Course Description Booklet
Summer Quarter, 2008
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 Summer Quarter, 2009. The descriptions are accurate
as of March 12, 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.
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EUROPEAN
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FIRST TERM |
SECOND TERM
AMERICAN HISTORY
HISTORY 151 AMERICAN CIVILIZATION, 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 GEC. Not open to students with credit for History 150.01.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
10:30-12:18 MW
5:30-7:18 MW
HISTORY 152 AMERICAN CIVILIZATION 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 GEC. Not open to students with credit for History 150.02 or History 150.03.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
10:30-12:18 TR
5:30-7:18 TR
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 GEC. It is not open to students with credit for 100.01.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
10:30-12:18 MW
5:30-7:18 MW
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 GEC. It is not open to students with credit for 100.02 or 100.03.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
10:30-12:18 TR
5:30-7:18 TR
HISTORY 712 STUDIES IN EARLY MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY
5 Cr. Hrs.
Commerce and Warfare at Sea, 1200-1815
History 712, Commerce and Warfare at Sea, 1200-1815, addresses exploitation of the sea for economic and military purposes from the middle ages until the end of the Wars of Napoleon. Beginning with an overview of Chinese, Arab/Indian, European and Polynesian systems of deep sea navigation from the Dark Ages forward, the course will address the development of the Mediterranean system of maritime warfare and commerce, proceed to an overview of the development of Chinese and European methods of trans-oceanic navigation through the fifteenth century, and examine the evolving ends and means of exploitation of the sea for economic and political purposes in the ensuing age of imperial expansion. The course will address the successive Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, and French bids for global hegemony and their political and economic implications, concluding with an analysis of first England’s, and then Britain’s, success in that endeavour. The main focus is on the maritime aspects of the Revolt of the Netherlands, the Seven Years War, the American Revolution and the Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon. Asian developments, including the Japanese-Korean conflict of the 1590s will receive appropriate attention. The central theme of the course is the evolution of the technologies of commerce and warfare at sea in social, economic and political context.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
9:30-11:18 T Guilmartin
Assigned Readings:
Jan Glete, Warfare at Sea, 1500-1650: Maritime Conflict and the Transformation of Europe (London, 2000) [required].
John F. Guilmartin, Jr., Galleons and Galleys (London, 2002) [required].
John F. Guilmartin, Jr., Gunpowder and Galleys: Changing Technology and Mediterranean Warfare at Sea in the Sixteenth Century, 2nd ed. (Annapolis, Maryland, 2003) [on reserve].
Carlo M. Cipolla, Guns, Sails and Empires: Technological Innovation and the Early Phases of European Expansion, 1400-1700 , (New York, 1965; Sunflower Press paperback edition) [optional]
Nicolas. A. M. Rodger, The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain, 650-1649 (New York: W. W. Norton, 1997) [optional].
Nicolas A. M. Rodger, Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815 (New York, 2004) [required].
Assignments:
Course requirements include a seminar presentation and a 20-30 page research paper. Texts will be available at the Student Book Exchange.
