Graduate Course Descriptions
Fall 2006
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Africa |
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| 280H.001 - Africa in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries | Kanogo | |
| Th 2-4 107 Mulford | CCN: 39747 | |
| This seminar will examine major themes and historiographic debates in the history of Africa since 1800. Topics will include discussions of political, social and economic institutions of 19th century Africa; European scramble for colonies and the partition of Africa; Practices of colonial administration: Indirect rule and French Assimilation approaches; African negotiation of the colonial encounter; redefinitions of institutions and practices: religion, gender, work, culture, identity; health and medicine; colonial economies, apartheid; nationalism; the legacy of colonialism and reflections on post-colonial Africa. Course requirements include a book review, one oral presentation, and a research essay. Xerox material will be placed at 2337 Dwinelle Hall (History Department Library). | ||
| 285H.001 - Africa in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries | Kanogo | |
| Th 2-4 107 Mulford | CCN: 39789 | |
| This seminar will examine major themes and historiographic debates in the history of Africa since 1800. Topics will include discussions of political, social and economic institutions of 19th century Africa; European scramble for colonies and the partition of Africa; Practices of colonial administration: Indirect rule and French Assimilation approaches; African negotiation of the colonial encounter; redefinitions of institutions and practices: religion, gender, work, culture, identity; health and medicine; colonial economies, apartheid; nationalism; the legacy of colonialism and reflections on post-colonial Africa. Course requirements include a book review, one oral presentation, and a research essay. Xerox material will be placed at 2337 Dwinelle Hall (History Department Library). | ||
Ancient |
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| 280A.001 - Culture and Empire in the Roman West | Norena | |
| F 2-5 2303 Dwinelle | CCN: 39681 | |
| This seminar will examine the complex relationship between cultural change, imperial power, and local power in the Roman West, c. 50 BC-AD 200. The seminar has two main goals. The first is to explain the processes of cultural change in the western provinces of the Roman Empire through an examination of (i) the core objects, beliefs, and practices that expressed and defined Roman identity, (ii) the various mechanisms of cultural transmission in the Roman world, and (iii) the patterning of Roman culture in chronological, geographical, and social terms. The second goal is to investigate the institutions of empire in the Roman West, from the perspectives of both the central state and local communities, with a view to understanding how (if at all) the spread of Roman culture in the western empire shaped the exercise and experience of imperial power there. Central themes include Italian emigration; urbanization, public space, and civic euergetism; municipal charters, citizenship, and Roman law; the imperial cult; religious and funerary practice; Roman officials and the Roman army as agents of cultural change; the spread of Latin; the spread of Roman “taste;” the administrative and acculturative role of local aristocracies; the persistence of pre-Roman and non-Roman cultures. Throughout the seminar we will draw on the widest possible range of evidence (material, textual, comparative), and we will attempt to pay equal attention to the western empire’s Mediterranean core and to its continental hinterlands in western Europe and the Balkans. The major requirements are regular participation in seminar discussions and a final paper (20 pp.). Students are expected to have a good reading knowledge of Latin and familiarity with at least one of the relevant modern languages. | ||
Asia |
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| 275F.001 - Social Science Theories and the Writing of Late Imperial and Modern Chinese History | Yeh | |
| F 10-12 3104 Dwinelle | CCN: 39669 | |
| Updated July 25, 2006 | ||
| Description now available. | ||
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In this course we review English-language historiography on late imperial and modern Chinese history that has laid the foundation of Western academic understanding of China in the second half of the 20th century. The readings are selected to shed light on four questions: the nature of Chinese polity and society prior to the Opium War, the nature of Sino-Western encounters in the 19th and 20th centuries; the nature of Chinese transformation in the 20th century; and social science theories that inform Western historical thinking about China. Seminar participants are expected to read two or more books each week to prepare for classroom discussions. Each discussion will be led by a student who formulates the lead questions. The objectives are to train critical thinking as well as skills to weave synthesis based on acquired information. Course requirements include weekly one-page reports, regular seminar participation, two essays of 5 pages each, and a final bibliographical essay of about 15 pages. Discussion leaders are encouraged to read beyond the required list and to share with the class bibliographical essays on relevant issues. |
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| 275F.002 - The "Long" Meiji Period | Scheiner | |
| Th 2-4 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39672 | |
