lessons

Assignments (tentative): short paper; midterm exam, and final exam.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Group B, post-1750.

History 508.03 Medieval England
5 Cr. Hrs.

The usual title of this course is Knights, Peasants, and Bandits in Medieval England, It explores the ways that the ordinary people and some not so ordinary people coped with the major historical events that occurred in England from the Norman conquest to the Tudor dynasty. We will look at what happened to the Anglo-Saxon population during the conquest, the life of the serf and free peasant, and how this changed over the centuries, the growth of towns and the bourgeoisie, the rewards and problems of being a member of the nobility. In trying to keep up with historical change, all classes of society resorted to manipulation of the economy and the law. They also were not slow to use brute force and crime to achieve their ends. They formed mutual aid societies and relied heavily on family and neighbors as well. The course is a practical guide on how to survive the Middle Ages. It is also a guide to touring England in the 21st century in order to appreciate medieval sites.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
5:30-7:18 MW Hanawalt

Assigned Readings:
C. Warren Hollister, Robert C. Stacey, Robin Chapman Stacey, The Making of Medieval England to 1399
Joseph Gies and Frances Gies, Life in a Medieval Castle
Barbara Hanawalt, The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, trans. Joseph Glaser

Assignments:
There are one midterm taken in class, one paper, and a final. The midterm and final test are essay examinations.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Group B, pre-1750.

HISTORY 511 THE REFORMATION
5 Cr. Hrs.

The Protestant and Catholic Reformations were major movements in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Europe with far-reaching effects still felt today. Religious arguments interacted with political concerns, economic fluctuations, and social turmoil to transform European states and societies. In 1500, religion held a central and relatively unquestioned place in the lives of Europeans, and the idea of a unified European Christendom, though imperfect, could still be defended. By the beginning of the seventeenth century, while Europeans as a group still believed in God, the influence of the Church and of Christianity more generally had begun to change. During the course of the semester, we will examine the religious ideas and arguments that burgeoned in the sixteenth century, the social and political contexts in which they developed, and the transformations in thought, government, and society that resulted.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
1:30-3:18 MW Spierling

Assigned Readings (still tentative):
James Tracy, Europes Reformations, 14501650
Scott Hendrix, Recultivating the Vineyard
Lee Palmer Wandel, Voracious Idols and Violent Hands
Jeanne de Jussie, The Short Chronicle, ed. Carrie Klaus
Francisca de los Apostoles, The Inquisition of Francisca
Primary sources and journal articles available online

Assignments
Assignments will include 2 exams (midterm and final), written responses to some weekly reading assignments, and a critical essay on some aspect of the assigned readings. Regular attendance and participation in class discussion will also be integral to your final grade.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Group B, pre-1750.

HISTORY 537.01 IMPERIAL RUSSIA, 1700-1917
5 Cr. Hrs.

In this course, we will study fundamental events and changes in Russian politics, economics, intellectual thought, artistic life, culture, and society from the reign of Peter the Great to the February and October Revolutions of 1917. We will strive to understand how Russians lived and gave meaning to their lives during these years. Russia was an eclectic place in these two ands a half centuries: creative and destructive Tsars who ruled with absolute power; peasants in bark sandals who waded every spring through knee-deep mud and struggled every fall to bring in the harvest; bomb-throwing anarchists; a multi-ethnic empire which grew during these years to stretch from the German lands in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east (and even into North America), an empire that included peoples from a vast collection of different cultures, religious beliefs and ways of life (and an empire that only came apart with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991); millions of Russian peasants who left their homes to move into Moscow, St. Petersburg, and other cities forming Russias working class; revolutions and rebellions; and, at the turn of the century, arguably Europes most brilliant intellectual and artistic life, ranging from Stanislavskys theatre and Nijinskys dancing to the Avant Garde art of Liubov Popova, Natalia Goncharova, and Kazimir Malevich.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
12:00-1:18 MWF Breyfogle

Assigned Readings:
(This list is tentative and the specific books may change)
Walter Moss, A History of Russia, vol. 1 [Textbook]
The Memoirs of Princess Dashkova: Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great.
Dmitrii Rostislavov (Alexander Martin, ed.), Provincial Russia in the Age of Enlightenment: The Memoir of a Priests Son.
Nikolai Gogol, The Inspector General
Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons.
Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murat
Olga Semyonova Tian-Shanskaia, Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia.
Anton Chekhov,The Cherry Orchard
Kurban Said, Ali and Nino. Anchor Books.
Ansky, The Enemy at his Pleasure

Assignments:
This course requires a considerable amount of reading and writing. Two take-home midterm exams, take-home final exam, various quizzes, and in-class discussion and activities.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
History 112 or History 336, 538 very helpful. Group B, post-1750.

HISTORY 706.01 MEDIEVAL HISTORY

ROYAL ENTRIES AND CIVIC CEREMONIAL

The course will examine one of the major, but overlooked aspects of medieval power. The entries and civic ceremonial went beyond shows and entertainment and were instead full of the symbols of dominance that went with the kings and civic officials. Coronations, marriages, birth of a first son, major victories were all celebrated with elaborate ceremonies that reminded citizens of the legitimacy of their monarchs and their power over enemies. A royal entrance was also a way to underscore the victory of a king or noble over rebellious cities. For civic officials, the ceremonies either marked a new election of the assertion of supremacy over potentially rebellious citizens. All the ceremonies harkened back to the powerful symbols of “time immemorial” to add legitimacy.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
1:30-3:30 Tuesday Hanawalt

HISTORY 713 COLLOQUIUM IN EARLY MODERN STUDIES
5 Cr. Hrs.

