Graduate Course Descriptions
Fall 2008
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Ancient |
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| 280A.001 - Topics in Ancient History: History and Historiography - Emperor Julian, aka the Apostate | Elm | |
| Thurs 12-2 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39591 | |
| Also listed as 285A | ||
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Literary engagement with emperor Julian, by historians as well as other writers, began the moment Julian became sole ruler in 361 and it has continued without interruption until today. Among the reasons for this continuous and vigorously conducted engagement with this emperor are the fact that he encapsulates many of the changes then affecting the Roman empire as a whole: military engagements on the Western as well as Eastern frontier, financial reforms, shifts in urban administration and the transfer of religious affiliation from one set of gods to another God. This course will focus on crucial turning points in the historiographic "estimation" of Julian, primarily in the West (his Byzantine reception remains severely understudied!), beginning with Lorenzo de'Medici. We will then focus on his own literary legacy and that of his direct contemporaries in order to gain insights into the emperor and his role as seen by these late Roman contemporaries. Assignments are in-class presentations and a substantial research paper. |
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| 285A.001 - | Elm | |
| CCN: 39671 | ||
Asia |
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| 275F.001 - Chinese Popular Culture | Johnson | |
| This course has been CANCELLED. | ||
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This seminar will provide an introduction to important scholarship in western languages on the symbolic world of premodern Chinese villagers and its social, economic, and political context. The main emphasis will fall on local religion broadly defined, including ritual, scripture, temple festivals, and the social organizations (including multi-village alliances) that supported them, but we will also look at topics such as local opera, architecture and material culture, folk technology and so on, depending on the interests of the students. We will read important work on analogous topics in European history when appropriate, as well as influential earlier European works on Chinese non-elite culture. Brief introductions to important Chinese sources and recent scholarship on the topics of the seminar will be provided from time to time. |
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| 275F.002 - Social Science Theories and the Writing of Late Imperial and Modern Chinese History | Yeh | |
| Mon 2-5 Numata Room, 2223 Fulton, 6th Floor | CCN: 39582 | |
| Updated August 28, 2008 | ||
| To make up for the Labor Day holiday, the First Meeting of this Seminar will take place on Wednesday, September 3, from 6:00 to 7:30, in the Numata Room at the Institute of East Asian Studies (6th floor, 2223 Fulton Street). Thereafter regular seminar schedule (2:00-5:00 p.m.) commences on Monday, September 15, in the Numata Room." | ||
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In this course we review English-language historiography on Chinese history 16th-20th centuries that informed Western understanding during the Cold War. Readings are organized to shed light on Western representations of the Qing Empire, Sino-Western encounters in the 19th century, Chinese socio-intellectual transformations and the making of the Chinese nation-state, Han as well as non-Han, in the 20th century. Special attention will be paid to social science theories that inform the writing of late imperial and modern Chinese histories. Seminar participants are expected to read two or more books each week. Each session will be led by a student who formulates the lead questions. The seminar aims to train empirical analysis, historical thinking and critical engagement. Course requirements include weekly one-page reports, regular seminar participation, two essays of 5 pages each, and a final bibliographical paper of about 15 pages. Discussion leaders are expected to read beyond the required list. All students are expected to develop a comfortable familiarity with social science theories that inform the writing of modern Chinese history. This seminar is designed to meet the Master's requirements in the field of Modern Chinese History. |
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| 275F.003 - Topics in Premodern Japanese History | Berry | |
| Wed 3-5 2303 Dwinelle | CCN: 39579 | |
| We shall concentrate on major issues in Japan's history prior to 1600. (For example: the economic foundations of the classical and medieval states; city building and urban culture; the politics of violence; foreign encounter.) I shall be responsive, however, to the needs and interests of the students involved (including auditors) by building particular units around particular requests (including methodology and theory). | ||
| 280F.001 - Power, Property, and Protest: Social Transformations in the Middle East from the Imperial to the Colonial Eras | Doumani | |
| Wed 10-12 2303 Dwinelle | CCN: 39636 | |
| Also listed as 285F.002 | ||