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I have two objectives in this course. First, I would like us to examine the transformation of Japan from late Tokugawa (which continues well into the first decade of the Meiji itself) into the second decade of the twentieth century. Second, I would like the class to investigate the historiography of the Meiji by comparing the historical works of the 50's, 60's and 70's with monographs and articles written over the last decade. The comparison entails more than a contrast of "modernization" with post-modern studies. The course aims to introduce the class to a broad range of book sand articles in political, economic, social and intellectual history. By the end of the course I hope we will have a good sense of the immensity of the changes wrought during the period with, also, some awareness of who did it and how they did do it. All students will prepare two oral and two written book reviews as well as a longer final paper of about fifteen pages. |
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| 280F.001 - The Birth of the Present | Irschick | |
| Tu 12-2 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39729 | |
| Note New Schedule! | ||
| In this course we will look at the way in which history has produced South Asia. We will look at the way in which discontinuities and thresholds have helped to shape the South Asia that we think we know. We will be occupied with understanding the relation of Central Asia to South Asia in the 16th century and the importance it holds for the development of state structure under the Mughals. We will also consider the way the Marathas historicized themselves in the course of the 19th and 20th centuries. Part of our concerns will be focused Richard Eaton’s, A Social History of the Deccan as well as on William Pinch’sWarrior Ascetics and Indian Empires, 1500-2000. The East India Company military campaigns of the early 19th century against the Marathas will also be one of our interests. We will consider not only the health of British India and its relation to Florence Nightingale but also the development of Yoga in the 20th century. Naturally, we will look at how history was written in the 19th century to understand whether it was postcolonial in effect or just a product of colonialism. Our interest will also be directed to women ascetics and men’s bodies, partly in a religious context but also in politics. All of these things will be under the rubric of Patrick Joyce, Michel Foucault and other theorists. Students will write two short papers of 2-5 pages each and a 20-page paper at the conclusion of the course. | ||
| 280F.002 - The "Long" Meiji Period | Scheiner | |
| Th 2-4 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39732 | |
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I have two objectives in this course. First, I would like us to examine the transformation of Japan from late Tokugawa (which continues well into the first decade of the Meiji itself) into the second decade of the twentieth century. Second, I would like the class to investigate the historiography of the Meiji by comparing the historical works of the 50's, 60's and 70's with monographs and articles written over the last decade. The comparison entails more than a contrast of "modernization" with post-modern studies. The course aims to introduce the class to a broad range of book sand articles in political, economic, social and intellectual history. By the end of the course I hope we will have a good sense of the immensity of the changes wrought during the period with, also, some awareness of who did it and how they did do it. All students will prepare two oral and two written book reviews as well as a longer final paper of about fifteen pages. |
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| 280F.003 - Approaches to the modern history of the Middle East | Doumani | |
| M 2-4 204 Dwinelle | CCN: 39735 | |
| New Listing Added! This course is also listed as 285F | ||
| This combined reading/research graduate seminar will focus on interdisciplinary approaches to the modern history of the Middle East. The emphasis is on social and cultural history works that influenced by theories and methods in sociology, anthropology, political science, and comparative literature. | ||
| 280G.001 - Writing Japanese History: Reading and Translation Practicum | Barshay | |
| W 2-4 180 Barrows | CCN: 39741 | |
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This seminar will be concerned with the writing of history in Japan, and (mainly) of Japan, from the Tokugawa era onward. Readings—all in Japanese—will consist of essays or extracts from longer works that have played a role in setting the course of Japanese historiography in their own time and since. Students in the seminar will be asked to read, discuss, and collectively prepare weekly (or bi-weekly) annotated translation of selected materials. In addition, each student will prepare a final project consisting of an annotated translation of a historical text pertinent to his/her own area of interest. Readings will include (most likely) works by Rai Sanyô, Kume Kunitake, Takekoshi Yosaburô, Yamaji Aizan, Tsuda Sôkichi, Noro Eitarô, Takamure Itsue, and Maruyama Masao. Students in all fields of Japanese studies with an interest in Japanese historical writing are welcome. The course may also be useful to students in Chinese history or literature who need advanced training in the use of scholarly Japanese. |
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| 285F.001 - Approaches to the modern history of the Middle East | Doumani | |
| M 2-4 204 Dwinelle | CCN: 39780 | |
| New Listing Added! This course is also listed as 280F | ||
| This combined reading/research graduate seminar will focus on interdisciplinary approaches to the modern history of the Middle East. The emphasis is on social and cultural history works that influenced by theories and methods in sociology, anthropology, political science, and comparative literature. | ||
Europe |
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| 275B.001 - Late Modern Europe: Part I | Anderson | |
