Graduate Course Descriptions
Fall 2007
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Ancient |
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| 280A.001 - Topics in Ancient History: From polis to oikoumene | Elm | |
| Thurs 12-2 3104 Dwinelle | CCN: 39666 | |
| This course is co-taught with Professor Rebecca Lyman | ||
| This course will focus on Augustine's City of God. But we want to use the text as a guide-line to investigate "on the ground" the transformation from polis to oikoumene in late antiquity. Augustine's text will be supplemented by recent studies on the evolution of the late Roman city, on aspects of material culture, archeological findings, but also a number of theoretical approaches to space, mappings, and geographical perspectives. We want to investigate how Christianity changes membership in the ancient city, whether the polis as a concept continued to play a role in the discourse on "citizenship" in the oikoumene and if so what that role looked like, and address recent scholarship positing (once more) the decline of the Roman empire. | ||
Asia |
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| 275F.001 - What is Early Modernity? The Case of Japan | Berry | |
| Wed 2-4 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39654 | |
| This course will concentrate on major themes in Tokugawa history (1600-1850), with some early attention to the period of Warring States (1467-1600). Alert to crisis and conflict, we shall also be concerned with the social and economic invention that generated stunning vitality in a closed and status-ridden polity. Topics include state-making, samurai trouble, the urban and demographic explosion, literacy and print culture, agrarian transformation, academic and popular thought, international relations, the floating world, and the ideology of work. Participants will write two bibliographic essays. All welcome, no prerequisites. | ||
| 275F.002 - Culture, Commerce, and the Shaping of the Chinese World Order: Selected Readings on Modern and Contemporary China | Yeh | |
| Fri 2-4 2227 Dwinelle | CCN: 39657 | |
| Note Schedule Change and New Room! | ||
| This course engages the issue of China’s modern transformation, both domestically and in its relationships with the non-Chinese world from the 1850s to the end of the 20th century, via culture and economy. The course will begin with a review of seminal scholarly writings that have structured Western understanding of China during the Cold War. It will end with an examination of contemporary reports, largely by journalists and policy makers, on the “power shifts” in today’s East Asia. In between we will consider, drawing on scholarly and other materials, major shifts in Chinese culture and economy between the 1850s and 2000. Readings on culture and economy will be grouped under three headings: “Cultural encounters,” “Wars and revolutions,” and “Socialist states, capitalist markets.” Students are expected to have mastered textbook coverage of the history of modern China from 1795 to the present. Seminar discussions will focus on the interactive developments between war and revolution, on the one hand, and culture and economy, on the other. In addition to a general familiarity with the major personalities and events of this period, each student is expected to develop critical reading skills and build bibliographies that permit in-depth reviews on specific topics. Course requirements include mandatory seminar participation, short (3-page) review papers, annotated bibliographies with thematic focus, and a term essay (12-15 pages) on a topic of the student’s choice. | ||
| 280F.001 - Reading in Modern Southeat Asian History and Historiography | Zinoman | |
| Wed 12-2 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39714 | |
| Also listed as 285F | ||
| The purpose of this course is to introduce graduate students to some of the most influential works, figures and debates within the field of Southeast Asian History. Most weekly readings are taken from "classic" texts that have shaped the study of the field (for good or for ill) in important ways. Early readings will address important efforts to think about Southeast Asian history as a coherent academic field. Many of the later readings discuss general conceptual formulations put forward by scholars of the region that have been influential in subsequent scholarship. Examples include Furnivall's "plural society," Wolter’s ideas about "localization" and "mandala" state-craft, Smail's advocacy of "autonomous history," Scott's notion of the "moral economy of the peasant," Geertz's theses on "agricultural involution," and the "theater state," and Anderson's famous account of the emergence of "imagined communities." Students are expected to do the readings, deliver in-class presentations and write a 20-25 page paper. The course may also be taken as a 285 but with a different writing assignment. | ||
| 280F.002 - Japanese Colonialism: Historiography and Research Issues | Kim | |
| Mon 12-2 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39717 | |