Directed this year by David Cressy, the Department of Historys Early Modern Seminar meets in autumn and spring quarters 2009-2010 to explore the work-in-progress of local early modern scholars. The seminar meets on indicated Wednesdays at 3.30pm in Dulles 168, unless otherwise noted. Materials will normally be available in advance. All graduate students and interested scholars from all areas are invited to attend. Everybody is welcome, but the first thirty minutes of questions and discussion are reserved for graduate students. Those enrolled for credit will write brief critiques and historiographical appraisals of each presentation. Whenever possible there will be a reception for the speaker, to which all are invited, and dinner (by arrangement, at your own expense).

Time Meeting Days Instructor
3:30-5:18 W Cressy, D.

Grade: All registered members of the seminar received an interim P grade at the end of Fall Quarter (713A); a letter grade for the work of the whole course will be awarded at the end of Spring Quarter (713B) apparently the only way to assign a single grade for a 5-hour credit spread over two quarters

Draft program:
Autumn 2009
Geoffrey Parker on memoirs and advice for Ph.D. candidates
John Brooke, Climate, Demography, Economy, and Polity in the Late-Medieval Early Modern World 1350-1700
Daniel Hobbins on the French humanist Bernard Andre at the early Tudor court
Karen Spierling on Catholics and Protestants in Reformation-era Geneva
Dale van Kley on the origins of the French Revolution
Spring 2010
Alan Gallay on Sir Walter Raleigh and the Atlantic world
David Cressy on saltpeter, security, and the early modern English state
Bob Davis on something Mediterranean
Matt Goldish on responsa on early modern Jewish life

HISTORY 731 EUROPE FROM 1914 ON: COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS

This graduate readings course will focus principally on modern European expansion overseas, and the many different kinds of colonial encounters that this expansion could produce.Â The readings are designed to introduce students, first, to the latest thinking about empires as a global phenomenon, and, second, to a limited selection of different methodological approaches to the history of colonialism. This course will provide excellent background to those of you currently teaching, or intending to teach, World History. Course requirements include completing all assigned readings, and two review essays (or a single longer essay).Â

Readings (to be supplemented by articles):

Stephen Howe,Â Empire: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2002)
John Darwin, After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire since 1405 (Bloomsbury Press, 2008)
Harry Liebersohn, The Travelers' World: Europe to the Pacific (Harvard, 2008)Â Â Â Â Â
Jennifer Pitts, A Turn to Empire: The Rise of Liberal Imperialism in Britain and
France (Princeton, 2005)
Thomas Metcalf, Imperial Connections: India in the Indian Ocean Arena, 1860-1920 (California, 2008)
Ann Laura Stoler, Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (Duke, 2002)
Isabel Hull, Absolute Destruction:Â Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany (Cornell, 2006)
Priya Satia , Spies in Arabia; The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain's Covert Empire in the Middle East (OUP, 2008).
Mark Mazower, No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations: (Princeton, 2009)

Time Meeting Days Instructor
1:30-3:18 Wed Conklin

HISTORY 740 STUDIES IN RUSSIAN & SOVIET HISTORY
5 Cr. Hrs.

This course is a graduate colloquium on selected topics in Soviet history. The purpose of the course is to introduce students to the most influential works and approaches in the field. Each week we will discuss a major book on Soviet history with attention both to the historical events discussed and the historiographical approach utilized by the author. Topics covered will include the Russian Revolution, Marxist ideology, Soviet culture, sex and gender roles in Soviet society, Stalinist industrialization, the postwar era, nationalities in the Soviet system, and the legacy of the past for Russia today.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
1:30-3:18 Thursday Hoffmann

Assignments:
Students will be expected to complete all readings and participate in weekly discussions. Class participation will account for 50% of the final grade. The only written assignment for the course will be a take-home essay at the end of the quarter. At the last class meeting, the instructor will give students several topics, and students should choose one as the basis of the essay. Students will then have two weeks to write a 12-page (typed and double-spaced) essay based on the readings for the course. No additional reading or research will be required. This format is designed to encourage students to give maximum attention and thought to the assigned readings during the quarter. Such attention will provide the best preparation for the final essay.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course is open to all graduate students. Advanced undergraduates may also be admitted with the permission of the instructor.

JEWISH HISTORY

HISTORY 333 HISTORY OF ANTI-SEMITISM FROM ENLIGHTENMENT TO THE
5 Cr. Hrs. PRESENT

Time Meeting Days Instructor
12:30-2:18 MW Judd

Assignments (tentative): short paper; midterm exam, and final exam.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Group B, post-1750.

LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY

HISTORY 171 LATIN AMERICAN CIVILIZATIONS TO 1825
5 Cr. Hrs.

History 171 is an introductory survey of early Latin American history from Pre-Columbian times through independence (1825) that assumes no previous study of the region. It will meet three times each week for lecture and twice for discussion classes. The course will focus on a series of historical problems including: European expansion and the indigenous civilizations of America, the formation of a new colonial society, problems of race, ethnicity, class, and gender, and colonial economic and political structures. Our goal is to convey some basic knowledge about Latin American societies during this period and to provide an interpretive framework for understanding the historical changes taking place.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
10:30 MWF Andrien
10:30; 11:30 TR (recitations)

Assigned Readings:
Kenneth J. Andrien, The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America
Mark A. Burkholder & Lyman L. Johnson, Colonial Latin America (text)
J. Michael Francis, Invading Colombia, Spanish Accounts of the Gonzalo
Jimnez de Quesada Expedition of Conquest

Assignments:
There will be a midterm and a final examination and each student will write a critical review of 3-5 pages on Invading Colombia.

HISTORY 172 LATIN AMERICAN CIVILIZATIONS SINCE 1825
5 Cr. Hrs.