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This combined reading/research graduate seminar will focus on the social history, broadly defined, of the early modern and modern Middle East. The overall theme is the relationship between state power, property regimes, and social and cultural movements. The class will meet, as a whole, for the first four to six weeks, then will split up into the reading and research parts. The reading part of the course will critically analyze recent works of scholarship that seek to interrupt the historical narratives generated by the big ideologies --Neo-Orientalism, Nationalism, and Islamicism—through deeply research case studies of specific social groups, times periods, places, and institutions. We will discuss the intellectual and political agendas of these works, the sources and research methodologies they draw on, and how they have been influenced by theoretical paradigms generated in other disciplines (especially sociology, anthropology, political science, and comparative literature). We will also ask about the extent to which these works go beyond exposing the messiness and contingency of the past in order to suggest new frameworks and research agendas for understanding the emergence of the Modern Middle East. Students enrolled in this part of the course are expected to write brief review essays and a substantive historiographical paper. Students enrolled in the research part of this course are expected to formulate and complete an original research project based on primary sources in the languages of the region. I will work with these students on an individual basis to discuss project proposals, progress reports, and provide training in working with a variety of archives. |
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| 280F.002 - History of the Person in South Asia | Irschick | |
| Tues 2-4 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39639 | |
| In this course we will look at the way in which the history of the person has been produced South Asia. We will look at the way in which discontinuities and thresholds have helped to shape the South Asian individual that we think we know. We will read Gayatri Reddi's book about Hijra identity in South India called With Respect to Sex. We will then turn to Ramya Sreenivasan's The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen, a book about caste and gender seen historically. In our next book, Betty Joseph's Reading the East India Company, 1720-1840, Joseph says that "where women are all but absent, we may still see their presence as politically interested figurations." We will also read two books about self and person in Pakistan. They are Farhat Moazam's Bioethics and Organ Transplantation in a Muslim Society, a book about ethnography and religion and Laura Ring's Zenana: Everyday Peace in a Karachi Apartment. Finally, we will read Atreyee Sen's Shiv Sena Women, a book about violence and communalism in a Bombay slum. As part of our work we will read theoretical materials on sexuality and the technology of the self. If we have time, we will read Ayesha Jalal's new book on jihad in South Asia. | ||
| 280F.003 - Chang | Nylan | |
| Thurs 4-6 2303 Dwinelle | CCN: 39642 | |
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| Also listed as 285F | ||
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This course seeks to accomplish a goal that Sinology rarely even aims for when treating the classical era: to provide a "thick description" of a time and place of great significance in Chinese history. Thanks not only to the received literature, but also recently excavated texts, we now have much better source materials with which to study the era of Liu Xiang, Jing Fang, Liu Xin, and Yang Xiong. Arguably, theirs was the age that advanced the first substantive arguments in favor of classical learning as a self-conscious reflection on the failures of expansionist policies of Han Wudi (r. 141-87 BCE). Topics to be discussed in relation to the period from ca. 26 BCE-6 BCE, the latter the year when Liu Xiang completes his "Seven Summaries" catalogue for the imperial library, include the following: palace architecture and the imperial libraries, the city as capital for the empire; the imperial mausolea and sacrifices; communication systems linking the capital with the provinces and frontiers; the vogue for things foreign; economic policies; changing tastes in literary and visual rhetoric. Readings in the received literature will be taken not only from the standard histories, but also from works that are less often consulted, such as the (Qian) Hanji of Xun Yue; the Sanfu huangtu; the Hanguan yi, and two collectanea, Yan Kejun's Quan Han wen , and Ma Guohan's Yuhan shan fangji yishu. A number of secondary works in English to be consulted, as well, and two works in French: Marc Kalinowski's "La production des manuscrits dans la Chine ancienne: Une approche codicologique de la bibliotheque de Mawangdui," Asiatische Studien/Etudes Asiatiques 57 (2003.4), 849-80; and Jean-Pierre Drège, Les Bibliotheques en Chines au temps des manuscrits (jusqu'au Xe siecle). This seminar course can be offered simultaneously at several levels (280, 283, 285); depending on the needs of the graduate students attending, different assignments will be made, allowing for full participation by students operating at different levels of Chinese (modern and classical) or English. Each History graduate student specializing in Chinese who has attained a sufficiently advanced level will also be responsible for producing a full summary of one essay from Japanese, Germany, or French. Students able to work only in English are welcome to take the course, as there are now sufficient materials in English for them to work upon. |