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In this seminar, we will explore rise and fall of the modern Japanese colonial empire, its global and regional economic impact and political/administrative structures, cultural clashes and patterns of assimilation operating between Japan and the colonized nations, as well as literary expressions and intellectual discourses produced by the colonization process. In addition to detailed examinations of the latest research results on foreign policies, domestic political dynamics and intellectual and cultural expressions of the Japanese imperialist discourse, we will also look into the lives of the colonized population, mainly Taiwanese and Koreans. In the process we will deconstruct the "national histories" of Japan, Korea and China/Taiwan through which dominant narratives regarding the experiences of imperialism and colonization are told in East Asia. This seminar is primarily intended for graduate students specializing in modern history of East Asia, but is open to any graduate-level student, as long as he or she is seriously interested in history and culture of East Asian nations. The reading materials are tentatively to be in English language, but depending on the make-up of participants, we might substitute some (or possibly all) of them with Japanese-language materials. They will constitute of the most recent and historiographically significant secondary literature, selections from key primary sources, and theoretical materials. Course Requirements: Participants will submit substantive (1,500 words or longer) critical reflections every week on assigned readings, alternating with oral presentations (15 minutes each). In addition, they should also submit either two medium-length (3,000 words or longer) historiographical papers or a long research paper (5,000 words or longer), using non-English language sources, on a topic to be worked out with the instructor beforehand. Detailed schedules and explanations of procedures will be provided in class. |
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| 280F.003 - "Epistemic moments?": South Asian historiography | Deshpande | |
| Th 2-4 3104 Dwinelle | CCN: 39720 | |
| This course will interrogate different theoretical and methodological perspectives from the 1950s onwards on South Asia's past. We will talk about the Cambridge school, old and new, Marxist social history, Subaltern Studies and postcolonialism, gender, urban and environmental history and transnational history. One of the objectives will be to consider the philosophical issues underlying these different approaches, especially in their treatment of concepts of empire, nationalism and modernity. Another is to think about the methodological innovations and historical problems generated by fresh perspectives and debates on various periods and aspects of South Asian history, ranging from peasant resistance and colonial knowledge to nationalist discourse, political economy and popular memory. We will read both classics (Ranajit Guha, Partha Chatterjee, among others) and more recent works (Mrinalini Sinha, Manu Goswami, etc.) | ||
| 280F.004 - Early Modernity between East and West: Ottoman History, ca. 1580-1826 | Staff | |
| Tues 12-2 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39723 | |
| Instructor: Baki Tezcan | ||
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Comparing the "movement in England from late-Tudor absolutism to an increasingly limited monarchy under the Stuarts" to the Ottoman depositions of the seventeenth century, which have generally been interpreted as symptoms of Ottoman decline, Walter Andrews and Mehmet Kalpakli recently wondered why "movements toward limitations on monarchical absolutism are seen as an advance in the one case and as a decline in the other" (The Age of Beloveds: Love and the Beloved in Early-Modern Ottoman and European Culture and Society [Duke University Press, 2005]). We will make an attempt to answer their question and everything else that it brings to mind. This seminar aims at critically engaging with both the historiography on early modern European and world history, and Ottoman history and historiography of the late sixteenth through the early nineteenth centuries, the latter of which revolves around the theme of decline and/or its refutation. Can we talk about a global early modernity, or early modernities (see Daedalus 127/3 [Summer 1998]), and if so, what exactly is early modern? Is the Ottoman Empire of the seventeenth century early modern, and if so how does one reconcile the Ottoman early modernity with an imposed modernization that followed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? Could the Ottoman Empire have had a colonial experience without being colonized? If the Ottoman Empire did not decline in the seventeenth century, as many an Ottoman historian claims these days, what exactly happened? Does Orientalism explain everything? What do capitalism and nationalist historiographies have to do with all of this? We may not be able to answer all of these questions, but we will make a point of addressing them. The syllabus for the seminar will be finalized by Friday, August 10. Each student will be expected to write several response papers, some of which may be waived if the student opts for a research paper that will be due on the last day of finals. You may reach the instructor, who will be in Istanbul in July, at btezcan@ucdavis.edu |
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| 280F.005 - The Symbolic Life of Chinese Villages | Johnson | |
| CCN: 39725 | ||
| Also listed as 280G.001 | ||
| Description and course details posted under the 280G.1 listing. | ||
| 280G.001 - The Symbolic Life of Chinese Villages | Johnson | |
| Mon 2-5 107 Mulford | CCN: 39726 | |
| Also listed as 280F.005 | ||