MILITARY HISTORY COURSE OFFERINGS HISTORY 308 THE VIETNAM WAR
5 Cr. Hrs.
Beginning with an overview of the Southeast Asian cultural and political background, History 308 addresses the history of the Vietnam War focusing on the period from the foundation of the Doc Lap Dong Minh, the "League for Vietnamese Independence" by Ho Chi Minh in 1941 through the aftermath of the 1978 Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia. The initial lectures address the early history and cultures of Vietnam and Southeast Asia; the final lectures touch on recent developments and future prospects. The bulk of the course deals with the period 1946-1975, encompassing French and American involvement in the war and South Vietnam's struggle to survive as an independent nation. While the course addresses political reaction to the war in America, the focus is on events on the ground in Southeast Asia, encompassing developments in Laos, Cambodia and Thailand as well as Vietnam proper.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
1:30-3:18 TR Guilmartin
Assigned Readings (tentative):
Philip B. Davidson, Vietnam at War: The History, 1945-1975 (1988) [required]
Truong Nhu Tang, A Viet Cong Memoir (1986) [required]
Stuart Herrington, Stalking the Vietcong: Inside Operation Phoenix, A Personal Account (2004) [required]; first published as Silence Was a Weapon (1982) either ed. is acceptable
NOTE: One of the following four books is required:
Robert Olen Butler, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (1992)
Duong Thu Huong, Paradise of the Blind (1988)
Duong Thu Huong, Novel Without a Name, (1996)
Bao Ninh, The Sorrow of War (1995)
The following books are optional:
Eric M. Bergerud, Red Thunder, Tropic Lightning: The World of a Combat Division in Vietnam (1993) [optional]
Otto J. Lehrack, No Shining Armor: The Marines at War in Vietnam (1992)
Marshall L. Michael, III, Clashes: Air Combat over North Vietnam, 1965-1972.
Marshall L. Michael, III, The Eleven Days of Christmas: America’s Last Vietnam Battle (2002)
Chuck Gross, Rattler One Seven: A Helicopter Pilots War Story (2006)
Assignments:
Course requirements include a quiz, a mid-term and a final examination. Texts are available at SBX.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Groups A & B, post-1750.
THEMATIC COURSE OFFERINGS
HISTORY 598.01* SENIOR COLLOQUIUM
5 Cr. Hrs.
“Colonial Encounters”: European Expansion in the 19th & 20th Centuries
This course will explore Europe’s often brutal encounter with some of the peoples it colonized in the modern “Age of Empire,” and the many different ways in which historians have written about this encounter. Special attention will be paid to the French, British and Belgians in Africa, the devastating impact of their policies, and the way Africans shaped colonial cultures in Europe itself. Themes we will consider include the motives for European expansion; the emergence of new racist and humanitarian ideologies; women’s roles in empire; strategies of resistance and accommodation to colonial rule; the continuing influence of the colonial past on both sub-Saharan Africa and Europe’s multicultural societies. Students may write their final paper on an aspect of modern imperialism in some other part of the world if they so choose (e.g. the British in India, the French in Vietnam, the American encounter with Native Americans, etc.)
*This course is designed for senior history majors and fulfills one of the requirements for the degree in history.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
5:30-7:18 T Conklin
Assigned Readings:
Adam Hochschild, King Leopold’s Ghost
Conklin and Fletcher, European Imperialism: Climax and Contradictions
Caroline Elkins, Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of the British Gulag in Kenya
Herge, Tintin in the Congo
A number of articles, essays and book chapters will also be discussed.
Assignments:
1. Two pages of commentary and questions concerning the readings for five of the meetings. 10 pages: 30% of the total grade.
2. A final paper examining a “colonial encounter.” 10 pages: 40% of the total grade.
3. Attendance at and participation in all weekly meetings of the class: 30% of the total grade.
Prerequisites and Special Comments: Senior history majors.
HISTORY 598.01* SENIOR COLLOQUIUM
5 Cr. Hrs.
The goal of this course will be to apply the historical method to the study of the future, a subject matter domain that most historians have traditionally and vigorously avoided. Students will first learn about the techniques the historian uses to research and represent the past: locating evidence, drawing inferences from evidence, contextualizing evidence, writing narrative representations based on that evidence, entering into a larger discussion about those representations. Students will then use this method to represent the future. Students will write two 10 page papers during the quarter. The first will be a counterfactual history based on research on a topic of their choice (an example: what if the South had won the Civil War?). The second paper will be a scenario or description of a possible future based on research and analysis of a topic of the student’s choice (possible topics include: the future of the Ohio State University by 2015, the future of the City of Columbus by 2020, what if China becomes the leading financial power?)
*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 W Staley, D.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Open to senior history majors only.