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| 280F.004 - | Islamoglu | |
| Updated April 23, 2008 | ||
| This seminar will now be offered in Spring 2009. | ||
| 285F.001 - Chang'an 26 BCE | Nylan | |
| CCN: 39693 | ||
| Also listed as 280F.004 | ||
| Course details and description are posted under the 280F listing. | ||
| 285F.002 - | Doumani | |
| CCN: 39696 | ||
| Course details and description are posted under the 280F listing. | ||
Britain |
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| 280C.001 - Early Modern England | Shagan | |
| Tues 2-4 2227 Dwinelle | CCN: 39618 | |
| This course introduces graduate students to the major issues and debates of English history from roughly 1500-1700. Major topics will include: the English Reformation; puritanism; the social order; gender and sexuality; the causes of the English Civil War; sectarian radicalism; the Glorious Revolution. While some of our time will be spent on relatively traditional political history, we will also consider issues of social and cultural change, and the course is intended to be of interest both to historians and to literary critics. | ||
| 280U.001 - Britain and Empire | Metcalf & Vernon | |
| CCN: 39663 | ||
| Also listed as 285U | ||
| Course details and description posted under the comparative listing. | ||
Comparative |
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| 280U.001 - Britain and Empire | Metcalf & Vernon | |
| Thurs 2-5 2227 Dwinelle | CCN: 39663 | |
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This course will explore the historical development of the modern British empire. Particular attention will be paid to questions of the political economy of empire, the nature of the imperial state, the rise of nationalist and internationalist critiques of empire and the process of decolonization. The class will be open to students who wish to write a 285 paper around one of these areas. |
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| 285U.001 - Britain and Empire | Metcalf & Vernon | |
| CCN: 39708 | ||
| Course details and description posted under the 280U listing. | ||
Europe |
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| 275B.001 - Introduction to Late Modern European History | Adamthwaite | |
| Wed 10-12 2227 Dwinelle | CCN: 39555 | |
| This seminar explores themes in the history of Europe since the 1890s. Main background reading is Mark Mazower's Europe’s Twentieth Century: Dark Continent . Writing assignments: two papers (7-10 pages), together with brief oral presentations/response papers in class. | ||
| 275B.002 - Early Modern Europe | Dandelet | |
| Mon 10-12 2227 Dwinelle | CCN: 39558 | |
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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 - Medieval Italy: An Introduction to the Sources and Historiography | Miller | |
| Thurs 2-4 | CCN: 39594 | |
| Course details and description are posted under the Medieval listing. | ||
| 280B.002 - Family, Civil Society and the State in Italy, Europe and the United States, 1917-1968 | Staff | |
| Tues 2-5 6331 Dwinelle | CCN: 39597 | |
| Also listed as Italian 248.001. Taught by Professor Ginsborg | ||
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The course seeks to build up a comparative framework of national case studies, adopting as its methodology the analysis of interactions between families, civil society and the state. While there are now a plethora of studies which concentrate on civil society-state relations, and very many which treat of the relationship between states and families (above all in the realm of public policy), there are very few which deal with family-civil society relations, and even fewer which try to keep all three subjects (family, civil society and state) in the forefront of their explanatory apparatus of the history of a single country. The core case study is Italy, during the Fascist and the post-war democratic republican period. We will be looking to compare Italy with other national experiences, both under dictatorship and democracy. Thus the first half of the course will seek to compare Fascism with Nazism and Stalinism; and the second will look at Italian, British and American democracy after the second World War. The course will finish by examining 1968 in the light of the methodology briefly outlined above. Course requirements: Students are expected to attend and participate regularly, and write a research paper of 6000-7500 words (25-30 pages). |
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| 280B.004 - The Jewish People Between the World Wars | Efron | |
| Thurs 2-4 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39603 | |
| Updated June 16, 2008 | ||
| Co-instructor for this course is Professor Michael Brenner of the University of Munich. Also listed as 285B. NOTE NEW SCHEDULE. DESCRIPTION NOW AVAILABLE. | ||