| W 4-6 125 Dwinelle | CCN: 39650 | |
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This seminar will provide an introduction to some of the major issues of Europe's "long 19th century" (ca. 1789-1914): the impact of the French Revolution, the intellectual origins of socialism, religion and secularization, imperialism/empire, the crisis of the liberal state and of the international system. Woven through most of these topics, however, is the story of the changing ways Europeans were defining community -- as class, as confession, and especially as nation, an identity whose dominance in the 19th century we will by no means take for granted. The purpose of the seminar is to prepare both specialists and non-specialists for their oral exams in late modern Europe and to familiarize them with influential approaches to central problems. Our normal mode will be to concentrate on a major work each week, sometimes with articles that put the week's topic in historiographical context. Works will be drawn from French, Russian, German, Habsburg, and English history. They will include classics, such as Gellner's Nations and Nationalism, Eugen Weber's Peasants into Frenchmen, and Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism (parts I and II on antisemitism and imperialism), as well as work that is hot off the presses, such as Seth Koven's Slumming. Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian England (2004), Robert D. Crews's For Prophet and Tsar. Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia (2006), and J.P. Daughton's An Empire Divided: Religion, Republicanism, and the Making of French Colonialism, 1880-1914 (2006). In order to get as much as possible out of the seminar, participants should become familiar with a good textbook on the period. Some possibilities: R. R. Palmer and Joel Colton, A History of the Modern World (the period from ca. 1780 to 1914); Gordon Craig, Europe 1815-1914 (old but still good); Charles Breunig, The Age of Revolution 1789-1850 (Norton paperback); E.J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution; Norman Rich, The Age of Nationalism 1850-90 (Norton paperback)--but any work, or combination of works, will do. Members will be required to turn in an accurate 5-sentence summary of each book every week. They will be expected to participate vigorously in discussion. And they will write a short historiographical essay (10-12 pages) on a relevant theme of their own choosing, due at the end of the semester. |
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| 275B.002 - Early Modern Europe | Dandelet | |
| Th 10-12 2303 Dwinelle | CCN: 39651 | |
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History 275B is the foundational course in the history of early modern Europe from roughly 1400 to 1800, or from the Renaissance through the French Revolution. Its multiple purposes include the following: to examine the major themes, trajectories, and methods of the discipline as they have evolved since the nineteenth century; to read and analyze some of the major classics and current texts in the fields; and to develop the skills of historical criticism, writing, and collaborative work. The course is open to majors and minors in early modern Europe and to graduate students in other fields of history and other disciplines as space allows. It cannot be audited. This is a required course for EME students and highly recommended for students taking EME as a second field. |
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| 280B.001 - Philosophy and Politics in Modern Western European Thought | Jay | |
| M 2-4 125 Dwinelle | CCN: 39684 | |
| This seminar will explore the ways in which philosophy and politics have been intertwined in the thought of prominent European thinkers of the past two centuries. Conservative, liberal, socialist and fascist considerations of the relationship between theory and praxis will be examined. We will read works by, among others, Kant, Hegel, Mill, Marx, Nietzsche, Lukács, Heidegger, Schmitt, Arendt, and Habermas. | ||
| 280B.003 - Modern Jewish Historiography | Efron | |
| M 10-12 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39690 | |
| This seminar will offer an in-depth introduction to some of the central trends and personalities in modern Jewish historiography. We begin by reading (and reading about) the founders of modern Jewish historiography. The enterprise of critical Jewish historical scholarship has often been criticized for its atomizing effect on traditional Jewish memory. And yet, despite the absorption of modern historicist currents, Jewish historians have often attempted to construct overarching and holistic accounts of the Jewish past. As such, we will examine the various and competing historiographical visions of major Jewish historians. We will then examine a number of important themes as they pertain to the modern Jewish experience. Among them are: Jewish mysticism, Emancipation, gender, the role of Yiddish in Jewish modernization and the relations between Germans Jews. | ||
| 280B.004 - War and Memory | Adamthwaite | |
| W 10-12 | CCN: 39693 | |
| This course has been CANCELLED. | ||
| This seminar can be taken as a 280 or 285. The subject is one of the growth areas of the historiography of twentieth century Europe. The focus is on the two world wars, but this is not intended to be restrictive. Those with interests in other conflicts and periods will be welcome. The readings offer a mix of cultural, political and social perspectives. Books include Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory, Jay Winter and Emmanuel Sivan, War and Remembrance, Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau, and Annette Becker, 14-18: Understanding the Great War, and Catherine Merridale, Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945. Requirement: one paper (30-50pages); oral presentations and very short book reviews (100 word max). | ||