This course is designed to introduce students to the people, places, culture, and history of Latin America since 1821. We will consider the history of individual countries, while at the same time analyzing the effect, influence and relevance of various historical events on the region as a whole to better understand the Latin American experience. We will also consider the role of the US and international institutions in the regional politics, economics and culture.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
11:30-1:18 TR

HISTORY 534.04 HISTORY OF ARGENTINA
5 Cr. Hrs.

This course is designed to introduce students to the history and problems of contemporary Argentina. Chronological history will be approached thematically, focusing on issues such as regionalism, political culture, civil-military relations, immigration, gender, and economic development.. All students must be officially enrolled in the course by the end of the second full week of the quarter. No requests to add the course will be approved by the department chair after that time. Enrolling officially and on time is solely the responsibility of the student.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
9:30-11:18 TR Guy

Assigned Readings:
Classes will be held each Tuesday and Thursday, and it is as important to attend classes as to do all the appropriate readings before coming to class. Once a week, usually on Thursdays, assigned readings will be discussed, and students should be prepared to participate.

Assignments:
There will be one final which are required for all undergraduates. In addition to these assignments there will be two papers. The first one will be an essay exploring the significance of Jeffrey Shumways work The Case of the Ugly Suitor. The essay can deal with a number of themes such as the role of gender (particularly that of males) in this work, the role of social history in Argentina, how revolutionary was the war for independence. For other suggestions see the instructor. This essay will be due on Oct. 27 The second writing assignment will explore the significance of gender and the tango in Argentina culture. The required book, Guy, Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires explores the tango from the perspective of the history of prostitution. An optional book has been ordered (Julie Taylor, Paper Tangos), and there are also other books (Simon Collier, Tango, the Dance, the Song, the Story, Horacio Ferrer, The Golden Age of Tango, Marta Savigliano, Tango and the Political Economy of Passion, Azzi, Le Grand Tango, The Life and Music of Astor Piazzola, and Castro, The Argentine Tango as Social History) and a number of films, both Argentine and American, that explore the history of tango (e.g. Tango Bar, The Tango Lesson, Last Tango in Paris, Happy Together, Assassination Tango, Evita, etc.). For additional suggestions please consult the instructor. The second paper will be due on week November 21. Both essays should utilize additional sources, and for most undergraduates, appropriate materials can be found among the assigned readings.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Group A, post-1750.
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HISTORY 751 STUDIES IN ATLANTIC HISTORY
5 Cr. Hrs.

Please see the course description for this new course on pages 41-42.
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MILITARY HISTORY

HISTORY 311 WORLD WAR I
5 Cr. Hrs.

This course centers on one of the most significant turning points in modern world historythe First World War. Known as The Great War until the Second World War, the conflict that erupted during the summer of 1914 and endured for the next four gruesome years transformed the global balance of power, social practices in Europe and around the world, cultural trends and attitudes, the nature of politics, and fundamental economic policy. In fact, the final gasps of the war could be felt in a global influenza pandemic that carried off over 50 million casualties between 1918 and 1919. In the end, the pre-war optimism that prevailed in much of Europe, the U.S., and Japan gave way to general pessimism and foreboding around the world. This class will offer students an opportunity to probe this conflict through an examination of the fighting itself as well as the broader trends and changes that generated the war and were spawned by it. While the war was a fundamentally European affair, combatants from around the world participated and fighting took place in the Middle East, Africa, the Atlantic, and in Asia. Consequently, we will take a global approach to the Great War and situate it as a transformative event at many levels.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
9:30-11:18 TR Beyerchen

Assigned Reading (tentative):
Hew Strachan, The First World War (textbook)
Arthur Link, Woodrow Wilson: Revolution, War, and Peace
Svetlana Palmer and Sarah Wallis (eds.), Intimate Voices from the First World War.
and one or two other short books.

Assignments: (tentative)
Attendance and Participation: 10%
First 5-Page Paper: 25%
Second 5-Page Paper: 25%
Final Exam: 40%

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Groups A & B, post-1750.

HISTORY 580.01 HISTORY OF EUROPEAN WARFARE, RENAISSANCE TO 1870
5 Cr. Hrs.

History 580.01 explores the military history of Europe and those regions of the world where European military institutions and patterns of warfare dominated from the fourteenth century through the Franco-Prussian War. The American Revolution and Civil War, 1861-65, are included; the Latin American wars of independence are not. The course traces the development of the tactical means and operational methods of organized, socially sanctioned, armed violence and the development of strategies within which to apply them for political, economic or social ends. Particular attention is devoted to the human dimension of war as experienced by combatants and civilians, to the impact of technological change, and to the concept of a European Military Revolution in late medieval and early modern times. The focus is on land warfare; naval matters are addressed only in terms of their impact on land operations.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
1:30-3:18 TR Guilmartin

Assigned Readings:
John Keegan, The Face of Battle (New York: Penguin Books, 1976) [required]
Charles W. C. Oman, The Art of War in the Middle Ages, A.D. 378-1515 (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1953) [required]
Clifford J. Rogers, ed., The Military Revolution Debate: Readings on the Military Transformation of Early Modern Europe (Boulder, Colorado: 1995) [required]
Carl von Clausewitz, On War, Peter Paret and Michael Howard, tr. (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1976) [optional].
William H. McNeill, The Pursuit of Power:Technology, Armed Force and Society since A.D. 1000 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982) [optional]
Colin McEvedy, The New Penguin Atlas of Recent History, 2nd edition (London & NY: Penguin Books, 2002) [required]

Assignments:
Course requirements include a midterm, a comparative review of two books on related topics and a final examination. Texts will be available at the Student Book Exchange.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Group B, pre-1750.