FIRST TERM
HISTORY 111 WESTERN CIVILIZATION: ANTIQUITY TO THE 17TH CENTURY
5 Cr. Hrs.
See description page 2.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
9:30-11:18 M-R
1:30-3:18 M-R
HISTORY 151 AMERICAN CIVILIZATION 1607 TO 1877
5 Cr. Hrs.
See description page 1.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
9:30-11:18 M-R
11:30-1:18 M-R
1:30-3:18 M-R
HISTORY 152 AMERICAN CIVLIZATION 1877 TO PRESENT
5 Cr. Hrs.
See course description on page 1.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
12:30-2:18 M-R
HISTORY 181 WORLD HISTORY TO 1500
5 Cr. Hrs.
History of the human community to 1500, primary emphasis on history of civilizations, and secondary emphasis on patterns of regional and hemispheric integration.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
9:30-11:18 M-F
11:30-1:18 M-R
HISTORY 326 HISTORY OF MODERN SEXUALITIES
5 Cr. Hrs.
This course is designed to introduce students to the major issues associated with the ways different cultures have identified, regulated, and thought about sexuality from the eighteenth century to the present. Although not all countries can be covered, efforts will be made to include readings on U.S., European, Latin American, and Middle Eastern history, ones that will also address the roles of religious ideology, colonialism, law and sexual science.
During the quarter we will look at how societies used religious and cultural ideals to define appropriate and inappropriate sexual acts, and how secular laws and modernity caused these acts to be transformed into more fixed sexual identities. Since we will be discussing topics as diverse as heterosexuality, homosexuality, celibacy, and prostitution, students should understand that they need to understand how such identities have been formed historically, whether or not they personally identify with such practices.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
12:30-2:18 M-Thursday Guy
Assigned Readings (tentative):
Several books have been assigned for class use. All are available in paperback:
Elizabeth Abbott, A History of Celibacy (optional)
Angus McLaren, Twentieth-Century Sexuality: A History
Fatima Mernissi, Beyond the Veil; Male-Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society (optional)
Donna Guy and Daniel Balderston, Sex and Sexuality in Latin America (optional)
In addition, sections of Sexology Uncensored: The Documents of Sexual Science, The Geography of Perversion and other articles will be available on my web site at http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/people/guy60/ for discussion. Students can elect either to read the Abbot book on celibacy or the Mernissi and Guy books for a book report of 6-10 pages that compares and contrasts attitudes toward celibacy across time and cultures or compares Muslim sexual beliefs with patterns in Latin America. This will be due on Week 9.
Assignments:
There will be two lectures each week. Students will be expected to attend all classes, and class participation will be recognized in the final grade. Occasionally students may break into sections to meet in computer labs to do exercises that will teach students how to use the web to do comparative history.
Grades will be based upon one book report 25%; midterm exam 25%; final exam 30%; and class participation 10%, with a reduction of grades if the student does not attend classes. Students may also obtain up to 8 points of extra credit by doing written assignments on extra readings or reviews of movies related to the course. All extra credit assignments must be approved by the instructor or the teaching assistant. Both the mid term and the final will be take home exams given out 1 week prior to the date they are due. Students will have a maximum of 10 pages, double spaced. Disabled Students, all students with disabilities should speak with Prof. Guy to work out potential problems with note-taking, reading the assigned books, and taking the exams.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Groups A & B, pre & post-1750.
HISTORY 518.02 GERMANY IN THE 20TH CENTURY
5 Cr. Hrs.
The summer five-week version of this course will focus on German history from the end of World War I to German unification in 1990. Topics will include the usual suspects: the post-World War I self-destructive German republic and its many crises, the rise of the Nazis, the construction of the Third Reich, the conduct of World War Ii and the Holocaust, the postwar four-power occupation period, the rivalries and tensions between the two postwar Germanies, and eventual reunification.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
2:30-4:18 MTWR Beyerchen
Assigned Readings:
Readings will focus around Mary Fulbrook’s History of Germany, 1918-2000: Divided Nation as a textbook, with four or five shorter books offering insight into key periods or events. These may include plays, novels or first person accounts, since they are often shorter and less expensive than monographs.