| 280B.005 - | deVries | |
| This course has been CANCELLED | ||
| 280B.006 - The Body and the State in Modern Europe | Durbach | |
| Tues 4-6 2523 Tolman | CCN: 39699 | |
| This course will explore the relationship between the bodies of different types of citizens and subjects--as they were imagined and experienced--and the governments of European nation states from the 1830s through the 1940s. Paying close attention to issues of gender, sexuality, class, race, and ethnicity, this course examines both governmental policies for managing, disciplining, and nurturing the bodies of citizens, and the reaction of the public to these methods. The course is organized thematically, focusing on the bodies of the poor, the dead, the prostitute, the homosexual, and others, but it attempts to situate chronologically the rise of different types of bodies as historically problematic and in need of regulation. | ||
| 280B.007 - The Forced Migration of Scientists and Scholars from Germany after 1933 | Schuering | |
| Tues 10-12 211 Dwinelle | CCN: 39702 | |
| Updated June 28, 2006 | ||
| NEW COURSE! | ||
| The expulsion of scientists and scholars as a result of the policy of the Nazi regime was a trenchant break with profound consequences, one of the darkest moments in European intellectual history. This course will examine multiple biographies from a comparative perspective, aiming at a comprehensive social profile of that group. We will also try to assess the consequences of forced migration for scholarly fields in various countries while considering recent trends in the historiography on exile and emigration. | ||
| 285B.001 - War and Memory | Adamthwaite | |
| W 10-12 | ||
| This course has been CANCELLED. | ||
| This seminar can be taken as a 280 or 285. The subject is one of the growth areas of the historiography of twentieth century Europe. The focus is on the two world wars, but this is not intended to be restrictive. Those with interests in other conflicts and periods will be welcome. The readings offer a mix of cultural, political and social perspectives. Books include Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory, Jay Winter and Emmanuel Sivan, War and Remembrance, Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau, and Annette Becker, 14-18: Understanding the Great War, and Catherine Merridale, Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945. Requirement: one paper (30-50pages); oral presentations and very short book reviews (100 word max). | ||
Latin America |
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| 275E.001 - Historiography of Latin America | Taylor | |
| W 10-12 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39666 | |
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This graduate readings course is meant as a foundation for further reading, study, and critical reflection about Latin America during the colonial period. The purposes are to reckon with some of Latin America's past through recent books and articles, and to establish how colonial history has been, and might be, written. We are interested in the state of play in this field of study-the "hot" and "cold" topics, issues and debates, then and now. Are there perennial topics and issues? Topics and issues that have been superseded (resolved or simply left behind?), sidestepped, and ignored? Have concepts-ways of asking questions-changed? What sorts of knowledge have been produced? How have academic disciplines other than History contributed to this field of study? We are also interested in imagining the possibilities for more synoptic reckonings of colonial history. Survey exposure to colonial Latin America assumed. |
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| 280E.001 - Latin America and the U.S.: Transnational and Traditional Approaches | Chowning | |
| W 2-4 3104 Dwinelle | CCN: 39723 | |
| Updated September 12, 2006 | ||
| Note new room! | ||
| This course will explore the good and the bad of "transnationalism." We will read some general material on how historians have conceptualized transnationalism, as opposed to comparative history, international history, diplomatic history, etc. We will also a few of the classics of the U.S-Latin American relations literature, e.g. Walter LaFeber's The New Empire and Kinzer and Schlesinger's Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala. But the emphasis will be on works that aim for a "transnational" dimension, e.g. Thomas Klubock's Contested Communities, in which the bourgeois values of the Braden Copper Company are transferred to Chile (1920s-50s) with unexpected results, or Eric Zolov's Refried Elvis, which explores the ways that the North American counterculture penetrated and shaped Mexican culture in politically-important ways. | ||
Medieval |
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| 280B.002 - Characterizing Change in the Central Middle Ages | Miller | |
| Tu 2-5 2525 Tolman | CCN: 39687 | |
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This seminar examines the varied ways medieval historians have conceptualized and explained historical change in Western Europe over the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries. It will consider classic themes, such as the “commercial revolution,” the “investiture conflict” and the “renaissance of the twelfth century,” along with newer formulations, such as the debate over the “feudal revolution.” Once confidently positioned as the period giving rise to celebrated modern institutions (the state, the university), the central Middle Ages has more recently been characterized as the birthplace of western intolerance and misogyny. How and why has this happened? Prerequisite: 275B.002 (Medieval Europe) or permission of the instructor. Reading knowledge of either French or German required. In addition to vigorous and informed participation, requirements include weekly brief summaries of the arguments of the works read and two short historiographical essays. |