THEMATIC COURSE OFFERINGS

HISTORY 362 HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY
5 Cr. Hrs.

Our daily lives are shaped by technology. We speak to each other through cell phones and via the internet, we traverse huge distances in our cars and planes, while even the production of our food supply is a heavily technological enterprise. This course explores the historical origins of our technological society. We will begin by looking at how historians have approached the question of technology, before moving on to look at some of the technologies which have decisively shaped the development of the west railways, electricity networks, computers, and weapons, for example. Our material will be primarily drawn from modern western Europe and America, but we will also devote time to premodern and nonwestern technologies.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
9:30-11:18 TR Otter

Assigned Readings: There will be a couple of assigned readings, but most material will be available on Carmen.

Assignments: There will be a mid-term examination, a final examination, and a final paper.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Group B, post-1750.

HISTORY 398 INTRODUCTION TO HISTORICAL THOUGHT
5 Cr. Hrs.

What is history and how do historians study the past? This course is designed to introduce history majors to the field of history. Through readings, films and discussions, we will explore various purposes for studying history, the types of sources available to reconstruct the past, and different methods or approaches to examining history. This course will provide an opportunity to develop analytical reading skills as well as logic and clarity in your written work and oral presentations. In other words, this is a course that will encourage you to think like a detective and argue like a lawyer. Designed as a workshop, the success of this course depends upon your active participation.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
1:30-3:18 MW Baker

Assigned Readings (tentative list):
Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course is required for all students declaring a Major in History in the Spring of 1996 or afterward, and is required for students who declared a Minor in History as of Autumn quarter 2008.

HISTORY 398 INTRODUCTION TO HISTORICAL THOUGHT
5 Cr. Hrs.

While this is a course on historical method, our actual focus will be on the nuts and bolts of reading and writing history at the undergraduate level. The goal is for students to come out with the skills to do excellent work in future history classes, to analyze many types of documents skillfully, to organize ideas in a powerful way, and to present them persuasively in writing. To this end, each class will focus on specific analytical, reading, or writing skills, and other important principals for doing history. The reading was selected to be interesting (focused on the Salem witch trials), but more specifically to offer concrete examples of primary and secondary sources on which to practice.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
10:30-11:18 MW Goldish

Assigned Readings (tentative):
Frances Hill, The Salem Witch Trials Reader
James Sharpe, Witchcraft in Early Modern England
William Kelleher Storey, Writing History: A Guide for Students

Assignments:
In-class writing assignments
Bibliography assignment
Book review assignment
Paper outline and prcis
Rough draft
Paper

This course will introduce students to historiography and historical methodology that is, to different interpretations of history and to different methods of studying it. The course uses a variety of sources and media to let students work with primary documents, autobiographical narratives, fictional and documentary films, and scholarly monographs. It covers a range of topics from a number of historical periods.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
10:30-12:18 TR Hoffmann

Assigned Readings:
A combination of books and articles will be assigned roughly the equivalent of six books.

Assignments:
Students will be required to write a number of short papers on the readings, as well as conducting group research projects to be presented in oral and written form.

This course is designed to introduce history majors to the field of history, and particularly to the historians craft. In our exploration of the ways in which historians investigate the past, we will look to different purposes for studying history, a wide array of sources that are used in examining the past, and the diverse approaches that historians embrace.

This course hopes:

To provide students with an opportunity to develop reading, writing, and analytical skills.
To help students fine-tune their abilities to present oral presentations and actively participate in class.
To expose students to the historians craft, as well as to introduce important terms, concepts, and methodologies
To develop critical thinking, to learn to locate and review evidence

Time Meeting Days Instructor
9:30-11:18 MW Judd

Assigned Readings:
Christopher Browning, Ordinary Men
Richard Marrus, A Short Guide to Writing About History (selections)
Art Spiegelman, Maus I and II
Patricia Volk, Stuffed

Assignments (tentative):
Prcis, book review; short paper, final paper

This course will introduce students planning to major in history to contemporary historical methodology. The course is designed to give students practice in the analysis of historical sources and in developing logic and clarity in both written and oral assignments.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
10:30-12:18 TR Stebenne

Assigned Readings:
J. Tey, The Daughter of Time
J. Romm, Herodotus
E.H. Carr, What is History?
David Cannadine, ed., What is History Now?
E. Gorn, R. Roberts, & T. Bihartz, Constructing the American Past: A Sourcebook of a Peoples History, 6th ed., Vol. I.

Assignments:
Discussion of the assigned reading; three chapter summaries (prcis); book review and oral presentation of the results; journal analysis and oral presentation of the results; history based on primary documents and oral presentation of the results.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This is an honors class, non-Honors students must see the instructor to get permission to enroll. This course is required for all History majors, and is required for History Minors as of Autumn quarter 2008.

HISTORY 587.01 COMPARATIVE BUSINESS HISTORY
5 Cr. Hrs.

Welcome to comparative (international) business history! In this course we shall compare the historical development of business in Great Britain, Germany, the United States, Japan, and China from pre-industrial times to the present, with emphasis on the twentieth century. We shall focus our attention on the evolution of business firms and their management, but we shall also examine the development of government-business relations and the changing relationships between business and society in each nation. In short, we shall examine business developments in their full social, cultural, political, and environmental contexts--with the overall goal of understanding convergence and divergence in business systems across the globe. Throughout, we shall examine businesspeople--men and women--as agents of change.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
1:30-3:18 TR Blackford

Assigned Readings:
Mansel G. Blackford, Rise of Modern Business in Great Britain, the United States, and Japan, 2nd editiona textbook
Thomas McCraw, ed., Creating Modern Capitalisma casebook

Assignments:
Grading will be based on two 6-page-long papers (30% each) and a take-home essay final exam about 8-9 pages long (40%). There will be no exams, except the take-home final. We shall work together on the papers in class before you work on them individually.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Students from a variety of fields and backgrounds typically take (and succeed in) this class. Groups A & B, pre & post-1750.