| The sociologist Eva Reichmann once described the interwar period as it pertained to Jews as a "rehearsal for destruction." Indeed, World War I and its aftermath shook Jewish society to the core. Jews in eastern Europe suffered violence and communal devastation; Russian Jews saw personal liberties increase with the Bolshevik Revolution but religious and communal life assaulted; Jews in central and western Europe experienced the intensification of antisemitism both during and after the war. In Palestine, by contrast, the fledgling yet fragile Yishuv was buoyed by the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and during the British Mandate, the institutions of (future) statehood were forged. Most Jews, however, lived in Europe, which will be the focus, but not exclusively so, of this course. And as difficult as life became in the interwar period, most Jews did not consider their age as a "rehearsal for destruction." Instead, inspired by nationalism and spiritual revival, Jews in the interwar period created vibrant, modern Jewish cultures that bespoke self-confidence and faith in the future. | ||
| 280B.005 - Topics in the Historiography of Modern East Central Europe | Connelly | |
| Tues 4-6 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39606 | |
| Updated June 25, 2008 | ||
| Considers debates central to the study of modern East Central Europe: causes and consequences of economic backwardness, roots of national chauvinism and anti-Semitism, the dynamics of Nazi racism, the formation and limits of totalitarian rule, constitution and resuscitation of civil societies, post-Communist transformations, and the reemergence of nationalism. | ||
| 280C.001 - Early Modern England | Shagan | |
| Tues 2-4 | CCN: 39618 | |
| Course details and description posted under Britain listing. | ||
| 285B.001 - Research Topics in Soviet History | Slezkine | |
| Wed 4-6 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39672 | |
| After some background reading on 20th-century Russia, students will concentrate on individual research projects chosen in consultation with the instructor. All papers will be discussed in class. Reading knowledge of Russian is required. | ||
| 285B.002 - Jewish Culture in Interwar Europe | Efron | |
| Thurs 10-12 | CCN: 39675 | |
| Co-instructor for this course is Professor Michael Brenner of the University of Munich. Also listed as 280B.004 | ||
| Course details and description are posted under the 280B listing. | ||
Latin America |
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| 280E.001 - Race and Nation in Modern Latin America | Healey | |
| Tues 10-12 2227 Dwinelle | CCN: 39630 | |
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This course is a graduate introduction to race and nation in modern Latin America. We will cover topics from the Conquest to the present (although primarily post-independence), from colonial African slavery to contemporary indigenous activism, and from mass immigration to radical anti-colonial insurrection. Our primary focus is on peoples of African and Indian descent —the majority of Latin Americans— and this will lead us to examine closely questions of racial mixture, cultural exchange, and national identity. Set within the comparative context of the Atlantic World, this course will trace familiar themes —freedom and slavery, autonomy and integration, race and nation, citizenship and inequality— across the often-unfamiliar terrain of colonial and modern Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, Mexico and Peru. We will trace dramatic differences and surprising parallels between the histories of these nations, developing both a comparative approach to thinking about race and, perhaps, a critique of the limits of comparison. While this seminar is intended primarily for students working on Latin America, and assumes some grounding in the basic historiography of the region, those working on other areas or in other disciplines are very welcome. The fundamental questions of this course are about the relationship between race, identity and power over several centuries in diverse national contexts. We will be reading classic analyses and cutting-edge scholarship to assess how these questions have been answered, and to try to develop some answers ourselves. Grading will be based on class participation and three short (5-7 page) papers. A tentative reading list will be available in May. Feel free to direct any questions to Mark.healey@berkeley.edu |
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| 280E.002 - Brazilian Historiography | Lewin | |
| Wed 2-4 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39633 | |
| A survey of major themes in Brazilian history from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, this seminar examines historiographic debates and issues with special attention to revisionist works. Selected themes include early settlement, colonial society, African slavery, religion, intellectual thought, coffee economy, transition to a republic, twentieth-century race relations, and popular culture. Written work consists of three short essays plus oral participation. Required readings are in English, with the option of using works in Portuguese (including Portuguese language credit, if needed). Anyone wishing to that this course for H275E credit may do so by notifying the instructor. | ||
Medieval |
