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SEMESTER 2009-10
GRADUATE LEVEL COURSES
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HST 410.A/510.A Topics in Foreign Policy: The U.S. and the Middle East – W F 11:15-12:30
Dr. Amanda McVety
This course is an examination of U.S. involvement in the Middle East since 1776. Throughout, we will examine the roles state and non-state actors played in American missions, travels, investments, and interventions in the region. Along the way, specific attention will be paid to American imaginings about the Middle East, the correspondence between U.S. foreign policy and the rise of radical Islam, and the idea of waging a “war on terror.” I hope that this course will challenge you to think more critically about the history of U.S. involvement in the Middle East and also provide you with a framework for intelligent discussion of current foreign policy concerns in the region.
HST 428/528 Russia’s War and Peace – T R 11:15-12:30
Dr. Stephen Norris
This course will introduce students to the history of nineteenth-century Russia by using Tolstoy’s War and Peace as a guide. We will discuss society, politics, culture, family life, wars, national identity, and other themes addressed in the novel. In addition to completing War and Peace, we will make use of a wide range of other sources, including memoirs, secondary critiques, films, music, and art that all discuss Russia and Europe during the Napoleonic era.
HST 436/536 Havighurst Colloquium (4 credits) - MW 12:20-2:00
Topic: Politics, Society and Culture in East Europe since 1989
Dr. Venelin Ganev (Department of Political Science
HST/WMS 450.E / 550.E Women and Empire – MWF 10:10-11:00
Dr. Anne Rose
This course examines European colonialism, imperialism, decolonization, and postcolonial politics through the lens of women’s history. We will explore women’s agency and oppression in relation to colonialism and imperialism in geographic contexts ranging from Europe to Latin America to Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. We will understand how imperial power and resistance was often realized in gender-specific ways. We will investigate the roles of European women in producing imperial discourse. We will explore views of race and identity in travel writing by women. We will investigate gendered contributions to the domestication of empire. We will encounter female pirates, prisoners and slaves, missionaries, aristocrats, ambassadors' wives, and tourists.
HST 471/571 The Age of Bismarck – W F 11:15-12:30
Dr. Erik Jensen
Survey of German political, social and cultural history in the 19th century.
HST 710 Colloquium in U.S. History – M 12:45-3:25
Topic: The Age of Revolution in North America and Europe, 1750 to 1850
Dr. Andrew Cayton
The course will engage recent scholarship (and some major primary sources) on the origins, progress and outcomes (many of them unanticipated) of the massive political, economic, social and cultural changes that took place around the North Atlantic from the middle of eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century. We will focus on developments in the United States (and to a lesser extent, Great Britain, France, Haiti and Mexico) in order to consider global revolutions in production, consumption, communication, social organization, and political structures. How did things change in this period? Why? What were the consequences? How did men and women make sense of perpetual upheaval? Can historians fashion an overall narrative of revolution in this period (“the birth of the modern world,” for example)? Is it better to think in terms of a series of variations on a theme? Or does the emergence of enforced territorial and cultural borders in the wake of late eighteenth-century experimentation dictate that we stick to national stories?
Students will be asked to read approximately one book a week and write several essays, including one mini-research paper.
HST 720 Colloquium in European History - R 4:10-6:50
HST 780 Colloquium in World and Comparative History - R 4:10-6:50
(Students may register for either course number.)
Topic: The History of Food in Europe and America
Dr. Robert Thurston
“Food” here means comestibles in the broad sense, anything from bread to alcoholic beverages to “street” drugs such as cocaine. We will investigate relationships between food and culture, including patterns of social organization and interaction, the rise of public debate and organized political activity, the construction of gender, and struggles over the morality of eating. We will pay close attention to technological change in farming, transportation, and the media. Imagery of food, especially in advertising, with its messages about proper behavior, will be a particular concern.
HST 793 Historical Methods – T 12:45-3:25
Dr. Daniel Cobb
An introduction to the practice and the discipline of history, for beginning graduate students. Required of all first-year students, this course will develop practice skills needed by history graduate students as well as addressing problems of evidence and interpretation. The course will also serve as an introduction to the history department and to the approaches to history that historians in it typically practice.
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