HISTORY 598.01* SENIOR COLLOQUIUM
5 Cr. Hrs.

In this senior colloquium, we shall explore the changing nature of the American West in recent decades, focusing on representative groups and individuals in the region. We shall try to understand what the West has meant and continues to mean to Americans. As we look into these topics, we shall, as well, examine the nature of modern American society as a whole, and its many parts, by asking to what degree changes occurring the in the West are representative of those taking place throughout the nation. We shall investigate the question of whether the West is at the cutting edge of socio-economic changes in the United States. Throughout the quarter, we shall discuss the meaning(s) of history and its significance in modern American life.

*This course is designed for senior history majors and fulfills one of the requirements for the degree in history.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
9:30-11:18 W Blackford

Assigned Readings (tentative):
Timothy Egan, Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West
John M. Findlay, Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture after 1940
David McCumber, The Cowboy Way
Susan Andrews & John Creed, Authentic Alaska: Voices of its Native Writers

Assignments:
Grading will be based on classroom participation (20%), two essays (each 20%), and a term paper (40%).

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Senior history majors.

HISTORY 598.01* SENIOR COLLOQUIUM
5 Cr. Hrs.

African Americans and Modernity in the Late 19th and 20th Centuries
This course will explore African American engagement with modernity from the late 19th century up to 1960. Rather than focusing exclusively on cultural or aesthetic issues this course will also examine political, scientific and technological innovations in the domestic and international spheres and their impact on the intellectual, ideological and lived experiences of African Americans in the period. We will examine modernitys role in shaping black identity, cultural preoccupations and engagements, involvement with and creation of technological innovations, spatial and geographic location, political interests , gender, and transnational engagements. Rather than attempting to cover every nuance of these admittedly broad categories, we will utilize representative texts to explore specific aspects of the larger themes suggested here. This course will expose students to the serious study of African American modernity and its role in facilitating more complex and nuanced evaluations of African American history, life and culture.

*This course is designed for senior history majors and fulfills one of the requirements for the degree in history.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
11:30-1:18 T Hall

Assigned Readings (readings may change but will not increase)
Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992)
Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008)
Davarian L. Baldwin, Chicagos New Negroes: Modernity, The Great Migration, and Black Urban Life (Chapel Hill; University of North Carolina Press, 2007)
Jonathan Holloway, Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris Jr, E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001)
Carol Boyce Davies, Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007)
Alexander Weheliye, Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005).
Joel Dinerstein, Swinging the Machine: Modernity, Technology and African American Culture Between the World Wars (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002)
Ravvon Fouche, Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation: Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer and Shelby Davidson (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005)
Jacqueline Stewart, Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005)

Assignments:
Weekly response papers 1-2 pages
Book Review 6-8 pages
Final Paper 15-20 pages

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Senior history majors.

HISTORY 598.01* SENIOR COLLOQUIUM
5 Cr. Hrs.

This seminar is designed to take advantage of the Center for Historical Research program, The Intersection of Diaspora, Immigration and Gender. The CHR will have up to 6 guest speakers over 4 sessions examining Diasporas forced or voluntary migrations in the ancient and medieval worlds. Students will attend these sessions (which occur during class time) and write 2- to 3-page papers on pre-circulated essays provided by the speakers. Each student will also research and write a 15-page paper on one migration during the ancient or medieval period, or on one of the themes of the program, such as the role of environment in migration, shifts in gender roles as a result of migration, or the impact of migration on religion.
*This course is designed for senior history majors and fulfills one of the requirements for the degree in history.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
2:30-5:18 F Hobbins

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Senior history majors. Guest speakers will include not only historians, but specialists in other disciplines. The schedule of speakers will be posted later this summer at http://chr.osu.edu/schedule.cfm. We will meet in class those weeks when there are no speakers.

HISTORY HONORS 598.02 PROSEMINAR IN HISTORY
5 Cr. Hrs.

The Politics, Culture, Economics and Diplomacy of Oil in Modern History
Oil: Big business, vital commodity, black gold. Oil has played a critical role in world events from the drilling of the first well in Pennsylvania to the present day. In this course will examine how and why oil has become the worlds largest industry. We will discuss the ways that the competition over control of the worlds oil has impacted international relations, global and regional politics, and the worlds economy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. After spending the first two weeks gaining a general overview of the topic of oil in modern history, we will focus in on a number of key moments and players in the world wide competition for oil hegemony up to the oil crisis of the 1970s and the nationalization of the oil industry in Venezuela. We will be reading scholarly monographs and articles, historical fiction, works of political science, and popular history, and will discuss the relative merits of each genre for the study and understanding of history.

*This course is designed for senior history majors and fulfills one of the requirements for the degree in history.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
1:30-3:18 TR Siegel
Please note we will not always meet twice a week.

Assigned Readings: (tentative)
The reading list will include several of the following:
Black, Brian. Petrolia: The Landscape of Americas First Oil Boom.
Brown, Jonathan C. and Alan Knight (eds.), The Mexican Petroleum Industry in the Twentieth Century.
Heiss, Mary Ann. Empire and Nationhood: The United States, Great Britain, and Iranian Oil, 1950-1954.
Munif, Abdelrahman. Cities of Salt.
Olien, Roger M. and Diana Davids Olien. Oil and Ideology: The Cultural Creation of the American Petroleum Industry.
Yergin, Daniel. The Prize.