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| 280B.001 - Medieval Italy: An Introduction to the Sources and Historiography | Miller | |
| Thurs 2-4 2303 Dwinelle | CCN: 39594 | |
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This seminar is designed to introduce graduate students to the study of Italy during the Middle Ages (300-1400). To what extent was its history distinctive, particularly in comparison to the development of medieval England and France? The seminar will focus on characteristic debates and institutions: the survival of Roman institutions and the impact of the Lombard invasions; the phenomenon of "incastellamento"; the origins of the communes and the development of urban governing institutions; the rise of the "signori"; the establishment of the Norman kingdom in the south; the development of the papal state. Readings will be in English, Italian, and French (students must have a reading knowledge of either Italian or French to enroll). |
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Methodology |
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| 283.001 - Historical Method and Theory | deVries | |
| Wed 12-2 2227 Dwinelle | CCN: 39666 | |
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Consider the following: The past is a foreign country, irretrievably lost to us. The past is not dead. It's not even past. The function of history is to assist us in honoring our dead. History is what historians write. It does not exist independently. History is the child of narrative. History is defined by its type of discourse rather than its object of study. The historian's task is "to participate positively in the liberation of the present from the burden of history." What does, and what can, history as an academic discipline claim to do? The seminar will examine this question by considering both the claims made by historians (epistemological, philosophical) and the practices of historians (historiographical, methodological). In doing so, we will not go back to Herodotus and Thucydides, or even to Burckhardt and Ranke, but will focus primarily on movements within history of the past fifty years. Core readings will include: Allan Megill, Historical Knowledge, Historical Error. A Contemporary Guide to Practice (University of Chicago Press, 2007). Anthony Molho and Gordon S. Wood, eds., Imagined Histories. American Historians Interpret the Past (Princeton University Press, 1998). Martha Howell and Walter Prevenier, From Reliable Sources. An Introduction to Historical Methods (Cornell University Press, 2001). Penelope J. Corfield, Time and the Shape of History (Yale University Press, 2007). In addition, the course will explore a number of historical movements and methods, including: The Annales school, social science and counterfactual history, Marxian history, cultural history. Students will prepare two papers. Short paper (5-7 pages) Analysis of a controversy concerning the adequacy of an historian's work. The instructor will provide a list of possibilities; students may add to the list. Long paper (20 pages) Historiographical study of the work of an historian, or a group of historians, to be selected in consultation with the instructor. Issues and Problems in the Study of History. Topics: Counterfactual History Niall Ferguson, ed., Virtual History. Alternatives and Counterfactuals (Macmillan, 1997). Philip E. Tetlock, Richard Ned Lebow, and Geoffrey Parker, eds., Unmaking the West. 'What If' Scenarios That Rewrite World History (University of Michigan Press, 2006). "New Economic History" The Annales School Peter Burke, The French Historical Revolution. The Annales School 1929-89 (Stanford University Press, 1990). Marxian History Karl Marx, Selected Writings E. P. Thompson, Eric Hobsbawm Postmodern History Michel de Certeau, The Writing of History (New York, 1988) Jonathan Clark, Our Shadowed Present. Modernism, Postmodernism, and History (Stanford University Press, 2003). Time, Periods, and Direction in History. Did Martin Guerre Really Return? Natalie Z. Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre Robert Finley, "The Refashioning of Martin Guerre," American Historical Review 93 (1988), 553-71; Natalie Z. Davis, "On the Lame," American Historical Review 93 (1988), 572-603. |
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Science |
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| 290.001 - Historical Colloquium: History of Science | Staff | |
| M 4-6 | CCN: 39711 | |
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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 | |
| Mon 2-4 129 Barrows | CCN: 39567 | |
| 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 - U.S. Cultural and Intellectual Life in its International Dimensions | Candida-Smith | |
| Wed 4-6 2227 Dwinelle | CCN: 39620 | |
| This course explores the transnational contexts of United States cultural and intellectual history. Among the topics to be considered are the role of empire in shaping U.S. culture and institutions; immigration as a factor changing cultural and intellectual life; efforts within the U.S. to build or resist regional and global organizations; the role of the United States in the formation of global cultural markets; the interaction of political, social, and intellectual movements across borders; institutional, political, and cultural differences within the United States that shaped attitudes and actions in other parts of the world; the relation of what Joseph Nye has called "soft power" to U.S. military and economic expansion. In addition to shared readings, students will select an area of interest for deeper exploration and presentation to the class. | ||
