History 700N – K. Germany Th 5:00-7:30
“Oral History”

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This is a class about seeing and hearing, looking and listening. It is designed to introduce students to oral history, to issues of memory and history, and to their role in documentary studies. This course will address three major questions: 1) How do people tell their stories? 2) What are the meanings of those stories? 3) What are the best ways to document those stories and experiences about the past and present them in edited form to an interested general audience? Students will explore various methods, theories, and ethical concerns facing historians engaged in oral and documentary research and will read and write extensively about those issues. Students will also receive instruction in creating a digital archive of their research, in editing digital audio, and in producing work using new media. The major assignment for the course will be a significant research project using oral and documentary history. As part of that project, students will be expected to produce an audio/video archive of their work during the course and either a short audio documentary essay (or video or digital essay) on their topic or a paper intended for publication in a scholarly publication.

History 700R – SP Mackenzie W 2:30-5:00
“Warfare and Society in the Modern World”
(Meets requirements for fields in Modern Europe; “Culture, Identity, and Economic Development.”)

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course aims to expose students to the varied interactions between societies and warfare from the fifteenth century down through the twentieth century. Western developments will receive due consideration, but events and processes in the non-Western world shall also receive a good deal of emphasis. Themes to be explored will include the connections between socio-cultural norms within various societies and their ‘ways of war’, civil-military relations, technological developments, and attempts at root-and branch military reform in the face of external threats. The place of War & Society as a sub-discipline within History will also be examined.

History 702 – L. Ford W 9:00-11:30

History 707B – E. Kerenji M 6:30-9:00

History 720 – WD Kinzley F 9:30-12:00

History 752 – D. Littlefield T 5:00-7:30

History 787 – A. Marsh W 5:30-8:00

History 792 – R. Weyeneth M 2:30-5:00

History 803 – L. Glickman Th 2:00-4:30

History 700S_ - V. Littlefield Th 6:00-8:30
“Women in Southern History, 1865-Present”

COURSE DESCRIPTION
Students will explore the role of gender, class, race, and region in understanding Southern women’s experiences. Readings, films, music, guest speakers, and discussions will be used to illuminate the myths and realities of Southern women during the 19th and 20th centuries.

History 700T – Sklaroff Th 2:00-4:30
“Cultural History in America”

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is a graduate-level introduction to the historical literature and major historiographical debates in U.S. Cultural History. As “culture” remains one of the most complex and contested terms, the course will probe various meanings of the word, while questioning how historians have developed many, often competing, definitions of American culture. We will examine cultural values, symbols, and images, while chronicling those media that disseminate cultural ideologies. With attention to the ways in which both culture influences and is affected by broad social and political currents in US History, the course will probe such questions as: How has the concept of leisure changed? How has racial and ethnic imagery changed over the course of American History? How has technology shaped the meaning of politics, war, and social movements? Although the course maintains a chronological structure, it will also feature consistent themes which students are encouraged to consider across decades.

History 700U - G. Kuenzli T 10:00-12:30
“Race and Identity in Latin America”
(Meets requirements for fields in Latin American History; “Culture, Identity, and Economic Development)

COURSE DESCRIPTION
The process of defining, negotiating, and deploying constructions of race and categories of identity is at the core of Latin American history. Race continues to be socially constructed, historically contingent, articulated through power relations, and interconnected with ethnicity, gender and class. Since independence, Latin American intellectuals and subalterns have engaged in the process of defining the boundaries of citizenship in the nation-building process. This seminar examines the multiple articulations of race and nation throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through the case studies of Cuba, Peru, Bolivia, Columbia, Argentina, and other Latin American countries, we will engage the theories and methods historians have applied to the analysis of race and ethnic identity in the region.

History 700V – November W 6:00-8:30
“History of Race and Science”
(Meets requirements for fields in US history; modern Europe; “Culture, Identity, and Economic Development)

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course will place our contemporary discussion about race into a historical context by investigating the history of scientific (and pre-scientific) discourses on race, starting in Antiquity and continuing to the Human Genome Project. Emphasis will be placed on the role of science in shaping perceptions of race, the priorities scientists brought to their investigations of race, and the consequences of these inquiries.

History 703 – Hendricks T 3:00-5:30

History 706 – Edwards T 5:30-8:00
“Religion and Society in Europe, 1400-1800”
(Meets requirements for fields Medieval and Early Modern Europe; “Culture, Identity, and Economic Development)

COURSE DESCRIPTION
The religious revolutions of sixteenth-century Europe not only challenged theological truisms but undermined the premises upon which much of European society was built. Moving from a united Christendom to fragmented Christianities challenged the intellectual foundations for monarchical rule and paternal authority. The ability of Luther and other reformers to defy clerical authorities, and the beliefs that supported this defiance, provided later revolutionaries with powerful ideologies. Events stemming from this religious crisis, such as the French Wars of Religion and the imperial wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, would influence European politics and society well into the nineteenth century. This seminar will explore the social and cultural repercussions of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and suggest ways in which they influenced later debates and policies in both Europe and those areas touched by European cultures. Among the topics to be covered are popular culture and spiritual life in pre-Reformation Europe, Christianity and revolution, the ideology of the early Reformation, technology and religious propaganda, religious reform and gender, the practical effects of doctrinal decisions, divisions within both Protestant and Catholic confessions (for example, the formation of Puritans, Presbyterians, Pietists, and Jansenists), "Christianizing" the European population, developing colonial missionary programs (here the emphasis will be on Latin America and Asia), spirituality and the Scientific Revolution, folkloric religion v. doctrinal orthodoxy, and the place of religion in the Enlightenment. Reading will be primarily in secondary sources designed to provide the student with the material for an examination field in Medieval Europe, Early Modern Europe, or CIED. Assignments will consist of book reviews, class presentations, and a historiographical essay.

History 712 – Weyeneth M 2:30-5:00
“Public History Practicum”

History 802 – Ford M 9:30-12:00

History 815 – Coenen Snyder F 9:30-12:00