Assignments:
Assignments will include two in-class essay midterms and an in-class essay final exam on Friday, July 24. Class participation will be an important component of the course.
Prerequisites and Special Comments: History 518.01 is not a prerequisite.
Group B, post-1750.
HISTORY 559 HISTORY OF SLAVERY IN NORTH AMERICA FROM COLONIAL
5 Cr. Hrs. TIMES TO 1860
In this course we will discuss the history of slavery in North America from the colonial era to the Civil War. We will include material on bondage in other societies, but the focus will be on African-American slavery in what is now the United States. We will explore various aspects of the slave experience, such as work, religion, family life, resistance, and rebellion. We will also discuss free blacks, people of mixed race, yeoman whites, and slave owners, as well as the significance of slavery as a culture, economic, and political issues.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
8:30-10:18 M-Thurs Cashin
Assignments:
Students will read several monographs, write one paper and take exams.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Group B, pre-1750.
HISTORY 772 STUDIES IN RECENT U.S. HISTORY
5 Cr. Hrs.
This intensive reading course is designed to help students prepare for general examinations. We will read recent studies in the period from the New Deal to the present, focusing on interpretations of domestic politics and policies as they intersect with economic, social, demographic, and international developments. Topics include: the changing role of the federal government; the domestic impact of the Cold War; the black freedom struggle, feminism, and other social movements; immigration and migration; shifting political alignments; changes in the American economy. In addition to understanding how historians and social scientists have approached and interpreted political and policy changes, students should develop their abilities to analyze, compare, and critically evaluate historical studies and improve their discussion and writing skills.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
1:30-3:18 TR Hartmann
Assigned Readings:
Students will read about ten books. The following list of common readings is incomplete and tentative; check with Professor Hartmann before buying books.
Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
Jefferson Cowie, Capital Moves: RCAs 70-year Quest for Cheap Labor
John Dittmer, Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
Alice Kessler-Harris, In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th Century America
Nancy MacLean, Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace
Lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right
Thomas Sugrue, Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North
Sean Wilentz, The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008
Assignments:
Students will write three short papers and a longer essay that ties the readings together.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course is designed for graduate students in history. All others interested in the course must consult with Professor Hartmann before registering for the course.
SECOND TERM COURSES
HISTORY 112 WESTERN CIVILIZATION FROM THE 17TH CENTURY TO MODERN
5 Cr. Hrs. TIMES
See description page 2.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
9:30-11:18 M-R
1:30-3:18 M-R
HISTORY 151 AMERICAN CIVILIZATION 1607 TO 1877
5 Cr. Hrs.
See description page 1.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
12:30-2:18 M-R
HISTORY 152 AMERICAN CIVILIZATION SINCE 1877
5 Cr. Hrs.
See description page 1.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
9:30-11:18 M-R
11:30-1:18 M-R
1:30-3:18 M-R
HISTORY 182 WORLD HISTORY SINCE 1500
5 Cr. Hrs.
History of the human community from 1500 to the present, primary emphasis on processes of global integration, and secondary emphasis on comparative civilization.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
11:30-1:18 M-R
1:30-3:18 M-F
HISTORY 398 INTRODUCTION TO HISTORICAL METHODS
5 Cr. Hrs.
This course examines the fundamental ideas of historical research, writing, and thinking. Students will investigate the development of historical consciousness, the rise of critical thinking, and contemporary methods of scholarship.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
1:30-3:18 M-Thurs Fink, C
Assigned Reading:
M. Bloch, The Historian’s Craft
Fritz Stern, The Varieties of History
One selected article and book
Assignments:
Critical reading of texts; class reports; several short papers.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Required of all History majors who declared their major after Winter quarter 1996.
Required of all History minors Autumn Quarter 2008 and after.
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