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Villages were the foundation of Chinese culture, and ritual was the core of village symbolic life. Almost every village had its own ritual repertoire because neither the state nor the great religions had any authority over local festival life, which was the matrix of village ritual. In recent years very many new primary sources and related scholarship have been published which are completely changing how we think about village ritual/religious life. They gives a different perspective than the Taoist-dominated research on village religion on Taiwan and southeastern China that has dominated the field for the past generation. This material provides any number of excellent topics for dissertations and articles. The seminar will introduce students to the latest scholarship, give an overview of the new sources that are available, and provide training in how to read them. Ambitious students with adequate language preparation should be able to end the semester with a draft of a publishable paper or a dissertation prospectus. Students without advanced language preparation should not be unduly concerned, because the relevant texts are written in fairly simple language. (It is the context that is the problem.) The preferred meeting time is Monday afternoon but the final decision will depend on student needs. Interested students and those with questions are asked to contact Professor Johnson by email before mid-August. |
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Europe |
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| 275B.001 - | Anderson | |
| Mon 4-6 2227 Dwinelle 1st Mtg Only | CCN: 39630 | |
| This course will meet at an off campus location to be announced during the first class session. | ||
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This seminar provides an introduction to some of the major issues of Europe's "long 19th century": the impact of the French Revolution; the intellectual and psychological origins of socialism; religious developments and "modernist, secularist" responses; 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 not take for granted. The purpose of the seminar is to prepare both Europeanists and others for oral exams in late modern Europe and to familiarize them with classics as well as bright new approaches to central problems. In order to get as much as possible out of the seminar, participants should arrive familiar with a good textbook on the period. Some possibilities: R. R. Palmer and Joel Colton, A History of the Modern World (for the period ca. 1780 to 1914; esp. good for the French Revolution; many editions); Gordon Craig, Europe 1815-1914 (old, but still good); E.J. Hobsbawm [1917], The Age of Revolution (1962); the Norton History of Modern Europe paperback series: Charles Breunig and Matthew Levinger, The Revolutionary Era 1789-1850 and Norman Rich, The Age of Nationalism 1850-90--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. (No need to include the articles.) 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. All books will be available for purchase at the bookstore, except for those few that are either out of print and unobtainable, or are not yet published and unobtainable. Xeroxed copies will be distributed of these. Similarly, xeroxes of the assigned articles will be distributed. A useful source for the study of nationalism is the website: www.nationalismproject.org which you should consult for further bibliography. |
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| 275B.002 - | Koziol | |
| Tues 2-5 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39633 | |
| Description now available! | ||
| An introduction to the historiography of medieval Europe, emphasizing breadth of coverage and targeted to basic frames of knowledge. Readings include works on early and later medieval Christianity, Christianization, monasticism, and heresy; social and economic history; political and institutional history (Merovingians, Carolingians, France, England); literacy and popular culture. Special attention is also paid to the way to read books and take notes productively. Requirements: 1) two assignments on individual readings; 2) one or two broadly analytic, formal essays (of the sort one would find on a written orals exam); 3) a longer essay applying supplementary readings to the core readings. | ||
| 280B.001 - Cultural Histories of Modern Europe | Barrows | |
| Thurs 2-4 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39669 | |
| Updated August 14, 2007 | ||
| Description now available! | ||
| The seminar will examine a number of works focusing on the burgeoning field of cultural history in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe. We will read selected works on the new muses of photography, film and the radio, on painting and public art, on literacy, urban life, on domesticity and domestic display, on eating and drinking, on consumerism and advertising, on the "revolution of the senses," on leisure and sports, and on the cultures of war and peacetime in the twentieth century. Our geographical focus will be trained upon France, Great Britain, Germany and Italy. Students will be asked to share responsibility for class discussions and to write two essays, one a brief response to class readings, the other a review essay (15-20 pages) on a relevant subject of their choosing. | ||
| 280B.002 - TOPICS IN INTERDISCIPLINARY ITALIAN STUDIES: Literary Fascism? Italy and France from the 'fin-de-siécle' to the Holocaust | Staff | |
| Thurs 2-5 6331 Dwinelle | CCN: 39672 | |