Assignments:
One in-class presentation on the author(s) of the week, placing the weeks reading within its historiographical context.
One 4-6 page document analysis paper
One research paper, approximately 12-15 pages in length

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Senior history majors.

HISTORY 771 INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC HISTORY
5 Cr. Hrs.

*Please Note: This course is listed in the master schedule as History 771 until this new course is approved as History 764.

Public history can mean many different things. For some, it involves professional training to work in history-related but non-academic jobs, like historical societies, museums, government etc. For others being a public historian is defined more broadly and more diffusely. The purpose of History 764, "Introduction to Public History" is to give interested graduate students some exposure to several kinds of historical practice that fall under the general label of "public history." While public history is not a field or a method per se, it considers the variety of ways that trained academic historians can interact with the public outside the academy.

In addition to career opportunities available to people with graduate training in history in places like museums, historical societies, corporations, firms that do historic preservation and archaeology, there are an increasing number of academic jobs which require some experience with public history. This course will help our graduate students compete for both kinds of jobs.

The goal of this course is to give students some exposure to the wide variety of intellectual activities that fall under public history. It is designed to stimulate students to pursue particular activities that appeal to them, whether in additional course work or in the form of internships. This course is designed to compliment other curricular and extra-curricular initiatives being developed by the Public History project in the History Department.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
2:30-4:18 M Conn

Assignments:
The course requirements come in three parts:
1) seminar readings and discussion - I will expect you to come to class prepared and ready to participate
2) 7 short assignments along the way due dates are noted in the schedule below
3) the final project.

Your grades will be assessed according to the following formula: class participation=20%; short papers=40%; final project=40%.

HISTORY 780 TOPICS IN THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY
5 Cr. Hrs.

Readings in Sexuality History

This course is designed to give graduate students an interdisciplinary, international background to sexuality history. It consists of a series of weekly readings as well as a research assignment designed to stimulate students to contemplate the integration of interdisciplinary questions to their potential thesis topics. The readings are intentionally both interdisciplinary and international in scope so that the concepts of sexuality are debated not only within the local context, but also within the international one as well. The specific topic of this colloquium is the history and contemporary reality of prostitution, both male and female. The reading list will be build around the composition of the class and the students interests along with key works of which all students of prostitution studies should be aware. All students will prepare a research design dealing with sexuality as it pertains to their MA or PHD thesis topic or write a chapter of their thesis that integrates these readings. If that is not the focus of their research, then they may opt to prepare a complete syllabus on an undergraduate class focusing on prostitution with explanations of reading assignments. This research design or chapter should incorporate some of the theoretical or documentary materials discussed in class, and should be 15-25 pages long.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
3:30-6:18 T Guy

Assignments: Class attendance is mandatory. If a student misses a class meeting without an excuse or more than one of the scheduled classes (regardless of the reason), he/she will be dropped from the class. Course grades will be based upon class participation (70%); and the research paper or research design (30%). The research paper will be due on the day the final exam is scheduled.

HISTORY 786 COLLOQUIUM IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY, HISTORIOGRAPHY,
5 Cr. Hrs. AND THE HISTORIANS SKILLS I

History 786 introduces graduate students to the basic philosophical problems of recreating and understanding the past, to the history of historical writing, and to the methods and approaches of professional historians today. We will consider first the origins of historical consciousness and the relationship between history, fiction, and myth. Why do some people prefer history to other kinds of stories about the past? Why do some people draw sharp distinctions between history, fiction, chronicle, and myth, and others not? Next, we will study the history of historical writing from ancient China, Persia, Israel, Greece, and Rome through medieval and early modern times. How have historical thought and historical consciousness varied over time from place to place, and why? Finally, we will study the rise of the modern historical profession and of several major fields and sub-disciplines, such as cultural history, social science history, gender history, world history, and postmodern history. What are their preoccupations, assumptions, strengths, and weaknesses? What can we learn from the profession and from particular fields or sub-disciplines that can help us become better historians?

Time Meeting Days Instructor
3:30-5:18 TR Roth

Assigned Readings (tentative):
E. H. Carr, What Is History?
Graham Swift, Waterland
Peter Novick, That Noble Dream: Objectivity and the American Historical Profession
A substantial number of readings on electronic reserve

Assignments:
Three historiographical essays, which will discuss the work of a particular historian, past or present (6 pp. each), and quizzes on the reading.

WOMEN'S HISTORY

HISTORY HONORS 325 INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN’S HISTORY: THE AMERICAN
5 Cr. Hrs. EXPERIENCE

Designed for honors students, this course offers an introduction to the study of women’s and gender history by examining key individuals, groups, ideas, institutions, and developments in United States history from the perspectives of women. We will read what historians and other scholars have written about women in the past; and we will analyze historians’ sources in the form of documents and images, listening to women’s own voices and those of their contemporaries. We will focus on three kinds of changes: in women’s work and the sexual division of labor; in relationships between gender and politics; and in women’s family roles and sexuality. We will pay particular attention to differences among women in such areas as race and ethnicity, class, religion, sexuality and marital status, and the like.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
12:30-2:18 TR Hartmann

Assigned Readings:
We will use the second edition of Ellen Carol DuBois and Lynn Dumenil, Through Women’s Eyes: An American History with Documents (Bedford/St. Martin’s Press). Three additional, much shorter, books -- or the equivalent in articles -- will be assigned.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Honors standing or permission of the instructor. Group B, post-1750.