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Methodology |
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| 283.001 - Thinking Through History | Koziol | |
| Th 4-6 2523 Tolman | CCN: 39756 | |
| Updated June 29, 2006 | ||
| New Schedule! | ||
| In the west, history has always been part of very large debates about the nature of society, the powers and limits of government, the capacity of individuals, and the role of religion. It is less a matter of writing history than of thinking with history – thinking about the present through the past. The questions are why we do history this way and whether we should continue doing it. Because this habitus is distinctively (and originally) European, the readings are entirely European. They are, however, quite broad: from Thucydides, Aristotle, and Machiavelli to Marx, the British Marxists, the Annales, Foucault, and Hayden White. NB: A sample of readings will be made available through “CourseWeb” (or the online Schedule of Classes) or by emailing the instructor. Also, only the first weeks’ readings, books in limited printings, or required translations will be made available for purchase at the bookstores. For other readings, students should make their own direct purchases. | ||
Science |
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| 275S.001 - Introduction to the History of Science | Hahn | |
| Mon 2-4 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39678 | |
| Note new schedule! | ||
| The course calls for intensive readings of secondary sources in the history of Western natural philosophy, from the Greeks through Newton. It is especially useful for students preparing for the graduate examination in this field. | ||
| 290.001 - Historical Colloquium: History of Science | Staff | |
| M 4-6 140 Barrows | CCN: 39798 | |
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1 unit, graded S/U. Meets together with the UCB-UCSF Colloquium in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine. For details see http://ohst.berkeley.edu/ohst_events.html. |
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United States |
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| 275D.001 - | Spear | |
| Th 12-2 2227 Dwinelle | CCN: 39660 | |
| Updated August 31, 2006 | ||
| Note New Room! | ||
| This course is an introduction to the literature of North American history from the beginning of European settlement to the Civil War. It is also an introduction to the study of history at the graduate level, which will focus on teaching you the particular reading and analytical skills that distinguish a professional approach to the historical literature from other ways of reading history books. Rather than a systematic survey of pre-Civil War history, the course will emphasize key questions in the field, significant approaches and modes of analysis, and important interpretive frameworks through which American history literatures have developed. | ||
| 280D.001 - Urban History | Henkin | |
| W 2-4 2227 Dwinelle | CCN: 39713 | |
| This course engages recent scholarly work on the history of large cities in the United States between 1790 and 1940 and is designed especially for students pursuing a second field in comparative urban history or another relevant comparative field in social/cultural history. | ||
| 285D.001 - Capitalism, Slavery, and Politics in Nineteenth Century America | Einhorn | |
| W 12-2 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39774 | |
| This seminar is designed for students who want to conduct research on topics related to the political history of the United States in the nineteenth century. Common readings will be tailored around the particular interests of students, but will focus on such broad political history topics as the revival of interest in political economy and policy history, the impact of slavery on American politics, and the ways in which antebellum practices shaped aspects of the polity after the Civil War. Interested students should begin discussing potential research topics with me as soon as possible. | ||
| 285D.002 - Mid-20th Century U.S. Intellectual History | Hollinger | |
| Tu 2-4 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39777 | |
| Detailed description now available! | ||
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This graduate research seminar is devoted to the study of the United States during the quarter-century running from the end of the 1930s through the beginning of the 1960s. Although the instructor will try to accommodate students whose interests run more in the direction of political than intellectual history, the seminar's intended concentration will be on intellectual activity, especially as taking place in one or more of the following closely related matrices: 1) the engagement with societies and cultures outside the North Atlantic West prompted by World War II, by the geo-political rivalry with Soviet power, and by the decline of the European colonial empires; 2) liberal Protestantism as a half-way house between Christian orthodoxy and secular world-views; 3) the tension between the cognitive authority of science and the political authority of governmental institutions; 4) the transformation of Jewish intellectuals from an institutionally excluded identity group to one demographically overrepresented in American academia; 5) the initiatives and counter-initiatives surrounding Catholicism in relation to fascism, democracy, pluralism, and anti-communism; and 6) the military experience of World War II, producing one of the only two generations of American intellectuals -- the other being that of the Civil War veterans -- with significant military experience. Students may select topics outside these matrices if they choose, but will be encouraged to work within the seminar's chronological frame (roughly 1938 to 1963). |