| Also Listed as Italian Studies 248. Instructor: Simon Levis-Sullam | ||
| How did Fascism develop to become a European-wide phenomenon? What were its diverse national origins and characteristics? What cultural, ideological and intellectual tendencies contributed to its development and experience? Can more or less radical forms of Fascism be identified, particularly when compared to Nazism? These questions will guide our exploration of the history of Europe between the end of the Nineteenth century and the Second world war, with a particular focus on Italy and France, which gave birth respectively to the first openly awoved experience of Fascism, and to nationalistic and anti-Semitic movements often seen as precursors to Fascism. A particular emphasis will be placed on cultures, literatures and ideas, and the mutual influence between national contexts. We will move, in France, from the Dreyfus Affaire and the 'Action Française', to writers such as Drieu La Rochelle and Céline, to governments such as the Vichy regime. In Italy, we will proceed from D'Annunzio to the 'squadrismo', from Mussolini and the intellectuals of the Fascist regime, to the Salo Republic of 1943-45. | ||
| 280B.003 - The Jews of Early Modern Europe | Efron | |
| Mon 10-12 2303 Dwinelle | CCN: 39675 | |
| This course examines Jewish culture, society, and politics in the formative period from the Spanish Expulsion in 1492 to legal emancipation in 1791. During this time, the Jewish people began make the enormously complex transition from medievalism to modernity. Topics to be surveyed include the expulsion from Spain, the religious, intellectual, and socio-economic dimensions of Sephardic dispersion, life under Islam, the impact of the Reformation, Counter-Reformation, messianism, the rise of the Court Jews as well as those on the margins, women's lives, the social and religious life of Polish Jewry, the French Revolution and the Haskalah in Central Europe. | ||
| 280B.004 - Luther and his Enemies | Lehmann | |
| Tues 2-4 3104 Dwinelle | CCN: 39678 | |
| From the beginning, Martin Luther was convinced that his reform movement was threatened by many enemies who were determined to destroy him: first and foremost he feared the pope and the devil; then religious fanatics, Anabaptists and rebellious peasants; also rival reformers like Zwingli and rival humanists like Erasmus; and last not least the Turks, the Jews and to the very end the pope as Antichrist. It is the aim of this seminar to distinguish between real enemies of Luther and enemies Luther imagined, and to find out how Luther's obsessive fear of these enemies gave a distinct profile to the Protestant Reformation. Although Luther's texts have been translated into English, participants should have a sound knowledge of German. | ||
| 280B.005 - How to get from Modern Science to Modern Politics: Science, Enlightenment Culture and Politics in 18th Century France and Germany | Elm-V | |
| Wed 4-6 2505 Tolman | CCN: 39680 | |
| Veit Elm is interested in the role of religion in early modern and modern European culture. His principal area of research is the European Enlightenment which he has studied from the perspective of its heroes and of their enemies in the Christian Churches. He received his doctorate from the Free University Berlin, was a member of the Historical School of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and has held teaching positions at the Free University, the University of Bielefeld and Princeton University. He is currently affiliated with the Research Center on the European Enlightenment at Potsdam (Germany), where he is working on a book on Voltaire’s approach to history. | ||
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The idea that the progress of the new sciences which emerged from the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century would eventually lead to the substitution of premodern, confession-based politics by modern, science-based political systems was a central element of Enlightenment philosophy and, thanks to permanent revisions, remained at the core of political and historiographical modernism throughout the 19th and 20th century. The history of politics from the early Enlightenment up to 19th century Neoconfessionalism demonstrates, however, that the collapse of the Christian monarchy in France and the rapid succession of political systems which claimed to put Enlightenment thought into practice was an exception. In the great majority of European states, modern science and Enlightenment culture had been successfully integrated into institutional frameworks, which had their origins in early modern confessionalism. The course will introduce the most influential theoretical approaches to the analysis of the interrelation between 18th century science and politics. Its main objective is to give an outline of the development of the natural and social sciences in 18th century France and Germany and to compare the different forms of institutionalization and popularization of science in France and the leading German states. The course will address topics such as the implementation of economic theory in France, Prussia and Austria and Voltaire's attempt to introduce king Frederic II. of Prussia to Newtonian physics. The main emphasis will be on the role of science in French and German literary and philosophical discourse and their respective contribution to the formation of a science-based political culture. Participants will be required to give two seminar presentations and to write two short (3-5 page) and one longer (15-20 page) paper. |