| 280D.002 - U.S. Politics | Einhorn | |
| Thurs 12-2 2227 Dwinelle | CCN: 39621 | |
| Politics in an election year. Don't you think? It's been almost 20 years since leading political historians complained at great length about what, for them, was a novel sense of marginalization (and they did whine quite a bit). This seminar is for graduate students interested in reading more and less recent literature about the political history of the United States. We will examine some of the major historiographical turns and try to figure out the current state of play -- institutionalism? political economy? Something else? And how capacious should the terms "politics" and "political history" be, anyway? Ultimately, we will try to make some decisions, collective and individual, about the kinds of important next steps that can make good dissertation topics. We will move chronologically starting in the early/mid-19th century, though with plenty of time for the 20th. Still, we will stress influential historical writings more than particular historical events, not least since calling some events the important ones is the essence of historiographical decision-making. | ||
| 285D.001 - Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States | Gjerde | |
| Mon 10-12 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39684 | |
| 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.002 - American Modernity Revisited | McLennan | |
| Tues 12-2 3104 Dwinelle | CCN: 39687 | |
| This research seminar explores the making and unmaking of American modernity, with particular emphasis on law, culture, and politics. Students will be guided through the process of framing, researching, and writing an article-length paper on a topic of their choice (to be developed in consultation with the instructor). In the first few weeks of the semester we will orient ourselves in the article genre, chiefly by reading and critiquing some of the most innovative and influential article-length scholarship in the fields of legal, cultural, and political history. The rest of the semester (approximately twelve weeks) will be organized as a workshop. Students will frame and develop research topics, in consultation with the instructor and in conversation with the class, and write and workshop a prospectus, long draft, and final paper. You will also be required to attend a number of one-on-one meetings with the instructor. | ||
Related Interest |
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| UCSF 222 - Modern Medicines: The History of Pharmaceuticals | ||
| Wed 10-12 3333 California St., S.F. | ||
| Fall Term Course at UCSF. This course runs from September 16th to December 5. 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/programs/exchange.shtml for detailed instructions. | ||
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Instructor: Liz Watkins This course engages the growing body of scholarship on the history of pharmaceuticals and the expansion of the pharmaceutical enterprise in the 20th and 21st centuries. It will consider social, cultural, political, economic, and ethical issues raised by the development, regulation, marketing, prescription, and use of modern medicines. It will also explore the changing relationships between academia and industry, clinical practice and biomedical research, doctors and patients, health and disease. |
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| UCSF 221 - Biomedicine and Visual Culture | ||
| Tues 1-3 3333 California St., S.F. | ||
| Fall Term Course at UCSF. This course runs from September 16th to December 5. 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/programs/exchange.shtml for detailed instructions. | ||
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Instructors: Brian Dolan and John Tercier This course is a graduate-level elective for students in History of Health Sciences, Medical Anthropology, and Medical Sociology. Students in Medicine, Media Studies, and Cultural Studies might also find it of interest. The course aims to provide an understanding of visual practices and how they influence and, in turn, are influenced by contemporary medical technology, healthcare practice, and healthcare systems. Medical images and imaging, public health films, advertising, entertainment programming, and the internet will provide case studies for an interdisciplinary exploration of the ways in which the media has shaped attitudes toward the body, health, disease, and healthcare. |
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| 300.001 - Teaching History at the University | Sahlins | |
| Fri 10-12 20 Wheeler | CCN: 39834 | |
| This course, required of first time GSIs and open to all History GSIs, introduces graduate students to a variety of pedagogical theories and techniques 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: 39723 | ||
| 298.001 - Employment Credits | ||
| CCN: 39726 | ||
| 601.001 - M.A. Preparation | ||
| CCN: 39837 | ||
| 602.001 - Ph.D. Orals Preparation | ||
| CCN: 39840 | ||