HISTORY 524 WOMEN IN THE WESTERN WORLD, THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
5 Cr. Hrs. TO THE PRESENT

This course is an introduction to the history of women in the western world, from the eighteenth century to the present. Several themes will be central to the course. We will study the processes of industrial expansion and economic change and the impact of these developments on womens social and economic position. We will also explore the political reorganization of Europe over the course of these centuries, and we will examine how women strove to shape and improve their lives under changing circumstances. Finally, we will look at how economic position, religion, sexuality, regional and national differences influenced womens experiences.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
11:30-1:18 TR Soland

Assignments: In addition to weekly readings, students will be expected to complete two short writing assignments (4-5 typed pages) as well as one term paper (8-10 typed pages) which will be due at the end of the quarter.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Group B, post-1750.

HISTORY 881.01 SEMINAR IN WOMENS HISTORY I
5 Cr. Hrs.

This is the first quarter of a two-quarter research seminar, in the course of which all students will be expected to conduct research and write a coherent, original paper on a topic dealing with womens history or gender history. (Please note that there is no geographical or chronological limitation.) In addition all students will be expected to take part in class discussions of assigned readings, and offer thoughtful and constructive criticisms of other students research projects.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
1:30-3:18 R Soland

Assignments:
During Autumn quarter we will meet on a weekly basis to discuss a series of general readings on theories and methods in womens and gender history. We will also discuss historiography and research strategies. Each student will be expected to identify a topic, collect primary sources, and produce a 5-page research proposal to be presented in class at the end of the quarter. The second quarter of the class will be devoted to the completion of this research project and to the writing of a paper based on primary sources (approximately 25-30 pages). The paper may be an independent piece of work, or it may take the form of a conference paper, an article to be submitted for publication, or a chapter of a masters thesis or dissertation.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course is open to graduate students only. Please note that this course is a two-quarter sequence. Students must enroll for both quarters in order to receive credit. This sequence is appropriate for students interested in initiating research in womens/gender history as well as students working on masters theses and dissertations. Previous graduate study in history and/or familiarity with historical theory and methods will be helpful, but is not required.

WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY 181 WORLD HISTORY TO 1500
5 Cr.Hrs.

This course examines the major issues that have shaped the human experience from the beginnings of human civilization (ca. 3500 B.C.) to ca. A.D. 1500, when the European voyages of exploration were beginning to tie the world together more tightly than ever before in a new pattern of global interrelatedness. Before 1500, societies in different parts of the world had far less contact with each other. In particular, Afro-Eurasia and the Americas remained almost entirely cut off from each other. For this reason, the main emphasis of History 181 is the comparative study of civilizations. Secondarily, the course will emphasize patterns of integration that linked different civilizations at regional and hemispheric, if not yet global, levels.

Time Meetings Days Instructor
2:30-4:18 MW
5:30-7:18 MW

Assigned Readings (tentative):
Richard W. Bulliet, et al., The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History, 4th ed. (Boston
and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2008), vol. 1

HISTORY 182 WORLD HISTORY 1500 TO PRESENT
5 Cr. Hrs.

History 182 provides each student with an introduction to the evolution of world history since 1500. The intent of the course is not to make the students into historians, but to help them to appreciate the important ways in which an understanding of history can contribute to a more general understanding of people and their world. Over the course of the semester, we will examine the interactions of various peoples and societies around the globe, from about 1500 to the 20th century. During the past 500 years, global contacts have increased and intensified through trading expeditions, aggressive invasions, religious missionary ventures, population migrations, and peaceful ambassadorial enterprises. This course will explore the ways in which religious systems, scientific and technological knowledge, political and economic structures, and cultural traditions shaped and were influenced by these contacts. A primary theme of this course is imperialism and colonization, with a focus on the issues of religion, trade, and political power within that phenomenon.

Time Meetings Days Instructor
11:30 MWF Spierling
10:30; 11:30 TR (recitations)

Assigned Readings (still tentative):
Jerry Bentley and Herbert Ziegler, Traditions and Encounters: A Brief Global History, Volume II: From 1500 to the Present (McGraw-Hill, 2008)
Bartolom de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Penguin, 1992)
Adam Hochschild, King Leopolds Ghost (Houghton Mifflin, 1998)
Primary source readings available online.

Assignments:
Assignments will include map quizzes, 2 exams and an essay on the assigned readings. Active participation in recitation sections is required and will count for a substantial part of your final grade.

Prerequisites and special comments:
The material presented in lecture is integral to the course and is not identical to the material in the textbook. Therefore, it is in your best interest to attend lectures regularly and to do the reading consistently

HISTORY 366.01 GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY
5 Cr. Hrs.

This course explores the long history of the earth and humanity from an environmental/earth systems perspective, focusing on the changing relationship of human societies and global ecologies and the problem of the sustainability of the human condition. A brief introduction to climate and the biosphere in geological time establishes the background for a comparative overview of three broad "human revolutions": the origin of the human species, the agricultural revolution, and the industrial revolution. Themes of particular importance include issues in human evolution, demography, subsistence, and technology, debates over gradual and catastrophic change in climate and the biosphere, and the prospects for a sustainable future. Term projects allow students to explore problems of individual interest.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
10:30-12:18 MW Brooke

Assigned Readings [tentative list]:
Alfred Crosby, The Children of the Sun
Brian Fagan, The Long Summer
Arno Karlen, Man and Microbes
William Ruddiman, Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum
John Brooke, A Rough Journey. This is a typescript of a book in development that will be available on Carmen and at cost of reproduction.
There will also be other readings posted on Carmen.

Assignments: Class attendance and participation in discussions (15%), quizes [IDs and short essays] on parts I, II, and III (65%), term project (20%).