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| 280B.006 - | Slezkine | |
| Thurs 4-6 2505 Tolman | CCN: 39681 | |
| The landmarks of Soviet historiography from Leon Trotsky to the latest academic fad, in loose chronological order. Weekly book reviews, no papers. | ||
| 280B.007 - From Empire to Nation-State: The Ottoman-Turkish Transition | Astourian | |
| Thurs 12-2 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39684 | |
| Updated September 6, 2007 | ||
| Note new schedule! Description now available! | ||
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As its title indicates, this seminar will explore the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the modern Turkish state. The readings dwell upon the period stretching from the 1890s to the 1930s, although some of them also deal with earlier and later periods. Most of our readings are not confined to the treatment of any particular area of the Empire, but a few of them concentrate on interethnic relations and minorities in the geographic area of modern Turkey. The seminar emphasizes political and cultural history, even though other types of historiography are not neglected. Our attention will focus on two main themes: first, the processes involved in the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire; second, the the issue of continuity, or radical discontinuity, between the regime and ideology of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP, or "Young Turks") and the Kemalist republic that emerged on the ashes of the Ottoman Empire. In order to discuss these two themes, our readings touch upon the following topics, among others: late Ottoman culture and elites; CUP revolutionary ideology and bourgeois (or military?) revolution; minority/majority nationalisms in an imperial setting; World War I and the ethnocultural homogenization of Anatolia through demographic engineering, including massive resettlement, ethnic cleansing, and genocide; charismatic leadership, "revolution from above," and the founding of modern Turkey; authoritarian corporatism, "secularism," and modernization. Reading knowledge of French, German, or Turkish would be useful, but is not required. Students will be asked to give seminar presentations and are expected to participate vigorously in class discussions. Two short analytical essays of about five pages will be due in the course of the semester and a longer paper of at least twenty pages at its end. Students can reach me at astour@berkeley.edu <mailto:astour@berkeley.edu>. |
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| 280B.008 - Religion and Political Cultures in Early Modern Europe | Ocker | |
| Fri 9:40am -12:30pm GTU (2465 LeConte Ave) | CCN: 39687 | |
| Co-instructor: Gabriele Haug-Moritz Please contact Chris Ocker for more information: ocker@sfts.edu. The first meeting of the seminar is 7 September (the GTU semester begins 4 September). | ||
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This graduate seminar will examine religion and political cultures in early modern Europe, including the late medieval background, political theology, the religious controversy over Martin Luther, political iconography and propaganda, and the comparison of western and central European states, court ceremony, etc. Sources in English translation, but reading in other European languages for those willing and able. For the month of September, the seminar will be led by Gabriele Haug-Moritz, Professor of History at the University of Graz, Austria, and visiting Professor at the GTU, and will focus on political iconography during the Protestant Reformation. The seminar will also include basic introduction to sources and methods in the history of early modern religions. Students will be expected to produce a research paper (20-30 pages) on a historical subject chosen in consultation with the professor. Students will be expected to produce a research paper (20-30 pages) on a historical subject chosen in consultation with the professor(GTU students taking the course for 3 units of credit) or such a term paper and, mid-semester, an additional shorter paper (10-20 pages) on a different topic (Cal students taking the course for 4 units of credit). Auditors are also welcome. Christopher Ocker is professor of history at the Graduate Theological Union and the San Francisco Theological Seminary. He has written Church Robbers and Reformers in Germany, 1525-1547 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2006), Biblical Poetics before Humanism and Reformation (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Johannes Klenkok: A Friar's Life, c. 1310-1374 (American Philosophical Society, 1992), and articles on friars, Jews, biblical interpretation, religious authority, and poverty in late medieval Central Europe. Gabriele Haug-Moritz is professor of early modern history at the University of Graz and the author of Der Schamlkaldische Bund, 1530-1541/42 (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Weinbrenner, 2002) and many articles on the politics of the Holy Roman Empire in the sixteenth century. |
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| 285B.001 - Topics in Twentieth Century International History | Adamthwaite | |
| Wed 2-4 3104 Dwinelle | CCN: 39746 | |