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| UCSF - The Pursuit of Racial Science since 1800 | Suran | |
| Fri 10-12 3333 California St., S.F. | ||
| Updated July 27, 2006 | ||
| For information on any UCSF History courses, contact the Director of the Graduate Program, Professor Elizabeth Watkins, at watkinse@dahsm.ucsf.edu. Interested graduate students can receive credit for these UCSF courses by completing an Intercampus Exchange Program Application. Go to http://www.grad.berkeley.edu/degrees/exchange.shtml for detailed instructions. | ||
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Emphasizing disputes within medicine, anthropology, and the biological sciences, this seminar surveys the history of racial science from early 19th century craniometrics to 21st century genomics. Topics include the Darwinian controversy, Anglo-American eugenics, Boasian anthropology, Nazi medicine, evolutionary genetics, the linkage of "color" and "culture" in multiculturalist discourse, and the collection of racial data by public health authorities. NOTE: Before our first meeting on Friday, Sept. 15, please read the following five articles, posted as PDF files at http://www.dahsm.medschool.ucsf.edu/history/course_descriptions.aspx. Do your best to decipher the difficult technical passages. This Fall 2006 quarter course runs from September 14 through December 1. |
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| UCSF - Gender in Science and Medicine | Watkins | |
| Tu 10-12 3333 California St., S.F. | ||
| For information on any UCSF History courses, contact the Director of the Graduate Program, Professor Elizabeth Watkins, at watkinse@dahsm.ucsf.edu. Interested graduate students can receive credit for these UCSF courses by completing an Intercampus Exchange Program Application. Go to http://www.grad.berkeley.edu/degrees/exchange.shtml for detailed instructions. | ||
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This course examines the role of gender in shaping scientific and medical careers and how gender has influenced the construction of scientific and medical theories, with attention to the history of theories about sex differences, considering how and why these theories were developed, how and why they underwent change, and how and why they reflected wider cultural concerns. This Fall 2006 quarter course runs from September 14 through December 1. |
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| 200X.001 - The Bancroft Library Press Room Course: "The Hand Printed Book in its Historical Context" | Ferriss | |
| F 1-5 Off Campus | ||
| Instructor Approval Required | ||
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A one-semester, two-unit course open to both graduate and undergraduate students. There are no prerequisites but enrollment is by consent of the instructor and is limited to six students because of the small press room space. Interested students may email the instructor: lesferriss@earthlink.net and should attend the first class meeting. The Bancroft Library is undergoing renovation, and the class will meet in the Press Room in the Bancroft's temporary quarters on Allston Way, between Oxford and Shattuck. Under the guidance of the instructor, students examine and discuss original printed books from the Bancroft collections ranging in date from the 15th century to the present. Approximately one half of the class time is devoted to a study of the design and production of books from the hand press period. The course also presents a historical perspective on the various technologies involved in the production of printed books: type founding, paper making, binding, illustrations, and the evolution of the printing press itself. Students will also learn to set type by hand, design and lay out a substantial pamphlet, and print and bind at least 35 copies by the last class meeting. The texts for these pamphlets are selected from the manuscript collections of The Bancroft Library with input from class members. In some cases, editorial work is required. By combining actual printing with a historical overview, students gain a practical as well as theoretical appreciation of the art and technology that has dominated communication in the western world for over five centuries. The class also points out the limitations and problems inherent in hand printing. The instructors, Lester Ferriss and Peter Koch, teach in alternate semesters. Both are professional printers with a strong interest in the history of books and printing. |
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| 300.001 - Teaching History at the University | Klein | |
| Tues 4-6 107 Mulford | CCN: 39966 | |
| Note new schedule! | ||
| This class will introduce graduate students to a variety of techniques and theories used in teaching history at the university level. It will examine readings dealing with a range of classroom situations, opportunities, and challenges, with the goal of enabling future college teachers of history to understand the learning process of their students and to develop and improve their own teaching skills. The course will have two primary goals: (1) to train graduate students to work more effectively as graduate student instructors in history classes at Berkeley; and (2) to introduce students to techniques of designing and running their own classes that they will use when they become independent instructors and, ultimately, professors of history in their own right. | ||
Research and Teaching Credit |
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| 296.001 - Dissertation and Research Writing | ||
| CCN: 39810 | ||
| 298.001 - Employment Credits | ||
| CCN: 39813 | ||
| 601.001 - M.A. Preparation | ||
| CCN: 39969 | ||
| 602.001 - Ph.D. Orals Preparation | ||
| CCN: 39972 | ||