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Undergraduate Program Credit:
History: Group A or Group B, and either pre-1750 or post-1750.
International Studies: This course may be taken as a part of the Minor in Globalization Studies offered by the Program in International Studies, to fulfill part of the requirement in Economic, Environmental, and Political Dimensions.
Public Health: This course may be taken as an elective in the Minor in Public Health.
GEC: This course may be taken to fulfill either (but not both) of two GEC Requirements:
4C: Social Science: Human, Natural, and Economic Resources, and
6B: Diversity Experiences: International Issues (Global or Non-Western).
Students taking the course for either of these categories need to plan their projects in consultation with the instructor so as to meet the requirement guidelines.

HISTORY 597 CRITICAL ISSUES OF THE 20th CENTURY WORLD
5 Cr. Hrs.

From a global perspective, we will survey important issues that underlay changes in the world from 1914 to the 1990s. After outlining the international systems of the late 19th century and noting the extent of globalization (defined through business practices/trade and the extension of democratic forms of government and womens rights) we will investigate how four major eras (WWI, the Great Depression, WW II, and the Cold War) shaped globalization over the 20th century world. These critical issues will focus the course: European imperialism, resistance to imperialism, decolonization, and wars of national liberation; the rise and fall of mass movements (communistic and totalitarian nation states); the reluctant participation of the U.S. in the world arena until the mid-20th century; the nuclear age; the growing power and influence of the U. S. (economically, politically, culturally); and, the reaction of undeveloped, developing, and developed nations to the spread of western-capitalistic values after WW II.

Students who come to lecture, do the reading when assigned, participate actively in the discussions, and spend enough time on the take-home assignments should should acquire a deeper understanding of the factors that shaped human activity as it changed over time in varying geographical and cultural contexts; enhance their ability to apply critical thinking through historical analysis of primary and secondary sources; and further develop their writing skills and ability to analyze and evaluate diverse interpretations of historical events.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
9:30-11:18 MW Childs

Assigned Readings:
To be determined. Past readings have included:
James H. Overfield, Sources of Twentieth-Century Global History.
Truon Nhu Tang, A Viet Cong Memoir. 1985.
Thomas L. Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization. 2000. Two more books will probably be assigned.

Assignments:
Reading quizzes every Wednesday during the last hour when discussion occurs (Discussion section will constitute 20% of the grade).

Midterm (short answers, 20% of grade); Paper (4-6 pages, 20% of grade); Final exam (short answer + essay, 40% of grade). All take-home; all submitted to turnitin.com.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
History 597 may be counted for the GEC Capstone requirement or a course in the History Major/Minor or as an elective. It is designed for third- and fourth-year students from any department.

HISTORY 597 CRITICAL ISSUES OF THE 20th CENTURY WORLD
5 Cr. Hrs.

This course looks from a global perspective at major issues that have made, or are making, the world we live in today. The course examines these issues within an historical context that begins in 1914 and runs to the end of the twentieth century. The lectures will cover a number of themes, (1) imperialism, anti-imperialism, decolonization and the post-colonial world; (2) the successes and failures of international communism; (3) the process and effects of economic globalization throughout the century; (4) the nuclear age; (5) the shift from a multipolar international system, to a bipolar system, to the post-Cold War unipolar system. Additional exercises will explore a variety of alternative approaches to understanding the world around us, including films and works of literature.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
10:30-12:18 TR Siegel
10:30 W (recitations)

Assigned Readings:
The reading will include several of the following:
Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
Neiberg, Michael S., ed. The World War I Reader
Troung Nhu Tang, A Vietcong Memoir
J. Samuel Walker, Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman & the Use of Atomic Bombs
Against Japan

Assignments:
Weekly readings and class discussions.
Midterm and comprehensive final.
Four map quizzes.
One short analytical paper based on the assigned readings.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
History 597 may be counted for the GEC Capstone requirement or a course in the History
Major/Minor or as an elective. It is designed for third- and fourth-year students from any department.

HISTORY 751* STUDIES IN ATLANTIC HISTORY
5 Cr. Hrs.

*Please note: This course will get a new course number as soon as the paperwork is completed.

This course will explore the Atlantic world from the late 15th through the 18th centuries. We will examine many of the key themes and issues in Atlantic world history, including imperialism and colonialism in Africa and the Americas, the exchange of people, ideas, and goods from one continent to the next, and economic and cultural development. Through readings and discussion we will address issues of methodology and conceptualization in Atlantic World history, the relationship between local affairs and the larger regional and global forces shaping peoples lives, and how studying the Atlantic world as a region, as well as a collection of interactive continents can help us in our research in smaller locales and regions.

Time Meeting Days Instructor
3:30-5:18 M Andrien

Assigned Readings:
Thomas Benjamin, The Atlantic World: Europeans, Africans, Indians and Their Shared
History, 1400-1900.
Jack P. Greene & Philip D. Morgan, Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal
In addition, students will also read different books and give oral reports.

Assignments:
Presentations: Five in-class presentations on an assigned book 40 % of grade (which will include class participation)
Presentations on books should be about 7 minutes, which will allow time for discussion on each. These should not provide a blow-by-blow narrative of the history provided by the author. Instead, relate what the book is about, the authors purpose, their sources and method, and how the book is useful for the study of Atlantic world history in general and its subject in particular. Providing handouts on the reading is helpful but not required.

The Paper: Students are required to submit a twenty to twenty-five page paper 5,000 to 7,500 words: an interpretative essay on 7 books in Atlantic World history that will also draw on the books used for your in-class presentation 60% of grade.

Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Graduate standing or permission of the instructor. This course is designed to give students a familiarity with the major works in Atlantic History as preparation for the two-quarter seminar (Winter of 2009 and/Spring 2010) to be taught by Professor Alan Gallay.