| This seminar is intended for those who wish to research an archival-based project (30-40 pages) on an aspect of twentieth century international history, especially since 1945. International history covers inter-state relations, transnational influences and movements and international organizations. | ||
Latin America |
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| 275E.001 - Modern Latin America: Histories and Historiographies | Healey | |
| Tues 4-6 2227 Dwinelle | CCN: 39648 | |
| Updated August 25, 2007 | ||
| Description now available. | ||
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This seminar is an introduction to the major issues in the history of modern Latin America. It is intended both as a broad survey and as a solid beginning for future reading, thinking, and research. Organized broadly around the intertwined transformations of citizens, markets and states from 1800 to the present, this class will explore a range of works, from classics to recent landmarks. Our focus will be on how social history has changed our ways of thinking about Latin America's past and modernity, revisiting older questions and exploring new frameworks. It is worth noting at the outset that we are taking a very inclusive definition of social history here, in keeping with the trajectory of the field in Latin America, where "the social" has included work that could also be classed as political, economic, labor, urban, intellectual, and more recently cultural and environmental history. Social history in Latin America has also been deeply engaged with politics from the beginning, perhaps in contrast with social history elsewherealthough the terms and tools of that engagement have changed dramatically over time. Some themes addressed will include: the contested, erratic, surprising, and perhaps dependent history of Latin American capitalism; the contours and lineages of that frail Leviathan, the Latin American states; the varied expressions of cultural nationalism; the central and shifting place of race in the making of citizens and nations; the environment as a key site, constraint, and even event in shaping historical outcomes; the theoretical challenge and empirical frustrations of gender as a category of analysis; and the promise and limits of transnational approaches to history. We will be particularly interested in current trends, the rise and fall of particular approaches, and a broad sense of where the most interesting recent work is being done. Assignments include two 5 page papers, one 10 page paper, and two sets of discussion questions. |
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| 280E.001 - Popular Culture in Latin America | Lewin | |
| Wed 4-6 14 Haviland | CCN: 39708 | |
| What is popular culture? In Latin America? How can popular culture best be studied from a historical perspective? What are the important questions to be asked? What are the best sources for the historian to use in studying popular culture? And what are their limitations as well as their advantages? How does history draw creatively on complementary disciplines for both theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of popular culture? This seminar will attempt to answer these questions by considering broad areas of popular culture in Latin America, spanning the colonial period through the twentieth century: popular religion, oral tradition, carnival & national dance-song, art, and film. Thematically, discussions will focus on authorship, audience, and the construction of national identity. Readings will emphasize Mexico and Brazil, with secondary attention to Cuba and Argentina. Reading knowledge of Spanish and/or Portuguese is useful but not required. | ||
Methodology |
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| 283 - Historical Method and Theory | Jay | |
| Mon 2-4 2227 Dwinelle | CCN: 39741 | |
| A detailed description is forthcoming. Please check back. | ||
Science |
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| 280S.001 - Drugs in World History | Osseo-Asare | |
| Wed 2-4 108 Wheeler | CCN: 39735 | |
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| Note new room! | ||
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The field of drug history allows us to learn about societies through their shifting relationships to pharmacological substances. In this seminar, we will focus on the multiple histories of major drugs including: Opium, Cocaine, Oral Contraceptives, Khat, Kola, and Viagra. We will trace stories of each substance across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas using articles, historical texts, novels and films. Seminar participants will gain a comparative perspective on how societies regulate, discover, test, and market legal and illegal drugs over time, and how these multiple approaches overlap and inform one another. We will emphasize new research in history of medicine, anthropology, film studies, and public policy that suggests a theoretical framework for further investigations. |
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| 285S.001 - Intellectuals, Institutions, and the Modern University | Carson | |
| Wed 12-2 108 Wheeler | CCN: 39774 | |
| This research seminar is designed for students interested the construction of the modern academic intellectual since the mid-19th century. It puts some emphasis on scientists, but by no means exclusively, and it will particularly explore ways that individuals are embedded in and shaped by institutional contexts. The seminar's default context will be the modern university, wherever it is found; but other broadly academic contexts are very welcome, such as museums, think tanks, extra-university research institutes, and so on. Along with producing the standard piece of original historical research, students will be expected to critique each others' papers and give a final presentation. | ||
| 290.001 - Historical Colloquium: History of Science | Carson | |
| M 4-6 279 Dwinelle | CCN: 39780 | |
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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 - Introduction to the Literature of American History (to the Civil War) | Peterson | |
| Tues 10-12 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39642 | |
| This course introduces graduate students to classic and current texts in early American history. Course requirements include in-class presentations, abstracts, reviews, and review essays about the assigned readings. | ||
| 280D.001 - | Klein | |
| Updated August 19, 2007 | ||
| This course has been cancelled. Professor Klein is teaching a 285D this semester. | ||
| 285D.001 - City Life | Henkin | |
| Wed 12-2 3104 Dwinelle | CCN: 39756 | |
| This writing workshop is open to all students pursuing research topics in urban history (very broadly defined). All times and places are appropriate, but the instructor will be a more useful resource for topics located in the North America since 1750. Class meetings will focus entirely on the writing process. | ||
| 285D.002 - Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States | Gjerde | |
| Thurs 2-4 107 Mulford | CCN: 39759 | |
| Updated July 10, 2007 | ||
| Note new schedule. Enrollment is by instructor approval only. Please contact Professor Gjerde at gjerde@berkeley.edu | ||
| This seminar will invite students to conduct research on some topic of immigration to and ethnicity in the United States. Issues that might be the basis for research include patterns of migration and migration networks; ethnicization, pluralism, and assimilation; immigration law; gender, immigration, and ethnicity; nativism and inter-ethnic conflict; and religion and ethnicity. The first few weeks of the seminar will include common reading and discussion of a variety of approaches to the study of immigration and ethnicity. | ||
| 285D.003 - American Intellectual and Cultural History in the 20th Century | Klein | |
| Thurs 4-6 214 Haviland | CCN: 39761 | |
| This is a research seminar for students working in cultural and intellectual history. Each student will produce a paper of thirty to forty pages in length (not including annotation, illustrations, etc.) Each student will also be responsible for brief presentations of his or her own work, and reviews of the work of the other students. | ||
Related Interest |
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| UCSF 201A - Disease and the Social Order from the Black Death to SARS | ||
| Fri 11-1 3333 California St., S.F. | ||
| Fall Term Courses at UCSF begin week of September 17 and end on November 30th, 2007, the last day of Exams. For information on these UCSF History courses, contact the Director of Graduate Studies, 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/programs/exchange.shtml for detailed instructions. | ||
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Prerequisites: None. Instructor: Dorothy Porter The course explores the comparative impact of disease upon European and North American societies. It will concentrate on the historical junctures at which diseases occurred; unravel the various levels of meaning which surrounded them in terms of their social, moral, and political interpretations; and analyze the patterns of response to them and discuss their historical consequences. |
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| UCSF 200A - Introduction to History of Health Sciences I | ||
| Tues 10-12 3333 California St., S.F. | ||
| Fall Term Courses at UCSF begin week of September 17 and end on November 30th, 2007, the last day of Exams. For information on these UCSF History courses, contact the Director of Graduate Studies, 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/programs/exchange.shtml for detailed instructions. | ||
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Instructor: John Tercier General survey chronologically arranged from ancient times to 1800, with the primary focus on the Western world. This course presents the broad conceptual developments that in each period influenced the evolution of medical knowledge, the promotion of professional activities, and the experiences of illness and health. Note: This course is part of a three-course sequence (fall-winter-spring). The fall course is a prerequisite for the winter course (Introduction to the History of Health Sciences II, 1800-2000), and both are prerequisites for the spring course (Methods in the History of Health Sciences). |
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| 200X - The Bancroft Library Press Room Course: "The Hand Printed Book in its Historical Context" | Ferriss | |
| Fri 1-5 Off Campus | ||
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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 | Candida-Smith | |
| Fri 12-2 136 Barrows | CCN: 39903 | |
| 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. | ||
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| 296.001 - Dissertation and Research Writing | ||
| CCN: 39792 | ||
| 298.001 - Employment Credits | ||
| CCN: 39795 | ||
| 601.001 - M.A. Preparation | ||
| CCN: 39906 | ||
| 602.001 - Ph.D. Orals Preparation | ||
| CCN: 39909 | ||